現在他們要配給汽油：國會議員支持代幣計劃因為價格準備在夏季升至每加侖8英鎊
Now they want to ration petrol: MPs back token scheme as prices are set to hit £8 a gallon by the summer
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:06 PM on 24th January 2011
Translation by Autumnson Blog
Households would be given tokens for fuel in home and cars
家庭將被給予代幣為家庭和汽車的燃料
Surplus units could be sold and extra tokens bought
盈餘單位可作出售和額外代幣可被購買
A petrol rationing programme has been proposed by MPs as prices look likely to soar to £8 a gallon this summer.
一項汽油配給計劃已由國會議員建議，因為價格看起來可能在今年夏天飆升到每加侖8英鎊。
Households would be given a set number of free energy 'tokens' which would be offset against any fuel burnt in a vehicle or at home, under the proposals made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil.
家庭將得到一套定額的自由能源'碎幣'，這將抵銷任何在汽車或是在家裡燃燒的燃料，根據所有黨派議會石油峰值小組所作的有關建議。
Under the Tradable Energy Quotas programme, surplus energy units could be sold and extra tokens bought.
在可交易能源配額方案，剩餘的能量單位可作出售和額外代幣可被購買。
Petrol rationing: Plans to give households energy tokens have been proposed in a bid to deal with global energy shortages and the climate change crisis
汽油配給：計劃向家庭提供能源碎幣已被建議，以應對全球能源短缺和氣候變化危機
The Coalition Government has so far insisted it has no plans to implement the scheme.
聯合政府至今堅持它沒有計劃推行該計劃。
But the all-party committee of 20 MPs said its proposals were necessary to deal with global energy shortages and the climate change crisis.
但有20名國會議員的各黨派委員會說，它的建議是需要的，以應對全球能源短缺和氣候變化危機。
It comes as the RAC Foundation warned that fuel could hit £1.75 a litre - £8 a gallon - in parts of the country by the summer.
Prices of £1.50 a litre are already being charged in the Orkney Isles.
'Tradable Energy Quotas are the only way we can reduce carbon emissions and at the same time guarantee that everyone gets fair access to limited energy supplies,' said Shaun Chamberlin, co-author of the report into TEQs.
But Luke Bosdet of the AA dismissed the idea as an 'academic's brainwave typically out of touch with reality', according to the Daily Express.
He told the newspaper: 'It sends alarm bells ringing because of its administration and fears of exploitation.
'People will be allowed to trade units they don't use, which as usual will hit the lower-income driver who becomes priced off the road.
'It would be open for abuse by greedy individuals and politicians.'
The Transport Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday admitted that soaring fuel prices are a real ‘problem’ for hard pressed motorists.
And he offered an olive branch to cash-strapped drivers, signalling that there will be action to cut prices in March’s budget.
His intervention turns up the heat on the Treasury, where ministers have argued that the government needs to hang on to the extra revenue from rising pump prices.
Concern: Philip Hammond admitted that fuel prices have become a problem for cash-strapped drivers
關注：菲利普哈蒙德承認，燃料價格對現金短缺的司機已經成為一個問題
Mr Hammond revived the notion of a fair fuel stabiliser, designed to iron out expensive swings in the oil price, despite the opposition of some Treasury mandarins.
He said: ‘Nobody is suggesting there’s not a problem. There clearly is a problem. And it’s partly driven by Labour’s fuel duty increases but it’s partly driven by world oil prices.
‘We’ve got a Budget in eight weeks time. The Chancellor said at the last budget that we’re going to look at the practicality of a fair fuel stabiliser and he will announce his conclusions.’
He said the stabiliser – which would see fuel duty fall as oil prices rise – would ‘smooth out the peaks and troughs in the oil price so we don’t get pump prices shooting up one week and then dropping down again, two or three weeks later.
‘If we want to change people’s behaviour we need to send long term consistent messages and fuel prices spiking all over the place does not help.’
But Robert Chote, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, said a stabiliser would have a negative impact on the economy.
'Our summer analysis suggested that a fair fuel stabiliser would be likely to make the public finances less stable rather than more stable,' he told the Financial Times.
High fuel prices have already caused five per cent of road users to give up their cars altogether, while 48 per cent of drivers say they are using their cars less.
Government sources say Chancellor George Osborne is looking at plans to slash fuel costs for British truck drivers.
Ministers believe that would prevent a repeat of the fuel blockades in cities and on British motorways which brought the country to a grinding halt in 2000.
The plans being examined would see hauliers claim back VAT on their petrol and diesel costs – or see road tax cut for lorry drivers.
Foreign truckers could also be charged extra for using British roads in order to level the playing field for UK hauliers.
Those with a 10 lorry fleet have seen their fuel bills rise by an average of £14,000 a year.
But the Chancellor is under pressure to go further and use the budget to help ordinary homeowners and small businesses as well as haulage firms.
Andrew Cave of the Federation of Small Businesses said yesterday: ‘After two years of very difficult economic conditions, small businesses are not able to absorb the cost of fuel increases.
‘They are either having to cut back on investments they may have made in new machinery or freeze wages or possibly let staff go or, the vast majority are passing those costs on to the consumer which is indirectly fuelling inflation.’
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