Well he'd better start the 'Crusade' at his old stomping ground The Treasury - that's where the principle reason for the price of petrol is founded. Lower the petrol tax.

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

The fuel cost isn't actually the problem, it's the taxation, so how our dear PM is goig to get the Middle East to sort that one out is beyond me.
I see the US has been moaning about the price hike, but they are paying a hell of a lot less than us, the lucky sods!

Lisa, London,

I don't know why he bothers. The 9 DUP MPs don't have a say in the price of oil. How's he going to buy votes there. Is he going to promise Scotland to the Saudi's in exchange for them producing more oil?

John Goode, Welwyn Garden City, UK

A 'crusade' to the middle east - not sure how that will win friends etc

Jim, Burnley,

What a hero, the oil producers must tremble when they hear his name. It's always soembody elses fault, eh Gordon? Nothing to do with the huge amount of tax we pay!

David Leslie, Perth, Scotland

Stuart
This is a joke as the UK Treasuy benefits when oil prices rise due to tax on N Sea oil. And we all now how much Brown loves his taxes.

Eddie Reader, birmingham, england

What rubbish.
If brown wanted to do something he would cut the tax on fuel.

Dave, London, England

LOL !

The cabinet and GB must wake up each morning thinking "What shall we do today to be seeing to be doing something?"
Lets see, "Housing? Oh yes We must build 3m homes"
Ummm "Expensive mortgages? Lets have a pow wow with the banks so they can stick two fingers up at us"
"Oil? etc etc

Jonathan, Coventry,

The man is a fool if he thinks we believe in anything he says or does. He is laughing all the way to the "bank" at the moment with the extra fuel duty we are all paying. The price of oil per barrel is not the problem, the problem is the extortionate amount of tax we pay on each litre.

Judes, Surrey,

He is trying to persuade the OPEC countries to reduce the oil prices, so he has a better margin for his own taxation in UK

Tony, Barnsley, uk

Once again, Brown, out of his depth, completely fails to understand the market (this time for oil). This desperate, irrelevant and ineffectual gesture will fail because it does nothing to tackle the root causes of commodity price inflation (a trend GB's policies as chancellor firmly underpinned).

Mark, London,

The price of oil is controlled by the city traders and not the oil producers. Mr Brown should talk to the hedge fund managers instead the oil producers.

david, oldham, uk

It is a big step entry for Mr Brown in the international politics. If he succeeds British people and the international community shall rank him as the savier of the world as they did to Sir Winston Churchill !
We British are behind him.

Dipak Das, Frimley, Surrey

He is clearly trying to use this as a distraction to 'fool' us into thinking the high price we pay at the pumps is everything to do with high cost of crude oil, while this may play a part in it the main reason is the rediculous amount of tax we pay on top!

'wool' 'over' and 'eyes' comes to mind.

James, Dunstable, England

He really does take us for complete idiots - he cannot make any difference by talking tough to OPEC and he knows it. He can, however, reduce the duty paid by general public

Liz Brown, Montmartin en Graignes,

He must think we and the oil producers are stupid. If Brown wants to reduce the fuel price he should reduce the 80% tax. If there was no tax petrol would be as cheap as chips. The oil producers are selling crude too cheaply, allowing Gordon Brown to tax it so heavily.

Jeffrey Ellis, Zurich, Switzerland

Is this a joke? Over half the cost of fuel at the pump in the UK is tax and Gordon is going on a 'crusade' against fuel cost? It must be a joke.

Stuart, Mississippi Canyon,

Brown's embarking on a personal crusade, he knows how to crack the oil price problem, he persuades, he proposes, he pushes, he pledges, he appeals. When this guy speaks the World listens - aren't we lucky to have him as our very own PM?

Gordon Alexander, Frome, UK