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Brown Postpones Fuel Duty
20 July 2004
Commenting on the announcement today that the Chancellor is to delay the introduction of an increase in fuel duty, originally scheduled for September this year, Friends of the Earth Executive Director Tony Juniper said:
"This decision reveals a failure of joined up environmental thinking, right at the heart of Government. On the day that Ministers admitted that their transport policies have failed and that traffic levels will continue to increase on Britain's roads, Gordon Brown has broken a promise to implement one of the few incentives designed to get drivers out of their cars. The Government's own transport white paper published today states that one of the most effective ways of reducing carbon emissions is through measures affecting the cost of fuel. Brown is pouring cheap oil on the fires of environmental destruction for short term political gain."
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See: http://budget2004.treasury.gov.uk/page_07.html
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