7p a litre fuel tax increase from tonight
06 December 2006, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ChefDude
8p a gallon lol
so if you do 20K miles a year and get 25mpg, that's 64 quid a year more.
not a lot really.
If i don't have lunch for 4 days, I'll have recouped that lol
I guess it's more of a principle thing tho, so I'm with you all on that one.
so if you do 20K miles a year and get 25mpg, that's 64 quid a year more.
not a lot really.
If i don't have lunch for 4 days, I'll have recouped that lol
I guess it's more of a principle thing tho, so I'm with you all on that one.
06 December 2006, 02:07 PM
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God I am starting to hate this country.
All this talk of how great we are doing as a country by Brown bears no ressemblance to the reality. It's fundamential social problems that need addressing to improve quality of life. He can carry on pumping billions into this and that while lowering standards and we pick up the tab for dearing to use our motor cars. Makes me sick... how much tax I pay and how little I actually get in return for it other than seeing my country slowly being flushed down the toilet. Unemployment 7% now, huge personal debt, social problems, ever increasing tax burden, poor quality of life in our overcrowed little island - remember "things can only get better"... lol what a load of nonsense, much worse now and the damage is virtually irreperable.
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All this talk of how great we are doing as a country by Brown bears no ressemblance to the reality. It's fundamential social problems that need addressing to improve quality of life. He can carry on pumping billions into this and that while lowering standards and we pick up the tab for dearing to use our motor cars. Makes me sick... how much tax I pay and how little I actually get in return for it other than seeing my country slowly being flushed down the toilet. Unemployment 7% now, huge personal debt, social problems, ever increasing tax burden, poor quality of life in our overcrowed little island - remember "things can only get better"... lol what a load of nonsense, much worse now and the damage is virtually irreperable.
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06 December 2006, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave1980
W*nkers might be time to move abroad sooner than planned i think.
Just as well my scooby is only for weekend use, use diesel renault the rest of the time.
Just as well my scooby is only for weekend use, use diesel renault the rest of the time.
Moving out of the country because fuel has gone up 1.5p a litre
**** that.
06 December 2006, 03:25 PM
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in 99 when i first started driving it was 69.9 - by 2009 its going to be about £1.20 a litre! that will suck ****! 30p a litre over 10 years! i put 60 litres in week.
06 December 2006, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by ChefDude
8p a gallon lol
so if you do 20K miles a year and get 25mpg, that's 64 quid a year more.
not a lot really.
If i don't have lunch for 4 days, I'll have recouped that lol
I guess it's more of a principle thing tho, so I'm with you all on that one.
so if you do 20K miles a year and get 25mpg, that's 64 quid a year more.
not a lot really.
If i don't have lunch for 4 days, I'll have recouped that lol
I guess it's more of a principle thing tho, so I'm with you all on that one.
We could also say that when/if road pricing comes in, we'll be paying extra for that too. Raod Tax has risen too
So with all that extra cost, £64 a year extra in fuel duty soon adds up.
06 December 2006, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by suprabeast
Whats a carbon zero home??
Is that one without electricity or gas?? or people living in it?
Is that one without electricity or gas?? or people living in it?
Do you have Central heating sir? A fridge, cooker?
Yes
To bad, you don't qualify ............... Tax please.
On the plus side, if we are getting Global warming we won't need Central heating, so we might just qualify
Or, we could just wait a few hundred million years for the sun to get hotter.
06 December 2006, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by suprabeast
Whats a carbon zero home??
Is that one without electricity or gas?? or people living in it?
