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Caporegime
best country for that is Venezuela
its $0.03 a litre. last time the government tried to revoke the subsidies, there were riots that lasted for weeks.
its $0.03 a litre. last time the government tried to revoke the subsidies, there were riots that lasted for weeks.
Associate
It's 67p a litre here in Australia and people are up in arms. 
They just don't know how good they've got it.
I'm not complaining though... I'm about to get a 3.6Litre Holden SV6 as my company car.
They just don't know how good they've got it.
I'm not complaining though... I'm about to get a 3.6Litre Holden SV6 as my company car.
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thats a lot of cheap petrol !!!!!!!!!! lol
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So why arent these countries buying fuel at wholesale and selling it to us brits at a lower price than here but still at a profit to them?
It's 67p a litre here in Australia and people are up in arms.
They just don't know how good they've got it.
I'm not complaining though... I'm about to get a 3.6Litre Holden SV6 as my company car.
Im sure we can organise an OcUK tanker or freight plane to come and collect some of that cheap fuel?
Caporegime
Cheapest I've seen was in Cyprus for 18p a litre 
Soldato
**** I could be paying just over 1p per litre in Venezuela?! What the poo-poo?!
And hi Dreadi
don't swear - masked or not. FF.
And hi Dreadi
don't swear - masked or not. FF.
Caporegime
And hi Dreadi
Dude, no swears
I could probably shout that and you'd be able to hear
Soldato
These things just don't add up.
People on here and elsewhere are saying that the oil companies and refineries (How many billion did Shell make last year?) can't afford to sell it cheaper. How can this be if it can cost 67p per litre in Australia with presumably little or no government subsidy?
Also if the weak link profit wise is the refineries i don't see how this works either. We don't buy the fuel from the refineries, we buy from Shell, BP, Texaco and other big OIL companies who are all anouncing these massive profits. I know oil generates more than just petrol and diesel but come on, how many billion litres of petrol and diesel are we using every day? this must account for a large proporion of their turnover and also their profits.
It's pointless going on about tax cuts or (If only!!) government subsidy becasue it just isn't going to happen. The government can't afford to do it, people have got to travel so they have us by the short and curlies.
May be i'm being too simplistic, but as i see it the result is we get ripped off by both the oil companies and the government
People on here and elsewhere are saying that the oil companies and refineries (How many billion did Shell make last year?) can't afford to sell it cheaper. How can this be if it can cost 67p per litre in Australia with presumably little or no government subsidy?
Also if the weak link profit wise is the refineries i don't see how this works either. We don't buy the fuel from the refineries, we buy from Shell, BP, Texaco and other big OIL companies who are all anouncing these massive profits. I know oil generates more than just petrol and diesel but come on, how many billion litres of petrol and diesel are we using every day? this must account for a large proporion of their turnover and also their profits.
It's pointless going on about tax cuts or (If only!!) government subsidy becasue it just isn't going to happen. The government can't afford to do it, people have got to travel so they have us by the short and curlies.
May be i'm being too simplistic, but as i see it the result is we get ripped off by both the oil companies and the government
These things just don't add up.
People on here and elsewhere are saying that the oil companies and refineries (How many billion did Shell make last year?) can't afford to sell it cheaper. How can this be if it can cost 67p per litre in Australia with presumably little or no government subsidy?
Also if the weak link profit wise is the refineries i don't see how this works either. We don't buy the fuel from the refineries, we buy from Shell, BP, Texaco and other big OIL companies who are all anouncing these massive profits. I know oil generates more than just petrol and diesel but come on, how many billion litres of petrol and diesel are we using every day? this must account for a large proporion of their turnover and also their profits.
It's pointless going on about tax cuts or (If only!!) government subsidy becasue it just isn't going to happen. The government can't afford to do it, people have got to travel so they have us by the short and curlies.
May be i'm being too simplistic, but as i see it the result is we get ripped off by both the oil companies and the government
I suppose, it could be that Oz is a smaller country with a smaller populace, which leads to smaller Tax overhead, which leads to less tax?
Similar countries to ours pay about the same for Petrol, Germany and France certainly.
Fuel is uber cheap all over the Mid east TBH.But its the same here, 750cl(ml?) of water can cost a Quid
Caporegime
because we pay twice as much tax on petrol as the ozzies do. i think that we pay 67p a litre in tax alone !
Soldato
I know we pay a huge amount of tax on our fuel. According to wikipedia (For want of a better source) it's just over 50p per litre. We also pay VAT before this duty is added.
So what does the fuel itself actually cost in this country?
rough calculation based on £1.06/litre gives 56p/litre after VAT. So it's going to be about 47ish/litre before VAT.
So how on earth can it be 18p/litre in Cyprus and still be being sold at a profit??