Fair fuel for rural areas

“Rural Scotland “

A fresh campaign to bring fair fuel prices to rural Scotland are today seizing the opportunity to present to the new government the public’s opposition to extreme fuel prices.

The new Conservative / Lib Dem government are due to present an emergency budget on June 22.  The campaign has a strong base on Facebook – with over 800 supporters all calling for a fuel duty regulator or otherwise to give rural Scotland a level playing field with the mainland.

“Scotland’s concerns”

Fair fuel in the budget with be a huge test in Scotland for the new administration.

The campaign launched a petition for presentation to the government online (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fairfuelbudget/signatures)  which attracted 42 signatures within 30minutes of launch.  Due to the change of administration the Downing Street petition service is unavailable at present.  A paper copy will soon be available in outlets to compliment the online petition.

Campaigner Erica Macdonald said “it is really important that we all sign this petition and show the new government that we are really suffering from extreme fuel prices”.

“We can hope that they will implement fair fuel as part of their emergency budget.  They need to understand that in rural Scotland we need to use our cars more, and that we cannot keep being penalised for no good reason especially when they can fix it incredibly easily.”

“Lets hope, that this UK government listens to Scotland’s concerns on this issue”.

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