WHO are they trying to fool? The spectre of another fuel crisis looms, thinly disguised as a moral crusade re-tracing the Jarrow March. How dare they? The image of hundreds of trucks crawling along at a snail's pace, escorted by farmers in a motley collection of tractors and Range Rovers, beggars belief.

How can they even deign to evoke the spirit of a dignified body of men who walked, yes walked, to London: walked, because they had no choice.

They had no choice, no work, no money, no hope.

The gesture may well have been futile, but what damage did this hunger-stricken crusade do to the environment?

How do we react to this "popular uprising"?

If I don't like the Government's policies, I won't vote for them - next time.

If I want to protest peacefully, should I ride out in front of the convoy on its arrival in York on my environmentally-friendly bike, that being the crux of the argument in raising the tax on fossil fuels?

And, like the Chinese student facing the tank in Tiannamen Square, will I then become an international hero or, more likely, arrested for obstructing the highway?

York defiantly, stoically combats yet another natural crisis.

The last thing on anyone's mind should be having to deal with a mindless, self-appointed, unaccountable mob holding the country to ransom.

J Marshall,

North Moor,

Huntington, York.

...Why doesn't the Evening Press and the rest of the media mention any possible link between the tax on fuel, the amount of fossil fuel we burn and the effect this has on the environment, the climate and the likelihood of flooding?

Most respected scientists working in the area point out the links again and again but the media does not report them.

You have a responsibility to point out that the links between lower fuel duty - more fuel burnt, pollution and climate change.

Jim Semlyen,

Grange Street, York.

...The Evening Press has reported that residents in the Rawcliffe area were angry about the lack of help they had received during the flood crisis.

Councillor Rod Hills said there might have been mistakes made but that the Leeman Road area had seemed to be the one under the greatest threat.

One wonders if it is material that the Leeman Road area is in a Labour ward whereas Rawcliffe is not.

It may well be the case that local residents are better served if their ward has a Labour councillor.

Richard Lamb,

Greystoke Road,

Rawcliffe, York.