Fed up with petrol prices!!

live'n'learn

I have to admit i am so annoyed and fed up with HIGH PETROL/DIESEL PRICES!!!

When the OIL PRICES go UP then the garages GO UP but when the OIL PRICES go down the garages are VERY SLOW and sometimes non existant on putting prices down!:sad::sad:

I just wish i had not got a 2 litre car and will def be getting a smaller car next time!!

sequence

Oil is a finite resource, that will only go up in price. Hopefully up a lot more.

live'n'learn

sequence wrote: »

Oil is a finite resource, that will only go up in price. Hopefully up a lot more.

Have i read what you said correctly? You hope it will go up more?

adamc260

I hope it doesn't go up, the job I have means getting there on public transport isn't really an option, its basically 4 busses and 2 trains a day... so if petrol goes too high thats going to drive people off the road and possibly out of jobs too which means more people on JSA simply because they cannot afford to get to work.

If some countries can sell fuel for pence per litre.. or even £2 a gallon.. I don't see why this country should be any different.

Many of us drive because public transport simply isn't a viable option.

Oh and by the way, I car share also so that lowers the number of vehicles on the road before I get some eco warrior having a go at me!

Outpost

livenlearn wrote: »

Have i read what you said correctly? You hope it will go up more?

How else would you interpret what the poster said?

Admittedly I don't agree with the sentiment, but I'm aware that there are many people in society who feel that pricing drivers out of their cars and onto public transport will help the environment.

adamc260

Outpost wrote: »

How else would you interpret what the poster said?

Admittedly I don't agree with the sentiment, but I'm aware that there are many people in society who feel that pricing drivers out of their cars and onto public transport will help the environment.

If they're going to do that, they need to dramatically improve public transport.. they need to make it actually turn up on time, be a pleasant place to be, make it reasonably priced and have A LOT more routes that run A LOT more frequently... sadly none of the above are evident where I live so I have no choice but to drive.

pitkin2020

sequence wrote: »

Oil is a finite resource, that will only go up in price. Hopefully up a lot more.

Let me guess your not a driver?? Yeah lets hope it goes up because only the drivers will be effected.....eermmm no. Everything you buy and I mean everything will rise in price as fuel prices rise so fuel prices don't just effect car owners it effects every single person in the UK who eats, wears clothes, uses gadgets and everything else. Even gas, electric and water prices are effected by fuel increases.
If fuel increases at the rate it has been a lot more businesses will go under meaning loss of jobs and a lot of lost tax from those employees, the business itself and the knock on effect it has on the suppliers to those businesses. The government will have to recoup that lost tax and recover the costs of the extra amount being paid out on JSA from some where!!!

Adams1

What is really strange is in 2000 the fuel price went up by a few god damn lousy pennies and lorry drivers went on strike nationwide causing havoc. Come 2010, prices double within a year and not a soul says a word.

The whole "price of oil has gone up" is all B.S. Fuel was 75p while we sat through a war in 2001, and 2003. Come 2010, no war, if anything, very minimum random conflicts, and prices double.

Comes to show how money is exchanging hands behind closed doors.

Adams1

Bo_Nidle wrote: »

I have a 2 litre car and enjoy it as I only do 3000 miles a year.

You could have done 6000 miles in 2009 for the same price though. This is the point the OP is trying to make.

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Passed an independent garage today while driving through a village selling unleaded for 139.9 per litre. That is the highest I've seen it. Locally it's 132.7 and 133.9.

Strider590

sequence wrote: »

Oil is a finite resource, that will only go up in price. Hopefully up a lot more.

At our current rate of consumption, we have more than enough to last 50 years.

Making an assumption on your "Hopefully up a lot more" comment and before it's mentioned by anyone else..... "global warming" doesn't exist, it was conveniently renamed to "climate change" when our cold winters started a few years ago and someone (govt scientist) pointed out that 1998 was our hottest year in the last 50, then prompty got fired.
But what exactly is "climate change"? it goes cold, it goes hot.... I think that's pretty normal for planet that's been getting hotter/colder for 4 and a half billion years.


There's no reason or need for increasing prices to such extremes, by the time it runs out we'll all be driving around in cars powered by some entirely unlimited power supply.

Greed is THE only reason.

Just like the recession we've been through and all the redundancies made by companies that weren't in trouble, but just weren't making as much profit.... Profit = bonuses for exec's, so less profit means getting rid of staff = bonuses for exec's.