Petrol Prices !!! Im sick of it....

mustrum_ridcully

saxo_appeal - a graduate of the New Labour school of statistics???

AA figures for May 2008 http://www.theaa.com/onlinenews/allaboutcars/fuel/2008/may2008.pdf

UK average (p/litre - unleaded) 112.6
Belgium 124.07
Denmark 120.12
Finland 118.27
France 112.62
Netherlands 129.40
Italy 116.84
Norway 130.53 (a country with a bigger oil industry that the UK)
Portugal 117.23
Sweden 115.43

Oh and Germany is 112.14 p / litre so not too far behind.

anewman

antwilson wrote: »

fill this in to get fuel duty lowered http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Lowerduty30/

Fill this in to get a snobby e-mail response from the Government which tries to sound like they care and are making loads of effort to keep fuel prices down, but in the end they just mean they don't give a f***.

I cannot think of one example of one of those petitions resulting in any change in Government decisions or policy. You would think in a supposedly democratic society they would have at least committed to supporting some suggestions from the petition site.

The petitions system is pointless and stupid IMO.

inspector_monkfish

anewman wrote: »

Fill this in to get a snobby e-mail response from the Government which tries to sound like they care and are making loads of effort to keep fuel prices down, but in the end they just mean they don't give a f***.

I cannot think of one example of one of those petitions resulting in any change in Government decisions or policy. You would think in a supposedly democratic society they would have at least committed to supporting some suggestions from the petition site.

The petitions system is pointless and stupid IMO.

don't sign it then

davetrousers

The wording of the peteition is this "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Reduce Fuel duty to bring fuel prices back to an acceptable level."

That's it! not very comprehensive is it?

anewman

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

don't sign it then

Yes I don't bother wasting my time with them anymore. Until I hear the story that one petition on there has changed something I can't be bothered.

antwilson

Ive just had this from petrolprices.com in the daily email as well http://www.petrolprices.com/blog/deal-99.html

The petition is backed by the AA, the RAC, the Conservative Party and dozens of Labour MP's. Past petitions and protests have failed due to a lack of organisation and awareness, but with the cost of fuel currently rocketing and the government on the back foot, now seems like the ideal time to push for action. This petition, with the support of an influential newspaper, respected motoring groups, MP's and PetrolPrices.com members, has the power to force Gordon Brown to rethink plans to raise motoring taxes.

Signing it only takes a few seconds - might not be as good as what the french would do, but better than nothing! worth a try

inspector_monkfish

anewman wrote: »

Yes I don't bother wasting my time with them anymore. Until I hear the story that one petition on there has changed something I can't be bothered.

Jolly good!

anewman

antwilson wrote: »

Ive just had this from petrolprices.com in the daily email as well http://www.petrolprices.com/blog/deal-99.html

Signing it only takes a few seconds - might not be as good as what the french would do, but better than nothing! worth a try

I'll sign the telegraph one but not the !!!!!! we don't really give a f 10 downing street site petition.

movilogo

The OP's post has a big flaw! It lists absolute price of petrol around the world. In most developed countries, even that low price is very high when compared with their average income levels.

Ranting over petrol price won't bring it down Rather buy a smaller & fuel efficient car or use bicycle

gardner1

womble100 wrote: »

:j its brill.keep those petrol prices going up.more cars off the road and we can stop breathing fumes in.:D

the tree huggers must love seeing petrol prices going up whilst spouting all the rubbish about using CHEAP CLEAN AND RELIABLE public transport

god i love my 30 mpg car
use public transport not in a month of sundays:D