Welcome to flyertalk. The reason you are not getting a warm welcome is the entire fuel surcharge issue has been recently covered in the Wall Street Journal and New York times and then local papers picked up the story. So you are iritating some flyertalk members.

You do not want to use these miles for a coach/economy tickets for a value. You want to use the miles to fly biz or first. Otherwise the best use for BA miles is on code share airlines like AA but AA is raising the fuel surcharge.