The rising price of Petrol

[duggie]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

What a load of bollocks. Did someone's parrot write that email? If so, it must have been drunk.

There is one simple solution to the price of fuel - keep your car in the garage (or even better, scrap it) - then walk. Some of you might even get reasonably fit, so that hopefully in the next few weeks or months, we won't get the clinically obese characters coming on here complaining about longer queues for NHS treatment.

All well and good if you walk about 20 miles a week, I drive 25000 miles a year, I would never see the wife, mmm, perhaps it's not a bad idea

[park381]

Originally Posted by duggie

approx 90 pence per ltr is tax, it's the goverment we need to be protested against not the garages,
United Kingdom
Main article: Hydrocarbon oil duty
From 4th January 2011 the UK duty rate for the road fuels unleaded petrol, diesel, biodiesel and bioethanol is GB£0.5895 per litre (£2.65 per imperial gallon or £2.20 per U.S. gallon).[3] Value Added Tax at 20% is also charged on the price of the fuel and on the duty.

Using the UK average untaxed pump price for unleaded petrol of £0.4572 per litre (from the December 2010 average taxed price of £1.221 per litre,[4] the duty rate of £0.5819 per litre[3] and the then VAT rate of 17.5%) this would give a January 2011 taxed price of £1.256 per litre (£5.71 per imperial gallon or £4.75 per U.S. gallon) - that is equivalent to a tax rate of 175%.

Diesel for use by farmers and construction vehicles is coloured red (Red Diesel) and has a much reduced tax, currently £0.1133 per litre.[3]

Jet fuel used for international aviation attracts no duty, and no VAT

Nice one duggie, I agree on the UK tax, but why are the oil companies making great big profits, it would suggest that the product is over priced to start with even before hm.gov get their tax bit

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

What a load of bollocks. Did someone's parrot write that email? If so, it must have been drunk.

There is one simple solution to the price of fuel - keep your car in the garage (or even better, scrap it) - then walk. Some of you might even get reasonably fit, so that hopefully in the next few weeks or months, we won't get the clinically obese characters coming on here complaining about longer queues for NHS treatment.

Your advice is fine and dandy if you are talking about local distances, but many many people have to work.......and unfortunately for them the work isn't always on the doorstep. Transport is necessary, and you cannot rely on public transport if you have a job with even slightly unsocial hours I'm talking 6pm here...... as some buses stop running at 5pm.

Shopping......now there is another thorny problem, mother with two children needs to stock up her cupboards.......corner shops are long gone......their demise hastened by the likes of Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's........ walking to the shops might prove no problem,but coming back with the children and bags of food........?does the mother buy a donkey and cart to take her to the shops and bring back the food?


Do you live in the real world? Do you live off beer and fags?
I'm pretty sure you will have a smart come-back answer........but for some people a car is a necessity.

[park381]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

What a load of bollocks. Did someone's parrot write that email? If so, it must have been drunk.

There is one simple solution to the price of fuel - keep your car in the garage (or even better, scrap it) - then walk. Some of you might even get reasonably fit, so that hopefully in the next few weeks or months, we won't get the clinically obese characters coming on here complaining about longer queues for NHS treatment.

Someone light your candle Tealeaf. why not join me on the golf course twice a week, that's in winter, JJB gym twice a week..... don't talk to me about getting fit, the offer is there come and join me

[DaveinGermany]

It's easy money, as simple as that ! Governments all over are raking it in to fill budget holes so sadly it's going to be a fact of life & it ain't going to get any better ! Living in Germany we do have some limited choices, we can cut across to Holland to fill up. Saturday morning 8 pumps 6/7 cars queuing at each pump, all German registrations & this goes on all day !

Then there are the other borders Poland/Austria/Belgium/Czech Rep/Luxembourg just to name a few & most of these have considerably less duties on their fuels so we get "Tank tourists", it worried the Germans that much there was talk about garages in Border areas getting dispensation to reduce the fuel price to stop people buying abroad !

Sadly in UK you're stuck on an Island so can't benefit by such an expedient so the Government of the day have definitely got the Public by the Pubics !

[park381]

Hey Less what's the problem, each time I try to reply to your post I get "server error" so here we go

I knew you would find an answer

£100+ to fill a "small van"............what's the saying ' you goda be ...........'

Bus passes, what's your problem with them..............you can borrow mine if you like

It looks like you

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by park381

Someone light your candle Tealeaf. why not join me on the golf course twice a week, that's in winter, JJB gym twice a week..... don't talk to me about getting fit, the offer is there come and join me

Golf Course? That's a fairies game, if ever there was one. You'll burn more energy spending an hour or so sticking stamps in a stamp album than fooling around with a stick and a little ball twice a week.

[Less]

Originally Posted by park381

Hey Less what's the problem, each time I try to reply to your post I get "server error" so here we go

You'd better not have broken accyweb with this rubbish thread of yours.

I knew you would find an answer

Unfortunately it would have been better if YOU had checked but there again this thread is showing you up for what you are.

£100+ to fill a "small van"............what's the saying ' you goda be ...........'

Unfortunately that is the way of it '9 months of Tory misrule' and all that.

[park381]

Originally Posted by Less

You'd better not have broken accyweb with this rubbish thread of yours.

Your doing not mine, you are the techno kid

Unfortunately it would have been better if YOU had checked but there again this thread is showing you up for what you are.

You have done it for me, all I did was to post an e-mail

Unfortunately that is the way of it '9 months of Tory misrule' and all that.

why not sell the van or scrap it, as Tealeaf recommends

What about the bus pass Less?

[park381]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Golf Course? That's a fairies game, if ever there was one. You'll burn more energy spending an hour or so sticking stamps in a stamp album than fooling around with a stick and a little ball twice a week.

Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood, Paul Casey are all mega rich because of the "fairies game" as you call it. If you fancy a try at the fairies game just ask.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by park381

Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood, Paul Casey are all mega rich because of the "fairies game" as you call it. If you fancy a try at the fairies game just ask.

No thanks. Some of us have our pride and self respect.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

No thanks. Some of us have our pride and self respect.

well you aint that much........after all yeh stand wi us up the stanley.

[park381]

Just for Less a bit more information

Sainsbury's Fuel - Company Information - PetrolPrices.com supplied by BP they think

Asda Fuel - Company Information - PetrolPrices.com used to be Teaxaco or Esso now their own brand

Morrisons Fuel - Company Information - PetrolPrices.com once Shell then Texaco now their own brand

Tesco Fuel - Company Information - PetrolPrices.com once Gulf,Texaco or BP now their own brand, but have opened Tesco Express shops at Esso sites

So you see nearly all the big supermarkets sell their own brand of fuel, but where do they get it.

They buy it on the wholesale market and it is whoever is cheapest on the day, it could be BP, Shell, Total or anybody else frankly.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Surely if everyone avoided buying petrol at either a BP or Esso filling station it would have some impact on their sales.
However, the government is laughing all the way to the bank because of the windfall in tax caused by the rising prices.
Don't the fools realise that this rise is going to affect almost everything that is hauled around the country? A hike in inflation is just what we need right now!(NOT)

[park381]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Surely if everyone avoided buying petrol at either a BP or Esso filling station it would have some impact on their sales.
However, the government is laughing all the way to the bank because of the windfall in tax caused by the rising prices.
Don't the fools realise that this rise is going to affect almost everything that is hauled around the country? A hike in inflation is just what we need right now!(NOT)

I am in total agreement with you......wonder how long defore taxi fares go up as well