Fuel costs set to rise tomorrow

Former_MSE_Guy

This thread is to discuss the following news article:

Fuel costs set to rise tomorrow

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Cue long queues of idiots blocking the roads for 20 minutes at a time to save 60p.

Bongedone

Probably waste more than 60p of fuel if they have the engine running.

Seriously though. The government should have left stopped the tax rise, due to the present circumstances.

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

Bongedone wrote: »

Probably waste more than 60p of fuel if they have the engine running.

Seriously though. The government should have left stopped the tax rise, due to the present circumstances.

Dont really agree

The fuel costs fell dramatically from last year and the duties need to go up some time, right now seems as good as any.

Locknut

And why exacly does the duty need to go up? dont we get bent over enough for our fuel in this country!:mad:

Bongedone

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

Dont really agree

The fuel costs fell dramatically from last year and the duties need to go up some time, right now seems as good as any.

Why does the duty need to go up? Does it go up perpetually? Does it stop at say, hmmm 100%?

swiftnick

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

Dont really agree

The fuel costs fell dramatically from last year and the duties need to go up some time, right now seems as good as any.

I think that was the refineries that were hiking the price up not the duty tax.

adecor

Slightly changing the subject - I wish they'd put road tax onto fuel (instead of paying a fixed price for it) as that way some of the huge proportion of foreign lorries would be paying something to us for assisting in ruining our roads!

hewhoisnotintheknow

dont really mind too much, money needs to be raised one way or another

Keith

Stangely my local Tesco put another 1p on fuel today, on top of the 1p it went up last week.

Mids_Costcutter

Jplocksmiths wrote: »

And why exacly does the duty need to go up? dont we get bent over enough for our fuel in this country!:mad:

Are fuel prices in Britain really that high anyway? A comparison in January from the AA across 24 other European countries showed that GB was among the cheapest for unleaded petrol, although diesel was on the high side.

See:

http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/