100,000 drivers sign fuel petition

03/10/2011

By Verena Vogt

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition which demands government action on fuel costs, meaning the issue will now have to be debated in the House of Commons.

The online petition calls for the planned rise in fuel duty to be discarded and for a mechanism to stabilise petrol prices. It received its 100,000th signature on Friday evening.

It is only the third petition which has passed this threshold on the government's e-petitions website since its inception.

The first demanded that people involved in last month's riots and looting lose their benefits. It has now been signed by over 247,000 people.

The second, which has received more than 139,000 signatures, called for secret documents about the 1989 Hillsborough disaster to be released.

Peter Carroll, organiser of the FairFuelUK Campaign said: "People are looking to the politicians to understand that a cut in fuel duty would stimulate growth and have the added benefit of reducing inflation."