petrol prices going up, fill up now

Murphy_The_Cat

Ronnie i've got some bad news for you - bread has already gone up up by 3-4p a loaf and the bakeries are putting the increase solely down to the increase in price on electric, gas & road fuel. The price of raw ingredients have hardly moved at all (1p per kg on flour which again is down to increased energy costs).


MTC

AP

I am now having a self-imposed speed limit at 10% below the maximum, i.e. doing 63 mph (instead on 70) on motorways and dual carriageways with national speed limit, 54 mph on single carriageways, 45 mph on 50 mph roads etc. as I believe this will save about 10% on fuel consumption. Use of car is restricted to weekends only for family and shopping. Every day commuting is on the bus using a monthly bus pass - and travel the hell out from them!

As some people rightly say, enough is enough and we are not putting up with this forever price increase any more no matter whose fault that is!

Woby_Tide

gizmoleeds wrote:

Interestingly, an article in the Mirror this morning pointed out we are no longer the cheapest place in Europe for petrol

:eek:

Lets hope they put the prices up quick, can't have those [insert] humourless [/insert] garlic munchers being cheaper than us....*puffs out chest*:beer:

RandyRos

Woby_Tide wrote:

:eek:

Lets hope they put the prices up quick, can't have those garlic munchers being cheaper than us....*puffs out chest*

lol too right!

and where's the damn smilies gone??

balt

gizmoleeds wrote:

Interestingly, an article in the Mirror this morning pointed out we are no longer the cheapest place in Europe for petrol (Belgium, Holland, Denmark and somewhere else were all more expensive). We are on a par with Germany.

It all sounds very good saying "well as the crude price goes up the government should lower the tax so we pay the same price" - but how do you propose the government makes up the lost income??? Cutting spending or raising a different tax?

You cannot blame anyone for the rising cost of petrol - it is rising because there is not enough oil in the world to fuel our needs.

Don't you believe it, Brown set duty on an oil price around $30 a barrel so when it goes to $70 a big bonus of tax flows in. When price at pump goes up Brown makes more VAT on the increase! There should be a floating duty to offset the extra tax bonus the Government makes.

Bendybops19

Couldn't believe it when i went to get petrol yesterday at my local Texaco and it was £1.00 a litre :eek: Went else where, but it was still 98p!!! ARGH! I am as skint as anything, cant afford the petrol prices!

madfrenchgirl

what is it about Garlic Munchers.... Go On, tell us what you reallt think of continentals!!!

Murphy_The_Cat

I could tell you what I think of all continentals and not just cheese eating surrender monkeys but i fear i would be banned from the site forever !
well MFG you did ask !

MTC

before the whingers start this was a JOKEY response - if you feel that you are unable to handle a jokey response plesae let me know and i'll pull the posting

santana-mx3

gizmoleeds wrote:

It all sounds very good saying "well as the crude price goes up the government should lower the tax so we pay the same price" - but how do you propose the government makes up the lost income??? Cutting spending or raising a different tax?

While there are arguments for and against reducing tax on fuel, the argument of making up for lost income is not valid - it's just political spin that gets trotted out whenever this particular tax is queried. During the fuel protests, the government claimed that reducing tax on fuel would mean that hospitals and schools would suffer. For that to be the case, the government would have had to have allocated funds to schools and hospitals out of the tax on unexpected fuel price increases. That is unlikely to have been the case (and it would certainly be worrying if the government did rely on unexpected windfalls from oil price increases to fund health and education).

madfrenchgirl

It s OK, it is just that I dont appreciate being called funny names from a total stranger. How would you like me to call you Rosbif?

For the original subject: we should start a campaign, cos posting on a thread will not get us anywhere... MARTIN?!?!?! ARE YOU THERE?