& apparently now I have to get pregnant, have four kids & live off of benefits as comutting is beyond me.
Not quite what I meant by "rethinking your options" but of course I was speaking generally and not about you personally. There are plenty of options beyond private transport like walking/bus/lift share/train/bicycle.
If you have put yourself in a position where you HAVE to use private transpot then that is your responsibility and a consequence of choices you have made.
You need to take responsibility for your actions.
It's now essential that we all live within our means both personally and nationally.
& all Im doing is asking people to put there names on an online petition??
Which is completely pointless, because there is no way in this severe economic crisis that economic policy is going to be changed simply because you (and others) want your petrol to be cheaper.
I don't agree with your point about cigarettes and booze. Other people are entitled to their hobbies. If you have put yourself in a position (by choice of home and job) where the only way to get to work is by private transport then that's your choice. You do not have the right to restrict the choices of others to smoke/drink.
I do not like the way you are trying to coerce people into doing something they don't want by minimising their views (which isn't working BTW).
I have to say that I also did not like the way you volunteered me to post my sidi boots (when there was no way I could get them to the post office on my bike) and I didn't like the way you tried to hijack the girls rideout for your own political agenda as well.
Ask whatever you want, but please stick to asking and not coercion.
Not everyone agrees with your agenda and you have to accept that.
If you don't want to agree with me that's fine, but I planned my life so that I have 7 options for transport to work. I don't expect the worlds oil reserves, UK economic policy or currency exchange rates to fit around my choices and I think that's extremely self-centered.