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Fookin scandalous at the moment!

Over £1 a litre in sainsburys yesterday. Bloody government tax.  :x

Lick my Arse Orifice £1 for a litre!

Down in Somerset you are lucky to get less than £1.04 in the Chard area and in one ESSO garage in Yeovil it is £1.09.8 for diseasel...now thats scandalous.

is it 70p tax on petrol at the moment (roughly)?

As long as the bus fares stay the same I'm happy ;)

Its about 76% iirc of the price is tax.

I've got a bike now it's so bad

They should tax it more. Bloody cars.

and me

I was in Gibratar a couple of weeks ago, and it was 51p a litre for unleaded. Gibraltar being duty free, shows how much we being fleeced in this country.

oils going through the roof anyway though

they should sort that out, would cause a dreadful mess

When theres no food in the supermarkets or the prices go up then you'll all be moaning....

wont be long before the next petrol protest ... labour really havent got a handle on this at all

I think it's the Oil prices forced by OPEC as opposed to the government at the moment. How OPEC even exists is beyond me, cartels are not allowed within business, and should certainly not be allowed within the rich fuel community.

It's OPEC and the US that need opposing, not Labour, which is hard to believe with my dislike of Labour.

yes, but labour did just put up the tax on fuel again if i'm not mistaken?

VAT: 14.89p
Duty: 50.35p
Produciton & delivery: about 31p
Retailer: about 4p
Source: AA/Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF)

Average is now over £1 Litre. I remember my great aunt moaning when it was £1 a gallon!
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The fuel duty escalator is a Tory invention. Of course Labour won't actually abolish it  though. If they did there would be 1001 stealth taxes to make the deficit up.

What I want to know is, what happened to those angry truckers that barracaded the depots when the price hit 80 someting p/litre. Did they do a deal with the devil, because I am amazed they haven't been seen since.

I like angry truckers. They should get together with Farmers for a pitchforks and burning stuff riot

Just imagine what the price would be if the Dollar to the Pound was at around $1.50 instead of over $2, the price would probably be nearer to £1.20 a litre  :shock:  :shock:

mines 96.9 i thought that was alot!  :shock:

I've started stealing my old mans company petrol card - unfotunately his new car is a diesel so it's only a matter of time before my unleaded scam gets rumbled  8)

£1.02 a litre up here.
Robbing bastards.

Tax it more I say.

Buisness claim it back,so the "no food in supermarkets" arguement doesnt really add up.

Only the VAT.

Fuck knows what i'm paying for V Power at the local Shell.

About £1.07 a litre i think.

cheap petrol = People drive more, more cars on the roads, more roads, less badgers.

Expensive petrol = I don't care.

We've all got to make sacrifices I'm afraid, war doesn't pay for itself. I can't even smoke in a pub for fucks sake!

The money the government is losing on people not buying smokes has to come from somewhere else.

More tax on petrol and beer.

I need to drive to work, whether the petrol is cheap or expensive, so that theory wont work.

What theory? I can assure my not caring is a fact not a theory.

I think the aim is to stop people driving when they don't have to. Unfortunately that means you suffer. Lets face it though car drivers are always moaning about anything which threatens their right to be lazy selfish tossers

I drove to teh link from westlea tonight, I picked up a mate from Westlea to.  It may ruin the environment but then walking around west swindon may result in me getting stabbed or losing my wallet.  Id still drive at £2 a litre

If you have no option but to drive for work then i'm afraid you suffer.

Catching the train is an expensive business too.

I never complain about the price of fuel because it's my choice what car i drive and if it costs a fortune in fuel then so be it. I could always buy a Smart car.  :D

I'm lucky in the fact i don't need my car for anything but leisure.

Stabbed in west swindon? I thought it was a decent area?

I was using scare tactics to justify my laziness, I should write for the daily mail

I dont get it. Petrol goes up by 1p per litre, fill up a tank is about 35 litres. Thats an extra 35p. Whats the big woop?

What paper do you read daily Bushey?  :D

Daily, the advertiser.

I had you down as a Daily Mail reader  :wink:

Well if it was just 1p then that would be k.

Back in Oct 2006 the price was about 88p.  Thats a 12p jump, so thats an extra £4.20 for a 35 litre tank.  This is just one week, 52 weeks in the year, thats £218.40.

So it is quite a big rise.

Below is where i got the info from :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7082847.stm

Trains can be quite cheap these days if you buy right, the Cheltenham game cost £3 return at one point.

Strange how so many people get so irritated by the price of petrol but then go out and buy cars that do 10 miles to the gallon.  Personally I'd abolish the car tax itself and just stick that on petrol as well, that way people can make a choice about how much to spend.