So the UK Government has once again done very little about the ridiculousness that is our current fuel crisis. You might say that the word “crisis” is a little strong compared to recent years of blockades, go-slows and other such protests but in reality, we have not been out of a fuel crisis for the last 10 years!

I seem to recall that when I passed my driving test (in 2003) petrol was less than 80p/l – in fact it was: Petrol Prices. This excellent record of our being taken for granted by the Government shows spectacular rises in prices in 2000 (15p on the previous year), 2007 (16p) and perhaps most telling of the poor state of affairs in this country 2010 (21p on the previous year).

With not being a close advisor to the current clowns in charge of this country I cannot say for certain but you have to imagine some part of the ridiculous hikes in prices are down to “environmentalists” convincing us that CO2 emissions are causing global warming/killing the world/the root of all evil and that by increasing the cost of car travel, we’ll all use some of the spectacularly awful public transport on offer throughout the land.

If this global warming worry is the case, Britain, do you not think it would be wiser to try and enforce some of these outrageous prices/ideas on our big bully of a cousin from across the Atlantic? Given that their emissions levels are exponentially higher than ours? Or perhaps you could have a word with China, apparently the world’s new super power in air contamination. But no, you’re probably right, charge the minnow of a country we live in, do “our bit” and everything will be ok.

Or is the reality slightly more to do with oil? And greed.