petrol prices

dirtydog said:
I can't say I approve of such tax evasion. None of us like paying taxes but if I have to, so should you.
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Rubbish, everyone should protest&refuse to pay till those left ******** lower the tax on fuels. Ranting doesn't get to these politics, action does.
Block the motorways I'd say, block all government buildings and block all petrol stations, that should get people the attention and show them we're not fooling around.
 
snowdog said:
Rubbish, everyone should protest&refuse to pay till those left ******** lower the tax on fuels. Ranting doesn't get to these politics, action does.
Block the motorways I'd say, block all government buildings and block all petrol stations, that should get people the attention and show them we're not fooling around.
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Regardless on what course of action is taken things will probably come to a head eventually - there's only so much tax the British public will take before saying enough is enough.

The wife was complaining just the other day i never take her anywhere expensive - so i took her to the local garage and filled up my new car :p
 
snowdog said:
Rubbish, everyone should protest&refuse to pay till those left ******** lower the tax on fuels. Ranting doesn't get to these politics, action does.
Block the motorways I'd say, block all government buildings and block all petrol stations, that should get people the attention and show them we're not fooling around.
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No it isn't rubbish. Fraudulently using red diesel in your car is a criminal offence and means the rest of us have to pay their share for them.
 
dirtydog said:
No it isn't rubbish. Fraudulently using red diesel in your car is a criminal offence and means the rest of us have to pay their share for them.
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The tax doesn't increase because a few don't pay it, the gov will just get less money in to spend on sum rubbish subsidy or whatever. These day's I'd be more worried about my wallet than the law. If I could & had to, I'd gladly use cheap fuel, regardless what it is.
 
snowdog said:
The tax doesn't increase because a few don't pay it, the gov will just get less money in to spend on sum rubbish subsidy or whatever. These day's I'd be more worried about my wallet than the law. If I could & had to, I'd gladly use cheap fuel, regardless what it is.
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I guess the difference between you and me then, is I don't condone criminal behaviour :)

If I have to pay, so should you. It is a simple matter of fairness and principle.
 
dirtydog said:
I guess the difference between you and me then, is I don't condone criminal behaviour :)

If I have to pay, so should you. It is a simple matter of fairness and principle.
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Don't worry about me though, I don't even drive yet, my principle is that I'm starting to hate the country's politics, sums up pretty much the whole of Europe to me these days, the EU too, I bloody hate em now. All those rubbish environment laws, I just refuse to accept them.


I don't consider it criminal behavior, just an offense, just like speeding, wrong parking/ not playing for parking, or file sharing, I'm personally all for it, and I don't care of people break it because I don't agree with the laws themselves.
 
Farmers are currently being targeted for their red diesel..

We've just started hot desking and we're encouraged to work from home.

So spending 3 days a week at home and saving on diesel could result in me spending 5 days a week at home instead.. only thing is that my electricity bills rise and the cap for ADSL gets hammered due to the additional work traffic. Only danger is my home becoming a 'place of work' for the company.. hence paying for it.
Good thing I don't pay the blackberry bill with all the calls.

Currently I get about 9-11 days of travel from the focus tdci tank. I set of early and come back early to miss the rushhour queues and maintain a 55-70mph speed. So the cost isn't too bad at £60 a tank.
With this dropping to 2 trips a week instead of 5.. will mean I get a month of diesel out of that £60.
 
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NickK said:
Farmers are currently being targeted for their red diesel..

We've just started hot desking and we're encouraged to work from home.

So spending 3 days a week at home and saving on diesel could result in me spending 5 days a week at home instead.. only thing is that my electricity bills rise and the cap for ADSL gets hammered due to the additional work traffic. Only danger is my home becoming a 'place of work' for the company.. hence paying for it.
Good thing I don't pay the blackberry bill with all the calls.
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Quite a few at our place are hotdesking and spending time working from home. We're putting in a SoftPhone VoIP solution to our PBX to get around expensive mobile phone bills :)

I hate working from home though to be honest. Spent a year doing it in a previous job and I went mad with cabin fever.
 
Sonea Fifer said:
there's only so much tax the British public will take before saying enough is enough.
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Didnt that happen about 232 years ago :P

I say death to politicians ! ! !

I was reading this thread this morning before leaving to go to work and on the way to work i stopped and filled up the tank and while standing there looking at the $4.09 a gallon price for 93 octain , i thought of you guys from ocuk and thought , what a lucky ******* i am .
 
Solari said:
Quite a few at our place are hotdesking and spending time working from home. We're putting in a SoftPhone VoIP solution to our PBX to get around expensive mobile phone bills :)

I hate working from home though to be honest. Spent a year doing it in a previous job and I went mad with cabin fever.
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That's the problem with working from home - the physical isolation - even though I spend a lot of time talking to people it'll be interesting after 6 months with this.
I do live near a forest so I can go for a run at lunch time but there's not going to be the same banter..

Question is - which is worse for business? Higher wages, or rife cabin fever!

I can see this whole cost thing making people return more to the "local" model. That is people walk to their local shops todo the shopping (or possibly drive to the supermarket). Entertainment locally needs to increase too if people can travel or there's going to be social issues.

The real issue I see is that public transport is owned by private individuals. The result is that tax benefits or maximum charges have to given by the government if they don't want the cost of tax on fuel to be applied directly to the cost of travel.

Also there's little infrastructure for biking (like NL which has a fabulous infrastructure). I'd be quite happy to bike from the train station to work and get fitter doing it but the public company would charge me for the privilege.
 
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ZoomZ said:
Didnt that happen about 232 years ago :P

I say death to politicians ! ! !

I was reading this thread this morning before leaving to go to work and on the way to work i stopped and filled up the tank and while standing there looking at the $4.09 a gallon price for 93 octain , i thought of you guys from ocuk and thought , what a lucky ******* i am .
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93 octane is like our super unleaded yeah?
 
Solari said:
Quite a few at our place are hotdesking and spending time working from home. We're putting in a SoftPhone VoIP solution to our PBX to get around expensive mobile phone bills :)

I hate working from home though to be honest. Spent a year doing it in a previous job and I went mad with cabin fever.
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You in telephony then I take it? who for?
 
is there liters smaller than ours..bear with me thats not as dumb as it sounds, it says in the manual my tank is 75 litres but when im down to 10miles left it only need like 64 to brim it. it's crazy

sound like a right dunce now :p
 
DAvE18 said:
is there liters smaller than ours..bear with me thats not as dumb as it sounds, it says in the manual my tank is 75 litres but when im down to 10miles left it only need like 64 to brim it. it's crazy

sound like a right dunce now :p
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Could it be that the full tank sensor registers low fuel when there is still, say a few litres left, and the tank capacity is measured by the manufacturer for the fluid volume required for it to spill out the filling cap?
 
DAvE18 said:
is there liters smaller than ours..bear with me thats not as dumb as it sounds, it says in the manual my tank is 75 litres but when im down to 10miles left it only need like 64 to brim it. it's crazy

sound like a right dunce now :p
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no there are not different litres like there are US and UK gallons. The litre is a metric standard and is the same wherever you go.
 
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