Diesel Prices

SCO

Why are diesel prices so high?

I have seen up to 10-11 pence diffrence between petrol and diesel. Yet other places at times can be 1-2p diffrence.

Its about time MSE sets up another e-petition to get a commons debate on the diffrence in grades.

This is costing jobs in the haulage industry amongst others.

Prices are high enough without diesel drivers being punished even more.

forgotmyname

A petition has recently been filed and will get its 10 seconds of fame, Then laughed at and ignored.


Whats the point of filing another one?


The only way you will get anything done is make the MP's pay for their own transport costs with no option of claiming
it back through expenses.

See how they like paying 20% of their wages travelling to and from work.

gilbert_and_sullivan

forgotmyname wrote: »

The only way you will get anything done is make the MP's pay for their own transport costs with no option of claiming
it back through expenses.

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Just saw a pig soaring past our bedroom window, then remembered we live in a bungalow.

SCO

forgotmyname wrote: »

The only way you will get anything done is make the MP's pay for their own transport costs with no option of claiming
it back through expenses.

See how they like paying 20% of their wages travelling to and from work.

Agreed, 60k a year is the headline figure for MP's must be more like 80k with all the claims they make.

About time there was no expenses.

grizzly1911

Just posted this on another one:-

Just noticed our local station (Supermarket premium site) now has a spread of 10p with diesel @ 1.44:eek:

Wouldn't mind but it just off the M6. 9 miles away Shell are 1.38:(

I could shave another 2p off that by going another 2 miles.

Unless the issue is kept in their face they will ignore it.

It costs us all through transport, food, goods and hits rural communities hard when there is no viable public transport alternative.

attila_

I'm failing to see what you're issue is? Is it

a) you cant believe how much more expensive diesel is over petrol

b) you're not happy with the variation in price between one pump and another

c) you are generally not happy with the overall cost of diesel/petrol

When will people stop thinking fuel in a tank is right and not a luxury? If something is too expensive walk away....

there must be at least 2-3 posts like this per month.

SCO

attila_ wrote: »

When will people stop thinking fuel in a tank is right and not a luxury? If something is too expensive walk away....

I can't agree with you completly on that.

Yes if you live in a town/city where there is public transport i can see how you believe a car/fuel is a luxury, but if you live just outside a town generaly there is no public transport or limited service so a car/fuel becomes a need not luxury.

As described above this is costing jobs and puts the price of everything up in the shops so everyone even the people that dont drive suffer.

Most other European countries have diesel cheaper through taxation.

The Westminister Government doesent seem to care about jobs or the economy as with prices rising again this week and there fuel tax rise due in January this will soon become too much for businsses/people.

bengalknights

How about a petition to have all MP travel expenses removed?

gilbert_and_sullivan

SCO wrote: »

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The Westminister Government doesent seem to care about jobs or the economy as with prices rising again this week and there fuel tax rise due in January this will soon become too much for businsses/people.

This is hardly new is it, they get paid well, expensed very well and pensioned extremely well for a very short career in most cases, then hand over to the next bunch of trough feeders, who then blame the previous lot...ad infinitum.

There is no performance or hours worked part to the pay, no one comes along 5 years after their often ludicrous decisions and takes a portion of their golden pension back, or bills them for the £billions their self seeking glories have cost the following generations.

'They' for the last 40 years have done little for our country, Thatcher sold the family silver and north sea oil to keep the books looking good whilst our manufacturing base melted away before our very eyes, the oafs who followed her really couldn't run a booze up in a brewery.

It's all over bar the shouting, the country is ruined, our politicians with a brainwashed electorate's (not mine) blessing via humourous elections did it.

Taxing it's own citizens of the last few quid they have left is about the only way a failed state can pay back the interest only on the vast defecit.

cutandshut

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

This is hardly new is it, they get paid well, expensed very well and pensioned extremely well for a very short career in most cases, then hand over to the next bunch of trough feeders, who then blame the previous lot...ad infinitum.

There is no performance or hours worked part to the pay, no one comes along 5 years after their often ludicrous decisions and takes a portion of their golden pension back, or bills them for the £billions their self seeking glories have cost the following generations.

'They' for the last 40 years have done little for our country, Thatcher sold the family silver and north sea oil to keep the books looking good whilst our manufacturing base melted away before our very eyes, the oafs who followed her really couldn't run a booze up in a brewery.

It's all over bar the shouting, the country is ruined, our politicians with a brainwashed electorate's (not mine) blessing via humourous elections did it.

Taxing it's own citizens of the last few quid they have left is about the only way a failed state can pay back the interest only on the vast defecit.

Then why not stand for Parliament yourself ?

Anybody can put themselves up for election - there are no qualifications required.

grizzly1911

cutandshut wrote: »

Anybody can put themselves up for election - there are no qualifications required.

Or common sense for the majority who can actually make something happen.