goverment and fuel duty again !

That doesn't really make me any the wiser.

Is that something that has actually happened, or something random you've just made up to make a point?
 
What benefit do I gain from making it up? Are you denying that public spending ever goes above what is required and that a politician has ever had personal gain?

Sorry, I didn't save the 4 or so year old paper article waiting for the day evidence is required on an online forum!
 
zain said:
What benefit do I gain from making it up? Are you denying that public spending ever goes above what is required and that a politician has ever had personal gain?

Sorry, I didn't save the 4 or so year old paper article waiting for the day evidence is required on an online forum!
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I'm not denying anything, I just have no idea what on earth you were waffling on about as it was just posted randomly without reference to anything at all, not even which council it was supposedly related to.

You may as well have posted about a £3m project to build a giant titanium budgie and it would tell me about as much as that post did.
 
The only way you'll ever get another blockade is if you go and create/participate in one yourselves.

But you wont.
 
zain said:
People don't protest anymore they're too caught up in their own interests
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lol

if there was a protest like in early 2000 (or was it late 90s?), they'd probably get shot or jailed.
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lol

Things like this never go down well, especially since the so called leaders keep up their lifestyle by taxing more out of hard working citizens.
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lol
 
zain said:
The way Conanius implied it, no. What do you think its spent on?
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I have no doubt its wasted on all sorts of rubbish but to suggest that those in power at the time have a vested personal financial interest in increasing fuel duty is ridiculous.
 
You're kidding? The whole recession and increase in cost palava is the financial interest of those in power, both politically and rich individuals/groups.

Why do you think its being increased?
 
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I have no doubt its wasted on all sorts of rubbish but to suggest that those in power at the time have a vested personal financial interest in increasing fuel duty is ridiculous.
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You need to understand that the mind warp rays can't penetrate the greenland near your house in Plymouth, so you won't understand what Zain knows. He's aware of these things, his use of the tin foil hat helps you see. He knows the underground resistance movement... a bit like the food scavengers staking out Taco Bell in Demotion Man I'd imagine.

I bet Zain has loads of bags of rice, bottled water, tins, claymore mines, etc ready for when the riots start. Any day now we'll hit peak oil and all hell will break loose...

That about right Zain?

In the real world ... It genuinely frightens me that some people who post such utter dross (even by my standards) are potentially allowed outside on their own. They must spend the entire time mumbling to each other being scared of 'the state' coming after them.
 
zain said:
Why do you think its being increased?
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Because fuel duty is part of a command/control mechanism aimed at reducing the usage of vehicles and/or encouraging the use of more efficient vehicles, be it to increase our energy security or save the planet or whatever reason they've come up with this week for cars being evil.

It's also a hugely useful cash cow for running the country.

Fuel duty is not being increased so that David Cameron can have a new holiday home :rolleyes:
 
That's quite an assumption based on what you have read from my text. If you can't provide anything useful and just accuse perhaps its best you stay in your happy zone and keep up the fully star out swear words poor attempts at trying to be funny.
 
[TW]Fox;21348355 said:
Because fuel duty is part of a command/control mechanism aimed at reducing the usage of vehicles and/or encouraging the use of more efficient vehicles, be it to increase our energy security or save the planet or whatever reason they've come up with this week for cars being evil.

It's also a hugely useful cash cow for running the country.

Fuel duty is not being increased so that David Cameron can have a new holiday home :rolleyes:
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You know that fuel duty is inelastic, whatever changes they do will have little to no effect on reduction. What fuel duty is, is not the issue here.

Who said DC receives a new holiday home? You can see yourself from media exposure what MPs get up to with tax payer money, even when Clegg and DC got into power he gave a major contract to his wife, the funds coming from the tax payers pocket. Whoever is in charge of how the income from duty is distributed will no doubt gain some sort of benefit when dishing out who gets what.
 
Tell that to the lovely people who got us into this mess.... and please, don't blame just the bankers.

I'm delighted that the government have shown the guts to put some controversial plans on the table for things like the NHS, State Benefits, etc etc. It is the only way we can clean up this mess. It's great that it has provoked such debate, people should be interested in all this.

I doubt rising prices will be going away, far from it. There is a lot of deficit to pay off.
 
zain said:
You know that fuel duty is inelastic, whatever changes they do will have little to no effect on reduction.
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This is not true. It is relatively price inelastic not absolutely price inelastic. Case in point - would you change your car if duty on unleaded was £5 a litre? Yes you would.

Infact the rising tide of diesel vehicles on the road - purchased for perceived efficiency - is testement to this.
 
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