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MSE News: 'Oi, David Cameron, sort out petrol prices!'
Former_MSE_Darryl
Posts: 210 Forumite
in Motoring
"Oi, David Cameron, it's time to sort out petrol prices! That's the number one consumer issue people would tell the Prime Minister to address, according to a poll of over 13,000 MoneySavingExpert.com users...."
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Why has no one thought of this before?
Wouldn't expect people on a 'money saving site' to demand lower prices.
What next, alcoholics anonymous crying for cheaper booze?0 -
Imagine, someone surveyed a load of people and asked them if they would pay less for the stuff they buy if they could. Cant imagine what the reply would be...
Also, what price would they consider an 'OK' price to pay. 50p a litre, £1, etc?0 -
Other way to look at it - this site has well over 1000000 visitors a month, and of them only 13000 want to see lower prices. So 98.7% are happy with the way things are, or impartial to them being increased.
I'm good at spin.0 -
It's always "petrol" prices, most business and long distance drivers, including road transport, use DIESEL. Petrol in the UK is about on a par with France, Germany, etc. whereas diesel is about 15p/litre more expensive in the UK, making our businesses uncompetitive and seriously damaging any hope of economic recovery. Forget bleating about the 3p/l what about the 15p/l? And can we please start referring to FUEL prices.0
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Other way to look at it - this site has well over 1000000 visitors a month, and of them only 13000 want to see lower prices. So 98.7% are happy with the way things are, or impartial to them being increased.
I'm good at spin.
Unfortunately thats actually the truth when you think about it.
It took around 1 week for 100k people to sign a petition to get the SAS soldier who kept a gun released from prison. 1 week.
When FairFuelUK ran their petition it took 3-4 MONTHS to get the same number of signatures - for britains hated fuel duty tax. People love to moan about it but actually doing anything about it is beyond most because they don't actually want it to come down when they could just let it go up and have something to moan about.
I used to laugh when I was young when foreigners used to say britains were known around the world for their moaning but its the utter truth. We're a nation that loves to be walked all over.0 -
Politicians don't care about the cost of energy prices/fuel prices because they earn enough to not have to worry like millions of us do!
The government moan about people using their cars too much, it's a good job we do because without all the extra revenue they scam... sorry gain off drivers they'd have to make up that short fall somewhere else!
What they seem to blind to is the fact that companies go out of business due to the rising cost of fuel, everything goes up in price due to transport costs or items get smaller to compensate for the extra companies are paying to transport them.
All in all, we all get shafted not once but twice!0 -
Increases in fuel duty particularly diesel costs this country jobs.
Foreign hauliers are able to undercut British hauliers because they purchase cheaper fuel abroad and use our roads for free.
Increases in duty are also partly responsible for higher inflation.
There is an alternative - stop giving foreign aid to dictators and those spending huge amounts on weapons - particularly those developing weapons.0 -
Politicians don't care about the cost of energy prices/fuel prices because they earn enough to not have to worry like millions of us do!
The government moan about people using their cars too much, it's a good job we do because without all the extra revenue they scam... sorry gain off drivers they'd have to make up that short fall somewhere else!
What they seem to blind to is the fact that companies go out of business due to the rising cost of fuel, everything goes up in price due to transport costs or items get smaller to compensate for the extra companies are paying to transport them.
All in all, we all get shafted not once but twice!
Let me ask you something: Did you sign the FairFuelUK petition? - Please be honest.0 -
When I started driving, petrol was about 68p a gallon or 15p a litre. I took home £15 a week as an apprentice, so say a skilled man was on double that, £30 a week and spent all his wages on 4* as it was then, he could buy approx 200 litres. Today 200 litres would cost around £280, which is well under what a skilled man takes home these days.
Also my old Hillman Hunter was solid but would only give me 20-25 m.p.g. a similar sized car now would be returning maybe 40 m.p.g. so yes it hurts to fill my car for around £80 a time but not sure it is any more expensive than it was in "the good old days"0 -
Politicians like the current unelected PM don't actually care a jot what we the plebs want, if cast iron dave was a man of his word he'd have authorised a in/out referendum on the EU and we would now be working our notice out.
If you want change you first have to remove those who want what you don't want, seeing as the three cheeks of the same backside party otherwise known as the LibLabCon party all want continued susbservience to the EUSSR, then that means voting for someone else who doesn't, and the electorate don't have the gumption to do that for a variety of reasons.
Seeing as the electorate lack the courage to do whats needed, you are therefore committed to the EU and to all the climate change rubbish that the present regime are signed up to (and their mates and relatives coining it in from the subsidies) namely windmills and other idiotic ideas that don't work, and those net taxpayers who fund the system will pay for it all.
The exhorbitant taxes levied on taxes on fuel will continue until the electorate revolt or the country eventually goes bankrupt, probably about the same time.
Welcome to the world you allowed to happen.
The electorate get the government and the system they deserve.0
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