mrjud

Just been to fill up my scooby at the shell garage in lincoln and started to fill up when i noticed it was over £1 a litre when i went to pay i said to the woman behind the counter when do i get my tickets to america to help mopping up the water. and continued by saying there must be a reason its this much must be raising money to send help.
noticed i was digging a hole and just walked out the 80's throw back didn't see the funny side.
think i might have to travel 30 miles now to the next shell garage what do you think.
cheers

jowl

Just been to the local (or what will be) Shell Garage - 101.9p a litre of Optimax! Thank God I was only using the cash machine.

Shell garage near my current house is 20 miles away...but cheaper I hope.

Mica Blue

May have to start using Sainsbury's SUL, 101.9p for optimax is crazy.

mrjud

still waiting for this tesco fuel to come up here. the only thing we get to share with the restof the country is a shed load of fooking imigrents (irritants)

Swen6

Power Junkie

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I had to get some at 99.9 Stupid taxes....

BROOKS1E

Had to top up on way back from the coast yesterday at buntingford wasnt a shell garage in sight so had to put in some ultima or what ever its called and that was £1.01p a litre still we will still all pay our money and moan but whats the point of complaining

automodellistagt

great so its going to cost you a nearly a tenner to get there and back. Hope the saving is worth it

pappasmurf

Diesel and Unleaded will all hit the £1 a litre mark within 14 days saw a letter from head office of a major petroleum company yesterday. Which means we can all expect to pay about 105p for optimax.

DIPSY

Just been and filled up in shell garage in Dundee in Scotland 97.9 but way to change it had 99.9 for optimax on pump more money for the Goverment to blow on rubbish and people keep blaming the oil companys .Oil companys get about 15 to 20 pence the rest goes to the Goverment it us daft people put up with it .

Aztec Performance Ltd

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Fake plates and drive-offs

That would get noticed

jowl

It's where I currently live, with my parents.

I'll just have to fill up when I visit them!

Damn, I'm going to have to visit a lot more than initially planned lol

Edmondo

local Esso Garage 100.9p.......Tesco 99Ron 94.9p.....luckily the Tesco garage is only 10 mins from where I work

CyprusScooby

There needs to be more petrol strikes again!!!!

The Govt. need to lower the duty on fuel!

Its about time the public took matters into their own hands!

Pauleds2

I agree, we get fleeced hands down by this useless money grabbing Government and we need to take action as a nation to stop us getting shafted any more.

We just all sit back and let it happen!

If i saw that waste of skin Blair in the street i'd **** him.

misty

How do you lot go on when you go to the pub? Beer costs around £3.85 a litre!!! Yet I bet you still pay it! And then P*ss it down the bog, at least you get some pleasure from the optimax.
dave

Moray

Problem is to many homos around that cant be bothered protesting.

Moray

Keep convincing yourself every £8 in £10 is tax on fuel and its ok to pay it.

catalunya199again

it was 97.9 in norwich but i tend to use sainsburys sul it does fine for my car this is getting way out of hand, how comes the french government can give money back to there people cause the petrol has gone up (if anyone sees a pig flying let us know) cause we aint got no chance

chrisp

lets knock £1 a gallon off petrol and diesel

how much do you reckon the shortfall in spending would be ?

couple of million ?

wrong !!

cars, planes,buses,trains,coaches,boats,motorcycles,scoo ters, military vehicles, trucks, industrial machinery, generators etc etc etc

all use fuel

so how many gallons at £1 less

average mileage car driver uses about 400 a year so that £400 per car.

10 million cars ?

£4,000,000,000

is that 4 billion in just lost car revenue ?

what about all the other machines that use fuel ?

double it, treble it multiply by 10 I honest dont know

What I do know is that we are talking billions of pounds which has to come from somewhere.

Now I dont like paying tax but I see it as a trade off. I am sure the government could simply add 5p to income tax and fuel would decrease next day but it would hit you in the pocket come pay day. At the moment you have to choice on the amount of fuel you buy if its a direct tax then you dont.

What I am for is spending the money more efficiently and would hope the government are looking to spend the money wisely.

chrisp

my mistake just looked on the net apparantly the uk has 23 million vehicles doing an average of 10K per vehicle

so that 30mpg per vehicle = £333 per vehicle in lost tax @ £1 a gallon

23,000,000 x 333 = £7,659,000,000

7.5 billion

misty

And do you really believe that income tax would be so low if you weren't taxed so much on petrol? Whichever way you cut it you have to pay taxes in one form or another. It's not the law to drive you know!!!!
dave

mrjud

what about the people that don't drink then:

the things that **** me off is:
i pay tax to buy a van for work
i pay tax to insure it
i pay road tax
i pay tax on petrol
THIS IS BEFORE I GET TO WORK
then i pay tax for my dinner
i pay tax for fuel
tax for clothing
tax for tools
then i get payed which i also get taxed on
So i get taxed on the money i earn then for everything i spend it on i get taxed again just for pleasure
why not just bend me over and shaft me in person mr Blaire

mrjud

ok tony if we didn't drive how would we get to work to earn the money we get taxed on

misty

Walk
Run
Cycle
Bus
train
Fly
Oh! so now the car is the only method of transport is it? I bet if there was enough oil to allow the car to run forever people would lose the use of their legs!!

Don't make me laugh,the car is not the all encompassing panacea of modern means of transport. When oil finally runs out how will you get to work then? If your car breaks down how do you get to work? How do people who don't drive get to work? How do the under 17s get to work/college. My veiw is if you don't like paying for petrol then don't drive!!! it isn't rocket science is it. I don't go out much because I don't like paying £2.50 for a pint of fermented water, it's my choice. It's also your choice whether you pay for petrol, so don't whine about it.
dave

mrjud

come on then what do you do for a living or don't you

try being a self employed roofer with no transsport i can see you walking to work with a stihl saw nail guns 5000 nails hammers lead tools the lads that work for me . me pack up and what ever else i need. i don't go out at all i use all my money to pay for the house and kids unlike these layabouts that do **** all every day of the week that my hard earned taxes support.
so i will have my say and moan about it

kingofturds

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Run 14miles to work every day not very practical
Cycle ^ as above
Bus no buses run at 5 in the morning
train would have to catch a train ,then walk 6 miles to work
Fly non starter

so looks like im stuck with the car

deano555

Tanked up this morning in Amblesideat bp and paid 103.9p per litre, the guy behind the counter wasn't impressed when I asked if he would like a pint of blood aswell. Another bp on the M6 on the way back down was 106.9p .
ROBBING B@STARDS. All because they can get more money by shipping the petrol to the States. I'm sure George W.would do the same for us. !!!!

misty

I work 6 miles from home. For four months of the year I cycle, the rest I use my car. I'm not saying you shouldn't have a car, but don't go on about how much fuel costs. If you don't want it then don't buy it! Roofer man get a hand cart!!! Then you could charge less! How do think roofers got around 100 years ago?
dave

deano555

I cycle or walk to work every day, my wife uses the car for school run etc. This argument is about paying a fair price for fuel and not suffering the consequences of shipping fuel to the states where they pay a fraction of the cost for fuel that we do and use a damned sight more.