Government e-petition for Public track in UK similar to Nurburgring

mick405 said:

Good idea. Would rather they were petitoned to cut the amount of duty they receive from fuel prices but hey ho.

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I acknowledge receipt of your circular sent in support of FairFuelUK.

“FairFuel” is wrong to suggest that “the Chancellor could have “reduced petrol and diesel tax and been no worse off in overall revenue “ unless, of course, it is suggested that the cancellation of the duty rise would have been preferable to an increase in personal allowance that will benefit some 24 million people. Alternatively, I suppose, he could have left the Working Tax and Child Tax proposals unrefined and disadvantaged all of the people that will now be better off as a result of his fine-tuning.

All budget decisions are a question of judgement and, as the Chancellor has made clear to those of us who have discussed this with him in person, the loss of £1.5 billion in revenue that could have been dissipated through oil price rises and consequent rises at the pumps did not seem like good value for money when compared with the assistance that he has been able to extend to low and middle income families and to pensioners (through the £140 single-tier payment) as an alternative. Faced with these arguments I believe that the Chancellor has made the correct judgement.

Yours ever
Sir Roger Gale, MP

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Thank you for your pre-Budget submission regarding fuel prices.

As a family man and former self-employed person myself, I understand that high world oil prices driving up the cost of fuel at the petrol pump are making life hard for households and businesses – especially small businesses.

You are absolutely right to raise the concerns that you have. Since the election, many of my colleagues and I have been pressing the case in our discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and I am pleased to report that the Government has listened.

That is why, despite the unprecedented financial constraints this Government is operating within, it has taken action in the last Budget and Autumn Statement to help by:

• cutting Fuel Duty by a penny per litre last year (approximately four pence per gallon);
• introducing a new Fair Fuel Stabiliser that ensures North Sea oil companies contribute more when oil prices are high;
• freezing Fuel Duty until August this year; and
• scrapping altogether a planned Fuel Duty rise in August inherited from the last Government.
Thanks to this action, worth more than £4 billion over four years, petrol and diesel are six pence per litre (or around 24 pence per gallon) cheaper today than they otherwise would have been under the last Government and by August, they will be 10 pence per litre (or about 40 pence per gallon) cheaper.

By the end of the year, the action the Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken means households will save £144 on filling up the average family car.

Please be assured that I will continue to do what I can to make the case for affordable fuel prices.

I am grateful for your having taken the time to contact me and please do not hesitate to get back in touch if I can be of further assistance on this or any other issue.

Yours sincerely




Henry Smith

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Thank you for acknowledging my message. At this point having personally invested a significant amount of time into the issue I feel that it be incumbent for us to leave the matter of 'circulars' aside.

Unfortunately it seems that this is where the government is going wrong. To have the thought process of 'we need to spend £1.5bn to make people happy, where can it come from and what should it go toward' is a disaster in the making. For the most part I am inclined to agree that the personal allowance, working tax and child tax proposals are of high priority... but to bring about suggestion that the debate is a choice between one source of income over another in fact misses the point of the CEBR findings entirely.

A 2.5 pence cut in fuel duty would create an estimated 175,000 jobs within 12 months. If the government insists on financial planning that consistently involves spending money it simply doesn't have, then there is a very strong argument that a rise in fuel duty will cause a catastrophic loss of jobs, thereby removing the source of 'income' by which Mr. Osborne plans to fund his other tax proposals (and I use the word "income" VERY loosely given the precarious nature of our nation's finances). If it wishes to continue spending in this way then the government needs to raise employment- real, private sector, money-earning economy-stimulating employment.

The simple fact of the matter is that the rise in the cost of fuel will ultimately affect the cost of everything in Britain- we are not just talking about a loss to professional drivers. The additional duty will impact the quality of transport services that are already struggling to meet demand, and everything from riding the bus to sending a parcel will be more expensive as well as less reliable and/or convenient for everyone.

I am quite upset by your attitude and approach to the issue. I do not profess that these decisions are simple, but do find it incredibly convenient that the decisions made propose changes that will leave the maximum number of voters better off in the short term. This approach has totally failed to address the £165+bn annual overspend that is slowly leading our country to a total financial collapse. We shan't likely be here to see it for ourselves, but it most certainly WILL happen to our children and our children's children.

Short-term perks will be short-lived. Right now our kids are born into debt- 'owing' £16,000+ before they have even opened their eyes for the first time. By the time they start work, the debt is well above £40,000. With respect that you have your own opinions, I am unable to see any justifications for your position that Mr. Osborne is making the correct proposals.

I am supporting a campaign which offers a realistic proposal to get our country's economy back on the mend. If you haven't yet done so, please actually read the CEBR report here http://fairfueluk.com/FairFuelUKCEBRreport.pdf

Regards,
Ben Palmer

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Spinner said:

Petition details:

Create a public race track similar to the Nurburgring in Germany in a deprived area of the UK.

Responsible department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The Nurburgring in Germany has been a roaring success for the region. Tourists come from far and wide to do a lap or two of the famous public racetrack. We propose that a similar road be opened in a deprived area in need of rejuvenation. This would be a good idea because it would be a centre for the public to explore speed in a safe environment, instead of on public roads causing harm to themselves and others. It would also bring automotive tourism to the area, and potentially would make money for the department through a toll system.

Anyone else keen on the idea, please sing up via the following link... https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/19328

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