Apathy to petrol prices

anewman

goldspanners wrote: »

thats right, tax the high earners more so they leave the country all together. then that means less tax income for the country so we are left with even worse books to balance.

Great, I can has their job :money: I wouldn't be complaining - and I might even do it better than they did. If I was earning more I'd be happy it was going to something useful. I wouldn't begrudge tax and spend hours of my time, or pay someone else, to procrastinate over all the little things that can be done to avoid taxes like most of the highest earners do. I'd realise there's no reason I should earn silly money like £400,000 a year and still pay the same percentage tax as someone who earns £34,600.

goldspanners wrote: »

it could work out cheaper for smaller companies to upsticks and move to poland (or the likes) with lower wage bills on top of every other outgoing and still export thier product to britain beating our price manufacturing it here. this is why our county is f**ked.

Already happening on a massive scale.

goldspanners wrote: »

sort out the scum who can but won't work then you might see a better country,dont increase minimum wage to match benifits,cut benifits so it works out better for the bums all over this country to get out and get a job,any kind of job.

Or increase tax on their super strength beer and cider, and ciggies?

To have an entire country working the jobs have to be there. There aren't enough jobs for the people who want them, never mind adding the losers who don't want to work to the queue. Let them sit on their !!!!!! IMO give the people who want the jobs a better chance! If they don't want to work, used to doing sweet f.a. all day long - they're hardly going to be productive in the workplace.

I think we need to give Darling a magic wand to fix everything with because he sure needs it

Wig

Oil is only $75 a barrel at the moment, The price of oil recently crashed, but we didn't have a similar crash in the price of fuel. Previously fuel went only went over the £1 barrier when oil went over $120 barrell and went to £1.10 litre when oil hit $140 barrell.

I keep noticing the cost of fuel rocketing at the pumps but see no comments in the press about why it is doing so given the price of oil at the moment. No-one is questioning anybody on this issue. And all the drivers (oblivious to the actual price of oil) keep blindly paying whatever is asked of them.

Except me, I use LPG @ 44p litre and my LPG isn't sky rocketing it's remaining pretty constant where it's always been for the last 18 months or so. Go figure!

jackieb

The oil companies have been cutting back drastically lately. Everything's quite slow at the moment - new projects being postponed as jobs were priced when the oil price was high, now the oil prices have dropped some of the jobs are no longer viable and quite a few people have been laid off. My husband said he's not going to complain about the price of petrol because he'd rather pay more for petrol and have a job, than have lower prices and no job. He said things are supposed to pick up early in the New Year.

The_Banker_5

I dont care really.

I'd pay £10 a gallon from tomorrow if it drastically reduced the number of motorists on the roads.;)

goldspanners

anewman wrote: »

Great, I can has their job :money: I wouldn't be complaining - and I might even do it better than they did. If I was earning more I'd be happy it was going to something useful. I wouldn't begrudge tax and spend hours of my time, or pay someone else, to procrastinate over all the little things that can be done to avoid taxes like most of the highest earners do. I'd realise there's no reason I should earn silly money like £400,000 a year and still pay the same percentage tax as someone who earns £34,600.


Already happening on a massive scale.

he will still have his job regardless of where he lives in the world (within reason obviously) so that means theres still no job for you. he a fairly intellegent guy who is an engineer on some fairly complexed and very expensive engineering projects and works very long shifts away from home a lot of the time. he works hard for his good wage so why take half of it away from him (if the governments new plans come into force) in tax to fund the lazy scum on the streets?
hes worked for it so deserves it.

why would anyone take a job that means you still have the high resposobilities but need to pay more in tax,surely it would make sense to leave the country or do a job with lower pay with lower responsobilities?

soon they will bring back a tax on how many windows you have on your house.

higher tax on the rich is just pushing the rich out of the country,as you know by saying that companies moving out of britain is happening on a massive scale.

i am by no means rich but if i was and you wanted half of my wages i wouldnt be hanging around here. it annoys me seeing what my tax is already funding in this country never mind if i was paying more tax watching people openly abuse our benefit system with nothing being done to stop it,because the folk who should stop it are also on the take in one way or another as well

nomoneytoday

The highest level tax payers can afford better Accountants, and the low paid on benefits don't pay any either, so the bill goes to the middle earners...

Shirl63

Thank you everybody nice to know SOME people are worried about the raising fuel cost (£109.9 in Hertfordshire today) without any explanation.
Come on Martin - start ruffling some feathers for us!!!

vikingaero

Is fuel currently taxed at 15% VAT? If so when VAT increases back to 17.5% then that's more on the price of fuel from 01/01/2010

COSTLYPETROL

I have noticed that petrol at Tesco in my area is 5p per litre dearer than their store 6 miles away.

The "customer service" people simply do not care.

Others tell me the price of petrol at Tesco stores varies from town to town.

I now buy at Asda where it is 5p cheaper.

I do not know of any organisation that cares about this blatant theft of our money. The politicians most certainly do not care.

Anybody any ideas how to get the prices reduced?

davetrousers

Shirl63 wrote: »

Thank you everybody nice to know SOME people are worried about the raising fuel cost (£109.9 in Hertfordshire today) without any explanation.

Gosh £109.9 a litre is expensive I paid 107.9p this morning! A hundred times cheaper in my locale.