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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Another petition
Sep 30, 2011 Energy: costs ...but this time one that might make it.
A petition for a debate on fuel prices is over 99,000 votes - just a few hundred short of the level required to force a Commons debate.
Sign here.
Reader Comments (22)
A small error here! The level of 100,000 does not force a debate (sadly), it merely means that the relevant committee is supposed to consider making a recommendation that the government consider giving time for such a debate. Let noone be fooled into thinking that there is to be any more than the mildest genuflection in the direction of democracy!
I wonder how much more revenue 80mph will raise?
Signed. 157 to go.
And another
Signed awhile back.
now 100,000!
I am saddened, but not surprised, that only 601 people have signed the epetition to repeal the Climate Change Act:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/2035
Perhaps we will have to wait until the lights go out, and thousands starve......
Can we get rid of this noone thing. It is no one. Two words. Noone is a family name brought to prominence some time ago by the singer in Herman's Hermits. WUWT in comments is a particular offender but it does not need to cross the Atlantic.
Oh for Christs sake. I think we should try and persuade people by original thought rather than ponderous progress to a single arbitrary number that some gub'mint person said we should attain.
Huh? it means nothing...
The original "Humphrey" in the civil service who thought of this gobshite epetition idea must be constantly hugging his sides laughing at the emptiness of the idiots who keep wanking themselves off in public trying it out to no avail.
Roger: I signed one that now has a grand total of 12 signatures.
Everyone: maybe Noone will be fooled. Or not now he/she has been warned.
Leopard: it's either that or revolt. We don't do revolution. Hence petition. Whaddayou wanna do that beats it?
Yes we do it, but we don't shout about it like some showy cheesy nations ;)
Fantastic rhetoric, but failing that fantastic trousers.
jeebus...over 1000 people want to prevent frakking - I guess they don't pay fuel bills
It's early days yet with the prepare for colder winters ... take svensmark's work seriously, treat the cosmic ray hypothesis with respect and prepare for a possible colder spell or words to that effect ... petition.
Obviously, a cold winter might help the signatures come in ... now what's the likelihood of that?
@TLITB
"Trousers"????
O bugger!!
Now I suppose I'll get 6 months of porny spam.
FWIW (not much) I'd like to see some statutory instrument that prevented anything from being taxed (including duties and anything not part of the original price) more than 50%.
I admit to some self-interest, as a driver, drinker and occasional pipe-smoker, but it seems reasonable enough to me. Why should the treasury ever get more than the seller?
Yes. That's why I signed it.
Students
100703 now
Gah. Mealymouthed and washy-wishy.
Fuel costs are going up to fund Wind Farms. As are power costs. Until Huhne's Horrors are stopped, this kind of polite pusillanimous petition is pointless, or worse, posturing and pandering.
Piffle!
At least the fuel is now so expensive that Excise revenue has gone down. I find that curiously comforting.
@James P;
Yeah, check out the Laffer curve.
It's the tax revenue equivalent of the commercial verity that you make more from a small cut of a large volume of sales than a large cut of a small volume.