About Us

Vote With Your Wheels is about targeting those in control of the price we pay for fuel, the oil companies, the filling stations and the government.

The website has been designed by two like-minded individuals who are just like you, fed up with having to pay the ever increasing fuel prices with little or no return.

For many people in this country, getting to work cannot easily be achieved using public transport; for many employees working from home is not an option; freight usually has to travel by road and when was the last time you saw a dedicated cycle lane outside of our towns and cities?

Vote With Your Wheels is a website designed with you in mind, the vehicle owner. This site wants you to sign up, become a member and join us in our fight to reduce the duty paid over to the government and to achieve a reduced price for our fuel.

Sign up to Vote With Your Wheels today and we will keep you posted on all of efforts.

Throughout the last decade one subject that was guaranteed to cause a debate is the soaring price of fuel, as diesel and petrol continue to hit record highs.

The start of the decade and diesel was still cheaper than petrol, the sale of leaded fuel had been banned by the Clean Air Act 1996 for use in on-road vehicles, the use of Autogas, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, was taking hold, the average price for a litre of fuel was 73p and we had 13,000 filling stations to choose from.

Now, diesel is more expensive than petrol, sales of Autogas are static because the duty on it has increased faster than on other fuels, the average price of fuel is 119.9p, and we have only 9250 filling stations to choose from.

In 1999 the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, scrapped the fuel escalator introduced in the 90’s by the conservative government. This fuel escalator increased prices by 6% per year on top of inflation and whilst that scheme was arguably worse for the average vehicle owner than our current situation, we are now faced with increasing tax and fuel prices.

Two of the biggest oil firms, BP and Shell, are recording profits of over £7bn between them for the first three months of 2008 as a barrel of oil rises to over $120. And prices in the UK are rapidly heading towards an average of 114p per litre and with only about 5p of this going to the retailer, what happens to the rest of it? Approximately 66p fuel duty and VAT goes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Vote With Your Wheels are encouraging drivers to join in with our campaign to seek a fairer price for our fuel; the greater number of lobbyists in our group, voting with their wheels, will ensure that we can target oil companies to provide a realistic price for fuel and the Government to provide a realistic level of duty.