Is FairFuelUK’s Call For Windfall Tax Being Heard

Windfall Tax, PumpWatch are People’s Priorities, Not Net Zero

As you have previously commented on a potential ‘Windfall Tax’ on oil companies, it is pertinent to present to you, the findings from the FairFuelUK Political Opinion Poll carried out in the last week. 58,000 have completed the survey from cyclists to truckers at https://s.surveyplanet.com/eisp5dk7

Here are headline findings and what respondents want from our government.

• Solving the Cost-of-Living Crisis should be the topmost priority = 81.2%
• Cut energy prices = 80.4% (‘by removal of green taxes and VAT’)
• Focus on the Net Zero Policies = 9.2%
• Implement a Windfall Tax on Oil Companies = 75.4%
• Introduce an independent pump price monitoring watch dog = 78.5%
• Cut Fuel Duty by 20p/litre = 74.6%

Howard Cox, FairFuelUK’s founder says: “At FairFuelUK we have been banging on for months and months about the Government recognising the cost-of-living crisis as being their ultimate political priority to solve. And to solve it now not wait till the Autumn Budget. So many back bench MPs I work with agree with FairFuelUK, yet still the Treasury and Number 10 remain out of touch, lagging behind public feeling. Our latest massive opinion poll clearly shows the public don’t give two figs about Net Zero, they do worry however about heating their homes, the cost of filling up their cars and putting food on their table. Adopting PumpWatch, a new Windfall tax and putting the green agenda on the back burner, will ensure the Tories restore a modicum of popularity and respect. But I’m delighted to hear the Treasury could be moving towards taxing the greedy oil companies with a punitive tax. Yet will Rishi do it now, perhaps in an emergency Budget, or wait till its way too late?”