Have I Just Bought The Most Expensive Scooby Juice In The UK??
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106p per ltr at our local Tesco, cheaper with the 5p per ltr off vouchers.
Costs a fortune to drive to work at 18 miles per gallon, might cost caparison on buying a diesel
Costs a fortune to drive to work at 18 miles per gallon, might cost caparison on buying a diesel
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I also work for an oil company, and fully understand why the price is high - I've posted about it several times previously in response to threads like this.
The biggest problem in the UK is down to the government IMO - duty on fuel is simply too high, especially given the lack of such on air traffic.
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I was just waiting for the 'five years ago the exchange rate was' comments like come up in the other threads....
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The Relationship Between Petrol and Oil Prices
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well when there is a massive rise in petrol dont u think the government should lower the tax to keep the petrol the smae price. They could regulate the price that way, instead of the yo yo pricing that we have just now
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Or maybe a more plausible explanation is that working for an oil company, you're rather well off and fail to understand that rapidly increasing fuel costs are a real financial burden for some less fortunate than yourself.
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well done buddy you have hit the nail on the head. The old story look after the rich and tax the poor. The government has being doing that for years
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The oil and gas industry is very fickle, and I have been made redundant twice in the last ten years, once with complete loss of pension etc. They are VERY quick to drop you once things are on a downward slide (every four - five years roughly)....
I don't really see why I have to justify explaining this to you, and as someone has already pointed out 65p in the litre is tax. The only reason is has become an obsession for some of you is because it has gone over the £1/ltr mark.
As far as working in the oil and gas industry is concerned, day rates have yet to pass those which were set in the eighties, and then nosedived. They are getting closer though.
Someone else posted on one of the other threads the relationship of cost of fuel through the decades which showed that the price of fuel (relatively) has gone down, not up. Have to dig that out...
The point of my original comments was that it 'could' be a lot worse.... which is something that seems to have been lost here.
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if u watched the last budget the people that came out worse was your average single person living alone earning roughly 13k a year. single mothers and those who dont bother working all got extra benefits. If you have family they give you all sorts of working and child tax credits. The average person who works for a living with no children is hammered.
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if u watched the last budget the people that came out worse was your average single person living alone earning roughly 13k a year. single mothers and those who dont bother working all got extra benefits. If you have family they give you all sorts of working and child tax credits. The average person who works for a living with no children is hammered.
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As you can see from the comparisons, fuel tax has increased substantially since Labour come in to power.
Fuel Tax - PetrolPrices.com
Below is the price of oil over the years.
http://www.wtrg.com/oil_graphs/oilprice1970.gif
Fuel Tax - PetrolPrices.com
Below is the price of oil over the years.
http://www.wtrg.com/oil_graphs/oilprice1970.gif
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i was just talking generally the government seems to tax the poor and help the rich stay rich.
i dont blame oil companies for the cost of petrol i blame the amount of tax that the government puts on it. they are ripping us off, and when ever anyone complains they shift the blame to the oil companies and hope no one notices all the tax that they are taking. i say bring back the blockades to at least show our feeling about the prices instead of just putting up with it
i dont blame oil companies for the cost of petrol i blame the amount of tax that the government puts on it. they are ripping us off, and when ever anyone complains they shift the blame to the oil companies and hope no one notices all the tax that they are taking. i say bring back the blockades to at least show our feeling about the prices instead of just putting up with it
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if they just dropped the tax a bit to give us reasonible priced fuel. they could move the tax up and down to give us a constant rate for petrol say 80 pence a litre is more than fair
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i was just talking generally the government seems to tax the poor and help the rich stay rich.
i dont blame oil companies for the cost of petrol i blame the amount of tax that the government puts on it. they are ripping us off, and when ever anyone complains they shift the blame to the oil companies and hope no one notices all the tax that they are taking. i say bring back the blockades to at least show our feeling about the prices instead of just putting up with it
i dont blame oil companies for the cost of petrol i blame the amount of tax that the government puts on it. they are ripping us off, and when ever anyone complains they shift the blame to the oil companies and hope no one notices all the tax that they are taking. i say bring back the blockades to at least show our feeling about the prices instead of just putting up with it
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And as someone has said on the other thread, as long as home-owners house prices are going up by 20k a year, they are not likely to protest about a few pence in fuel duty or vote elsewhere
#47
yeah the rich can afford accountants who know the loopholes, so they end up paying less tax than a guy earning less than half there wage. its the same as the hike in road tax it is us who suffer. Lets face it if u can afford a 60k land rover u can afford 400 road tax. But we have to pay more tax because we have a 2.0l and not an electric milkfloat.
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As you can see from the comparisons, fuel tax has increased substantially since Labour come in to power.
Fuel Tax - PetrolPrices.com
Fuel Tax - PetrolPrices.com
At least Labour rule has kept it relatively stable....
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Just getting sick of the government. I was already just surviving due to the house prices plus the crazy amounts they want for council tax. then the fuel prices go up, and make me about 50 quid a month worse off. i am 7 quid more to fill up a tank. and i go through about one a half tanks a week to go to work and uni.
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if you notice tho they never mention the tax on fuel they just blame oil companies.
But look at america they were at war with the oil suppying countries yet they still pay for a gallon what we pay for a litre
But look at america they were at war with the oil suppying countries yet they still pay for a gallon what we pay for a litre
#51
The reason why the suggest has been made to avoid filling up for a few days is that the goverment receive the duty on a daily basis rather than a monthly basis and rely heavily on this daily cash flow. By not filling up for 2-3 days then the goverment will lose quite a substantial amunt of money.
Hit them in their pockets and not ours!
Hit them in their pockets and not ours!
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One thing I don't understand........the price of oil goes up (barrel price), so thecompanies getting the stuff out of the ground make more money...this is good for my industry....offshore services.....and allows the oil comapnies to spend more cash on getting even more of the stuff out of the ground.
However.........the exploration/production companies include Shell, BP, Texaco, Exxon Mobil, etc, etc......these companies alsoacualy produce and sell petrol......so.......
Why does Shell petrol go up in price when Shell are actually making more money to start with on the raw material required for petrol?? Crude oil costs more to buy, so petrol costs more to make, but they are making it with their own oil.
WTF??
I remember the country being up in arms at a £2.00 gallon.......tempus fugit eh??
However.........the exploration/production companies include Shell, BP, Texaco, Exxon Mobil, etc, etc......these companies alsoacualy produce and sell petrol......so.......
Why does Shell petrol go up in price when Shell are actually making more money to start with on the raw material required for petrol?? Crude oil costs more to buy, so petrol costs more to make, but they are making it with their own oil.
WTF??
I remember the country being up in arms at a £2.00 gallon.......tempus fugit eh??
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Nope, that's what the congestion charge does in London. No more nurses etc driving to work in old fiestas. Roads are clear for the rich folks to swan around in Ferraris, Porsches and Maybachs etc
The great unwashed now cycle, walk, tube or bus in to work..
The great unwashed now cycle, walk, tube or bus in to work..
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you are not worth bothering with
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your not known for your brains are you how will we get to work or do anthing without our cars. and do u honestly think one or two not buying petrol will make a difference. You are giving into them if u use public transport that what they want you to do. it is rip off britian right enough
Anyway, back to the point - its supply and demand. If people in mass majority stopped buying so much petrol, the price would have to come down.
Now if you keep buying it cos you're a lazy ****, then it obviously isn't too expensive is it, and you are proof of that cos you keep going back for more. You need to understand that you have a CHOICE of whether you buy petrol or not.
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