Fuel prices at the pumps should have goen down weeks ago not up

RogerBareford

diystarter7 said:

user1977 said:

diystarter7 said:

the 46% tax needs to be reduced 

What would you rather pay tax on instead?

Massive rises in smoking/vapping taxes and alcohol. I do drink and if there was tax rises on my brandy etc, I'd pay and its easier to manage without a drink then to drive to work etc.

Putting tax on something and then avoiding that tax by not using that product doesn't help the government raise the lost tax revenue.

It sounds like you want to reduce tax on something you use and then put it onto something else you don't use or don't need to use so you can avoid paying it. So you basically want other people to pay extra tax so you can pay less which isn't a viable solution.

Grumpy_chap

ontheroad1970 said:

Note also that he/she has children who drive around with their air con all the time.  I wonder which cars they use?

diystarter7 said:

7 years seems to be the norm for battery life for day to day, non-business used cars. Mine went at 7 years on two cars as did my daughters, all were Fords and one was a BMW.

HTH       

Grumpy_chap

I think it was the Ford M C-Class

sevenhills

Bigphil1474 said:

I think the reference to profiteering is in relation to how quickly petrol prices go up, and how slow they come down, following changes to the actual cost of production and supply.

That process has happened for decades, with petrol and food stuffs.
There are independent retailers and the supermarket stations, they all compete on price.
Most petrol stations with retail stores attached actually make more money from sales other than petrol.

Flight3287462

Do we have a new Dark Matter to enjoy?

ontheroad1970

Flight3287462 said:

Do we have a new Dark Matter to enjoy?

No.  Far more annoying than DM

DB1904

diystarter7 said:

Incredible. Dad asked me to fill up his whilst I borrowed it today to bring some chairs.
He said fill her up and gave me his cc.
Dad often uses Morrisons but every second top-up he uses BP as he feels their fuel is better
and treats the car.

I said to dad there has been a 10p difference between Morrisons and bP standard diesel - so we agreed if it was up to 5p 
diff I'd fill at bP

BP station comes first their standard diesel as has been for about a week, 199.9 then went to Morrisons, it was also 199.9 and only a few days ago it was just shy of 196 I think. Incredible.

Filled the car up cost just shy of 180 quid. - Had to pay twice to get a full tank as limit was 100 quid, incredible

So you committed fraud?