Rejected petition Half the fuel excise duty during this period of instability in Middle East,

Immediately reduce fuel excise duty by 50% for six months. Simultaneously, the Government must implement stricter price monitoring and a temporary cap on fuel retail margins to ensure that this tax cut is passed directly to consumers at the pump rather than being absorbed as corporate profit.

More details

Global instability should not result in record profits for energy firms while UK households suffer. Fuel duty cuts in the past have not always reached the public. By limiting profit margins during this crisis, the Government ensures that tax relief benefits the economy, lowers the cost of living, and prevents opportunistic price-gouging during a period of national financial strain.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for similar action: "Reduce fuel duty tax to at least half of the current rates" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/764577

You may also be interested in this petition: "Cap retail oil and gas prices" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/764109

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 30 March 2026
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.