75 per cent is Tax !

Hauliers threaten poll disruption.

Fuel £ 1.00 a gallon, plus Tax £ 3.00 = £ 4. 00 a gallon

Protesters are threatening to take to the streets on 3 May. Fuel tax protesters are threatening to disrupt the general election with a campaign of oil refinery blockades and go-slows starting on 3 May.

The Fuel Lobby's Andrew Spence said the action would go ahead if the government did not bring down tax on fuel.

Hundreds of hauliers and farmers are to attend a meeting in Stirling, Scotland, to protest against high fuel prices.

A week-long series of protests against rising fuel taxes all but brought the UK to a halt in 2000.

''Don't rule anything out - the election would be stopped if we had our way'' Said Andrew Spence from the Peoples Fuel Lobby

On Friday, Mr Spence, a farmer and haulier from Consett, County Durham, warned of direct action if government did not take action.
"Don't rule anything out - the election would be stopped if we had our way," he said.

"Tony Blair will not have enough fuel in his car to get to the polling station."
He said it would be difficult to stop the farmers and road hauliers, who are meeting in Scotland on Friday, from protesting until 3 May.
'Increasingly militant'

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) said anger was mounting around the country about "the increasing cost of fuel" and warned its members could be stirred into "legal" action.

Roger King, RHA's chief executive, said meetings had been held in North Wales and Scotland and attitudes were becoming "increasingly militant".
''We are paying the highest levels of fuel duty in the world''

He said members were meeting to discuss how to develop the protest.
"Whatever we do as an industry, it must be lawful but to the point," he said.
"We recognise that the price of oil is a world problem, but the fact remains that we are paying the highest levels of fuel duty in the world.

"We equally recognise that government has frozen fuel duty for some
while now, but this has done little to stem the huge increase in costs hauliers must pay before they receive any return from the customer - even if that customer is paying something towards the extra cost.
"We desperately need some kind of fuel stabilisation formula.''