Petrol at 35p a litre?

balsingh

rdwarr wrote:

Send me £100 and I'll sell you a litre of petrol for 35p. That's a 100% guaranteed promise!

I can beat that ... send me £100 and I'll sell you 2 litres of petrol for 35p!!

chuckles1066

mervyn11 wrote:

Sounds like a right scam to me
The duty & vat on a litre of fuel is around 75p
so how he can sell it for 35p is beyond me.
Would you hand over £100 to find out cos I certainly would NOT

Yep, it's a well-known (but not widely-reported) fact that even if BP, Esso, Shell et al actually *gave* their fuel away at the pumps, UK prices would still be amongst the highest in Europe because of the Government's severe taxation.

Jimmy_Neebur

There are a couple of other threads about yon scheme run by 'Motor Vehicle Protection Association'-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=370774
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=378106

Loads of neeburs in the Wee County are signing up for this including maself. I only sign up for sure things and my luck's bound to change after the Fairpak collapse, that pyramid scheme last year, trusting that email bloke that cleared out my bank account, and betting own Alloa Athletic to win the Scottish Cup this year.

Altarf

chuckles1066 wrote:

Yep, it's a well-known (but not widely-reported) fact that even if BP, Esso, Shell et al actually *gave* their fuel away at the pumps, UK prices would still be amongst the highest in Europe because of the Government's severe taxation.

It would be an interesting fact, apart from the fact it is nonsense.

If the oil companies gave the fuel away unleaded would cost 57p per litre or €0.85 per litre.

The cost of unleaded in Belgium is €1.31, in Germany is €1.23, in Netherlands is €1.31, in Italy is €1.23, in France is €1.17, in Portugal is €1.21, in Denmark is €1.25...

Prices taken from the AA for January 2007 - http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/default.asp