There is a simple solution to that you badger faced buffoon

[Grumpmeister]

If you want cheaper petrol at the pump then drop the extortionate level of tax you levy on the stuff you blithering idiot instead of blaming the oil companies in a pathetic attempt to make you look better! 

LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Thursday the recent drop in world oil prices needed to be passed on to consumers swiftly.

"I want to see that reduction passed on to the pumps as quickly as possible ... because people are entitled to see the benefit of that falling price reflected in what they actually pay when they fill up the car," Darling told GMTV.

Crude oil prices have fallen to trade around $70 (42 pounds) a barrel from over $147 a barrel in July.

[Snoopy]

Whilst I agree about the tax the Oil Companies are not without blame in this

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/shells-106bn-profits-fuel-windfall-tax-calls-980271.html

Friday, 31 October 2008
Royal Dutch Shell's third-quarter profits ballooned by 71 per cent to $10.9bn (£6.7bn), the company said yesterday, reigniting outrage that energy companies are cashing in while inflated oil prices punish consumers.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Exxon Mobil broke its own record for the biggest quarterly profits in US corporate history. The world's largest public company reported earnings of $14.8bn, up 58 per cent from 2007 despite an 8 per cent production decline.

After BP announced profit growth of 148 per cent, earlier this week, it was the Prime Minister calling for recent reductions in the oil price to be passed on to petrol pumps. Yesterday was the Chancellor's turn. "People are entitled to see the benefit of that falling price reflected in what they actually pay when they fill up the car," Alistair Darling said in a television interview.