Petrol Prices
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Been looking up prices today as I will be off to devizes to see family tonight, super unleaded is 108.9 around where I am now, upto 113.9 in devizes which sucks as I will need to refuel for the return journey.
Wait until we see the effects of the 2.5%vat increase again.
Oil is currently at a low price, but it's speculators (apparently) who are driving up the price.
GB is the biggest hypocrite of them all, asking everyone to lower oil prices then banging extra tax on it!
Oil is currently at a low price, but it's speculators (apparently) who are driving up the price.
GB is the biggest hypocrite of them all, asking everyone to lower oil prices then banging extra tax on it!
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The UK has cheaper petrol than most of Europe at the monent.
That, and the fact that fuel is currently about the same price it was around 18 months ago mean we can't really complain.
in one paper last week they said fuel was 87p this time last year. I not sure what country they ment but im sure it was 105p... it aint dipped below 90p for 3years now. At least not here.
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Yeah it's yoyo'd around, I'm just saying that I remember being on a course in Feb 2008 and filling up for 107.9.
I think we should form an OcUK piracy team and go hijack some offshore parked tankers
Shouldnt be difficult there are quite afew sat around doing nothing if the papers are to be believed. Some of them have been sat offshore since September refusing to unload untill the price is right.
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Ehhmmm, where were you at the end of last year? It went as low as 82p here, briefly at least. I remember it well because I got to laugh at all the people with small engines.
Yes we can, we are still taxed massively, disproportionately and pointlessley on fuel, which still makes up the majority of the cost of the fuel that we buy.
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Look how cheap it is in India for example as well.
I really have no reason to complain about the prices here as living there as general populus would be far worse (IMO) than living in the UK.
I really have no reason to complain about the prices here as living there as general populus would be far worse (IMO) than living in the UK.
Look how cheap it is in America
Look at how they complain about the high prices just as much as we do..
That is because they waste so much money on so many unneeded things, plus drive cars that do a fraction of our MPG and hardly have any diesels - so in the end they have proportionally about the same to spend on fuel, but they also have far more stuff they don't need to go with that.
Given how you earn $40k or so doing some sorta boring factory job in USA, and every item costs less than £1:$1 ratio, they have far more disposable income than us really.
I'd rather they taxed fuel rather than any other form of road tax. Taxing fuel is the best way of taxing road *usage*, because the two are more or less related.
VAT on top of fuel duty is properly immoral though
I'd rather they taxed fuel rather than any other form of road tax. Taxing fuel is the best way of taxing road *usage*, because the two are more or less related.
VAT on top of fuel duty is properly immoral though
Tax on fuel should be related directly to the social harm associated with it, and I would have no problem with the taxation. Unfortunately, our taxation has nothing to do with fairness and correct state management and everything to do with general revenue generation.
And the tax money taken from fuel should be 100% spent on tackling this harm, investing in green technology.
Just like road tax "should" be spent 100% on roads
But it isn't