Working in the oil industry, it is not the oil companies that are to blame, you might as well target the ciggerette makers over high costs. Petrol costs about 20p per litre. It is the government taxes that cause it to cost £1. Fluctuations in the worlds instability (in a nutshell caused by Bush), cause minor flutcuations which petrol stations quite rightly have to adjust for. They have a baseline cost to operate from. This is also the same reason why a pint of milk may flucutate depending on how the cows are feeling and if their is any BSE crisis ongoing. It is also why gas costs more. (remember the high gas prices during the russian chezch crisis?). Campaigning against BP wont result in anything. Why any buisness would "conspier" to be the most expensive is ridicoulus given the competition that exists. This article fails to point out the facts and true reasons behind high fuel costs. and no i dont work for BP

Liam, Aberdeen, Scotland

In the interests of "full disclosure" Dave, shouldn't you mention that YOU are the creator of said group...?

Michael Knight, London,

Whether or not most of the price is tax, at a quid a litre I would expect a better product - my car was affected by the Tesco petrol contamination issue. It still drives differently when I buy the cheaper stuff. Who is doing the quality checks ?

Why do we have to pay extra for 'premium' petrol which gives more mileage and is cleaner for the environment, and doesn't knacker our engines as much ? just make it all like that.

Gareth, Weybridge, UK

Theres not a lot we can do about rising oil prices. What the government could do is regulate the duty at times like this. At the moment we have the gobsmacking situation that when the oil price goes up, the tax does too. So when the squeeze is put on motorists with sky high oil prices, we have to pay MORE in VAT as well! Surely some system should be in place whereby the VAT is CUT in times of high oil prices, rather than increased! The government is laughing at us all as the price goes up and up, and no one does anything about it.

Dave Connor, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

hmm, it's true though, BP are more expensive, they are £1.02 a litre up my way and the station just up the road has it for 99.9p.

also, the MAIN reason for the fuel being so high is the fuel tax imposed by the government - if they dropped it by 27p a litre to be in line with the European average we'd all be delighted and would be afford to actually go places at the weekend, see our families and so on. It took 100 years for petrol to reach 37p a litre, and has taken just 10 to almost triple it - ten years of labour government, tax and spend. If you think that's right, you have to be insane.

Jack, Leeds,

Protesting against the rising price of oil as sensible as protesting against the weather.

It is the Chancellor's fuel duty which is the outrage.

Don, Biethisunne, Norway

It’s not BP it's the bloody Government!
If those Facebook people want to take action then they'd be better off teaming up with the haulage companies to bring the UK to a standstill.

Personally I'd be happy to fight until we got fuel to 70p a litre.
Any day now the Government will knock 2p or 3p in the hope of appeasing the People.

Phill Barlow, The Wirral, England

I planned to join this group, to counter-act the blatantly poor argument of targetting BP in all this. Analysis of BP and Shell's accounts would indicate that their retail (ie forecourt) sales are a small percentage of their overall revenues as global oil companies.

The rose-tinted view that, somehow by not going to BP prices at its stations will fall, is both laughable and desperate. The last line of this article puts in context - tax is the big issue in the price of fuel in this country, not one company's retail outlets.

Jeff, Reading,

Henry Elliss is WRONG.
1. Only people who shut themselves off from the outside world, or who are either unable or not interested in understanding universal fuel price mechanisms do not know why prices are so high at the moment. It is not 'a failure by fuel giants bla bla bla'. The reason for high oil prices has been covered pretty much every publication in existence in the past 2 months or so.
2. The postings on this Facebook group clearly indicate there's unhappiness around on the fuel prices, but MANY rightfully comment that this is NOT BP's fault.
3. The group started off as a No Fuel Day, as the title says. Only following comments from posters did the organiser pragmatically and ignorantly chose BP as a target for this boycott. BP's boycott is only mentioned in the 6-7th paragraph, and most online people browse - ie don't read everything. I would be interested to see if these online protesters are related to that other great community - of armchair globetrotters..

David Green, Reigate, UK