Fuel up/down again

Everywhere round here it is 137.9p - where as 15 miles away in Ipswich, it is 4-5p cheaper... :rolleyes:

I do like what Asda do and standardise their prices across their forecourts.
 
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Interesting....the forthcoming 3p duty rise has been postponed.

Chancellor George Osborne has scrapped a planned rise 3p rise in fuel duty, as he delivered his Autumn statement.

He had been expected to delay the increase until April.

But the chancellor has been forced to extend austerity measures to 2018 - and he will miss his own target for reducing the national debt.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20600442
 
I really hope they keep putting of these fuel duty increases! The price is far to high now.. Increase it on fags and Alchohol and decrease it on fuel.
 
3p per litre increase in duty cancelled !

Brilliant !

I`m really looking forward to paying more income tax instead, not.
Let`s get real, we`ll be paying it one way or another and I`d rather pay tax on fuel than on my income. Quite apart from anything else everyone has to pay fuel tax, including all those scumbags in the "cash in hand" economy, and those getting their money through criminal activities.
Funnily enough I was stuck in a huge traffic jam on the way home from work, nothing new there then, yet, apparently, fuel`s too expensive. Now that, to me, isn`t logical.
 
I have to say I really don`t understand why "enthusiastic drivers" (I don`t actually think "enthusiastic driving" is appropriate on public roads but I digress) are against high motoring taxes.
Think about it.
Assuming you work you`ll be paying the tax one way or another anyway, the only question is whether it`ll be on motoring or something else, like income tax.
I`d have thought "enthusiastic drivers" dislike too many other cars on the road because it means they can`t drive "enthusiastically", or at the very least they get frustrated stuck in congestion, even "non enthusiast drivers" like me get no pleasure at all from that. So, paradoxically, one would have thought "enthusiastic drivers" would want motoring taxes as high as possible so as to encourage (or force) some of the other buggars off the roads and onto the trains or whatever.
You know it makes sense.
 
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I have to say I really don`t understand why "enthusiastic drivers" (I don`t actually think "enthusiastic driving" is appropriate on public roads but I digress) are against high motoring taxes.
Think about it.
Assuming you work you`ll be paying the tax one way or another anyway, the only question is whether it`ll be on motoring or something else, like income tax.
I`d have thought "enthusiastic drivers" dislike too many other cars on the road because it means they can`t drive "enthusiastically", or at the very least they get frustrated stuck in congestion, even "non enthusiast drivers" like me get no pleasure at all from that. So, paradoxically, one would have thought "enthusiastic drivers" would want motoring taxes as high as possible so as to encourage (or force) some of the other buggars off the roads and onto the trains or whatever.
You know it makes sense.
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This is actually an idea which i am coming around to. We should try a stint with fuel set at £2.50/litre and see how much it reduces congestion. :o
 
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