£1 a litre

This kind of thread kills me.
"the end of life as we know it"
"will be buying a diesel moped to replace my ..."

I wouldn't mind, but people have being moaning about the price of petrol for as long as I can remember. When petrol hit 70p/gallon, people moaned, and I remember the uproar when fuel hit £1/gallon (yep, not per ltr, per gallon). Yet somehow we still avoided the collapse of the western culture and quite to our surprise now have more "performance cars" boasting 500hp than ever before. Hmm.
 
[TW]Fox said:
We could stop paying people to sit at home and watch Sky TV perhaps..
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I took your advice and applied for that job, the people at the jobcentre looked at me kind of funny and then called for security :confused:

:p
 
.SJ said:
How on earth have you quantified and came to the conclusion that "they work the hardest?"
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Sorry yes my mistake, all those people who earn £100k a year do so purely by being lazy and not through dedication, long hours and multi-decade long careers.
 
Since I got my fuel card I ain't noticed fuel prices.

Does make running my 1/5th scale FG car pennies more expensive though.
 
[TW]Fox said:
a) A Toyota Avensis is not 'great big'. Obviously the mushy suspension might make it feel like an ocean liner, but it's not that big.
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I prefer to think of my Dads Avensis as a flying carpet with a hedge magnet on the front as its turn in response time and understeer tendencies are that bad. Great fuel economy, but an accelerator pedal that doesnt seem to make any difference whether its 5mm depressed or welded to the floor.

Lovely car for pensioners in town, but you could mistake even Jenson Button for a pensioner in one down snake pass.
 
LOL at taxing people more earning greater than 100k.

A good many of them work in the public sector so it's coming out of the tax payers pocket anyway.

If the government got rid of all the nothing jobs paying over 80k a year in the civil service we could probably have a half decent NHS.

Other Countries have far superior public services yet pay a lot less than £1 at the pump.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Sorry yes my mistake, all those people who earn £100k a year do so purely by being lazy and not through dedication, long hours and multi-decade long careers.
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Both of those things apply to me, and I don't earn anywhere near £100k......

I'm not saying they don't deserve that money, but saying that they 'work the hardest' is a bit of a sweeping statement TBH.
 
Rilot said:
The main thing that annoys me about fuel duty is it's a tax on the poor who are the people least able to bring about change through political influence.
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Im not sure that is the case. Seeing as there are more poor people than rich ones, they can have a greater effect at the poll booth although they wont have the lobbying powers of course.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Screw the people who work the hardest yea that sounds very New Labour actually :)

After all, I doubt many of the ultra high earners are labour voters anyway..
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So you are saying that people who earn more money work harder? Yeah right. So a Steel worker whos body is probably knackered by the time hes 45 should feel bad about himself because he hasnt earned as much as some lardy corrupt executive of a large multinational company? Or a Fireman who earns what, 30k a year, putting his life on the line to save others?

Good one!
 
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Lord-Jaffa said:
So you are saying that people who earn more money work harder? Yeah right.
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It always makes me laugh how some people are so obsessed and jealous of other peoples finances that despite not knowing what the vast majority of these people do, they can dismiss what they do so easily.
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
So you are saying that people who earn more money work harder? Yeah right. So a Steel worker whos body is probably knackered by the time hes 45 should feel bad about himself because he hasnt earned as much as some lardy corrupt executive of a large multinational company? Or a Fireman who earns what, 30k a year, putting his life on the line to save others?

Good one!
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Ah yes I forgot if its not phsyical labour it isnt 'hard work'.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Ah yes I forgot if its not phsyical labour it isnt 'hard work'.
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Aye a junior doctor working 80 hour weeks is a stroll in the park, or the investment bankers that are expected to work 10 - 14 hour days and not getting paid any more are spending their time twiddling their thumbs ;)
 
Bear said:
It always makes me laugh how some people are so obsessed and jealous of other peoples finances that despite not knowing what the vast majority of these people do, they can dismiss what they do so easily.
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Yes you clearly have me pegged! :rolleyes: You mean Dismiss what they do by saying everyone earning over 100k works harder than those who take home less. Like Firemen, or tough manual jobs like steel workers whos bodys are knackered by the time they are 45? I didnt realise money earnt vs job difficulty was such a linear thing to predict.
 
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It's not so bad as other parts of the UK dwn here I guess

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But in an average week I see it rise and fall by up to 5p a litre, the other day a local station had 96.9p/litre of unleaded and today it's 93.9p - I usually just use Texaco though and get a fivers free petrol every 500 points until this Pipeline Card thing takes off.

40MPG around town is alright I suppose but cold mornings having to drop my sister off to school and little bro before going to work if I am in the same day and if im not I do it anyway so it isn't always efficient :/
 
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