Fuel tax up again 1st April

Such a ****take. If it was under £1 this time last year, and it's going to be £1.15 this year God knows where fuel's going to be in 10 years time!

Goodbye V8, hello G8 :(
 
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I was up near Northampton at the weekend, one of the service stations on the A43 was priced at 127p / litre for normal 95RON :( I almost cried
 
PMKeates said:
Only with the £:€ rate as it is. Before the mess began we had the second highest fuel prices in Europe (and probably near enough the world) after the Netherlands.
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Exactly

take an average european car, like a BMW, go find out its price in say .. germany in euros and work it back

Then compare it with the list price. If you work on the current conversion rate, they should be selling the M3 for £75,000 !
 
This will probably end up costing me another £5 a month. Not a lot, but as someone else has said, it's the 4th time this year...
 
eatcustard said:
My Camper runs on LPG 56ppl
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LPG is 57p here. I'm biting the bullet and paying nearly what I paid for my Jeep in the first place for the conversion. It will take about 15k to start paying me back but I've no intention of flogging it so it makes sense to get it done now.

mejinks said:
People bitch and moan but do nothing about it.
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Like what? Go slows on the motorway and picketing fuel depots? Not sure what else we can do. Its only ever going to get worse.
 
mejinks said:
People bitch and moan but do nothing about it.
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This is very true. If people refused to pay for it and didnt go to work because they couldnt afford to pay for petrol then the government might bring the price down to a £1. Also bus prices are going up again due to the cost of fuel so its soon going to cost about the same for a bus ticket as the journey in your car.

I believe the reason they keep putting it up is down to them trying to make people either car share or get the bus so that they can save the world (haha) and keep fuel (oil) longer and charge us more in the long run.

My unlce is a lorry driver and he says it costs them so much money for 4 lorries that he doesnt know how the company he works for even manages to be still in business.

The price increase is costing me £20 a month more I might add
 
BD10NNF said:
This is very true. If people refused to pay for it and didnt go to work because they couldnt afford to pay for petrol then the government might bring the price down to a £1.
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After you old chap, I doubt people would be prepared to sacrifice their jobs to 'make a point' which would probably be ignored anyway.
 
BD10NNF said:
This is very true. If people refused to pay for it and didnt go to work because they couldnt afford to pay for petrol then the government might bring the price down to a £1.
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:confused:

If i don't go to work, i get fired, if i get fired i don't have money. I fail to see how that'd help.

Maybe if half the population did it, but that's never going to happen, because people can't afford to lose the money.
 
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