Thumped at the pumps

GORDON Brown has landed a £1BILLION tax windfall from soaring fuel prices-and already has enough in the coffers to pay for a 12P-A-LITRE price cut.

And today we launch a special News of the World campaign to bring down prices at the forecourts...and KEEP BRITAIN MOVING.

It's an issue that affects EVERYONE in the land. While mums and dads struggle to fill the tank of the family runabout, hugely increased distribution costs are also driving up prices of almost everything else.

So we are calling on the Prime Minister to:

CUT fuel duty to help hard-working Brits

SCRAP the proposed 2p duty rise set for this autumn

DITCH plans to increase car tax on older cars, which will cost motorists up to £200 more next year

GIVE our hauliers an "essential rebate" of 20p a litre.

And YOU can play your part by signing our petition below-or online HERE-and show the PM how you feel.

We'll then haul your responses to Number 10 and tell Gordon Brown: "It's our way, or the highway."

For with fuel prices now reaching a crippling 116p a litre for unleaded and 130p a litre for diesel, the only people not feeling the pinch are Mr Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling.

Instead the government coffers are filling up-because MORE THAN HALF of the money you pay for fuel goes straight to the Treasury.

At current prices it means that for every litre of petrol you buy a staggering 67.6p goes to the government in the form of fuel duty and VAT. And with diesel it's 69.61p per litre.

On top of that are the huge taxes paid by oil companies operating in the North Sea. Altogether it means that the government has had £1BILLION EXTRA since it made its Budget tax predictions on March 12. They were based on oil being $84 a barrel-although it has averaged $113 a barrel since.

Now it's reached $135 a barrel and, say accountants Grant Thornton, the windfall is already enough for a 12p-a-litre cut. But with prices still rising-there are fears of them reaching $200 a barrel-the windfall could easily reach £7.5BILLION in a full year. Among those hardest by the rises are Britain's hauliers-as pretty truck driver Adele Litscher, 23, well knows.

Adele who drives a 26-tonne lorry for her father Adrian's Essex haulage company, said: "With my truck it can cost me up to £600 a week just in fuel, when only a couple of years ago it would have cost £400.

"And for the bigger artics-the 44 tonners-it can cost up to £1,000-a-week, whereas that was around £650 just two years ago.

"The industry cannot cope with these rises."

Adele is spearheading our campaign as the first to sign our petition. And she's promised to load up her up rig with your replies and deliver them personally to Downing Street.

So get writing-and send Gordon a message: Get It Down, Brown.