Is that one without electricity or gas?? or people living in it?
i was thinking the same
it rules out anyone with gas central heating, to an electric kettle
do they know something we dont
like when they changed the law on fuel, where any fuel used to power a car has to have duty paid onit
06 December 2006, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by davegtt
Moving out of the country because fuel has gone up 1.5p a litre 
06 December 2006, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Petem95
Obviously the quote "the straw that broke the camels back" would be meaningless to you eh
What's the RSPCA's number. That's awfull
06 December 2006, 04:11 PM
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Tesco's super is already up 2p/ltr (went up yesterday) at my local station. Now at 89.9p/ltr
Still a lot less than 3 months ago when it was 101p/ltr
Still a lot less than 3 months ago when it was 101p/ltr
06 December 2006, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Neanderthal
Still a lot less than 3 months ago when it was 101p/ltr
They will pile on the tax so it slowly creeps back up there and then when we next have oil price instabilities it'll be £1.30 or something - but then that won't be their fault, it will be the markets fault.
Just spoke to my next door neighbour - he's off - decided he's had enough and is moving to Cryprus.
Our tax burden is going to just rise and rise - this government has over spent in truely epic proportions... wouldn't be so bad if we actually were seeing some real improvements - but no.
06 December 2006, 04:34 PM
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Strikes me that some of the complacent one here are in for a massive wake up call when out of the blue they are made redundant and are unable to meet the enormous monthly repayments on their mortgages, car loans, holiday loans, utility bills and council tax.
06 December 2006, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by unclebuck
Strikes me that some of the complacent one here are in for a massive wake up call when out of the blue they are made redundant and are unable to meet the enormous monthly repayments on their mortgages, car loans, holiday loans, utility bills and council tax.
With all the Utility bills rising plus all the new and higher Taxes being introduce I just have less money in my pocket every month. Then we hear Brown say that we should save and add more money into our pension schemes. With less money in my pocket through taxation, how am I supposed to do that?
They want us to spend on the high street while we're saving too.
06 December 2006, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by stilover
They want us to spend on the high street while we're saving too.
06 December 2006, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by unclebuck
No problem. Just get another loan. This time make it a *really* big one...
I have cut my spending down this year. Tried to find everything cheaper if not buy it at all. **** the high street!
06 December 2006, 04:54 PM
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Don't know anyone who has had wage increases to keep up with all these rising costs. i.e about 10% every year.Anyone?
Rang for a redemtion figure on my car loan today. Interestingly 2nd option on the automated choices was 'if you are having problems or are in arrears press 2'.Same for the Mortgage company.
The depth of the problem is huge.And the next person I see use a credit card to pay for purchases of less than a fiver I will kick up the bum
Rang for a redemtion figure on my car loan today. Interestingly 2nd option on the automated choices was 'if you are having problems or are in arrears press 2'.Same for the Mortgage company.
The depth of the problem is huge.And the next person I see use a credit card to pay for purchases of less than a fiver I will kick up the bum
06 December 2006, 04:54 PM
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yeah! Really ****ing big! So you can't pay it back and go bankrupt... then we will pay it for you!
I have cut my spending down this year. Tried to find everything cheaper if not buy it at all. **** the high street!
I have cut my spending down this year. Tried to find everything cheaper if not buy it at all. **** the high street!
Thats my retirement plan
take out every loan,credit card,store card and what the **** ever they throw at me stash the cash then go crying to the courts with my br forms.I'm retiring at 29 btw
06 December 2006, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by lozgti
the next person I see use a credit card to pay for purchases of less than a fiver I will kick up the bum
Fvcking idiot. God knows how much they charge for that.
06 December 2006, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by 51st state
Mr Brown said the government's aim was to "unleash" the economy.
with his taxes and take it from working/business owning english and give it to ******* and anyone from anywhere
and wheres this booming economy
sorry, forgot , he was talking to the immigrants
labour were voted in by scots
england was a tory majority
with his taxes and take it from working/business owning english and give it to ******* and anyone from anywhere
and wheres this booming economy
sorry, forgot , he was talking to the immigrants
labour were voted in by scots
england was a tory majority
06 December 2006, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by sociophobe
You surely jest little englander? With London having a population exceeding that of jockland you must be really fecking stupid or you're avin a laff.
You live and learn dont you?