Diesel prices WTF!!

[shadygiz]

I paid £1.43 for Unleaded the other week on the Motorway ( amateur mistake) but even the places near me which used to be reasonable (£1.31ish) are now charging around £1.39... Fucking rip off especially with a car thats drinking petrol atm all my moneys going on fuel its a piss take

thats why i bit the bullet and sold my missus's bmw a few weeks ago.....we'd had it 8 years. She now drives a 1.4 ford fusion.

 

[Skashion]

Its nearer 70% i believe but im just making the point that petrol rises with the price of oil and the current political (Middle East, Africa, US, Here and financial climate (World) has sky rocketed the price of oil over the last few years

It changes because the tax is mostly in-line with inflation whereas fuel prices most definitely aren't doing: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.abd.org.uk/taxtable.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.abd.org.uk/taxtable.htm</a> If there's a 50p increase the increase in tax is only 7p. The reason for the initial high price is tax then everything else is flutuation. The biggest effect currently is oil speculators: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-07/have-oil-speculators-already-priced-in-war-with-iran" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... -with-iran</a>

Anyone with half a brain knows politics affects the price of oil and thus petrol. Whether it's OPEC limiting supply or increasing it or whether it's conflict or whether it's embargoes. Entire conflicts have revolved around this very issue, it's explicitly political unless you've been sitting with your fingers in your ears on Mars.

 

[shadygiz]

i heard yesterday it was 83p in every litre is tax ;(

 

[Blue Maverick]

i heard yesterday it was 83p in every litre is tax ;(

Yep and you can guess where all that money goes because it certainly isn't on maintaining the roads.

 

[SWP's back]

emphasis on the word cheaper, they're not cheap.

it's just the government ripping us off and being extortionate, because they can and because too many people don't give a fuck anymore.

The majority, around 60%, of what we spend on petrol is tax.

That's as true but it would be unwise to say that the correlation does not equate to oil price being causative.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

i heard yesterday it was 83p in every litre is tax ;(

Yep and you can guess where all that money goes because it certainly isn't on maintaining the roads.

No i need some help here. Where does it go?

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

i heard yesterday it was 83p in every litre is tax ;(

Yep and you can guess where all that money goes because it certainly isn't on maintaining the roads.

No i need some help here. Where does it go?

HDTVs for bloody immigrants.

 

[SWP's back]

I paid £1.43 for Unleaded the other week on the Motorway ( amateur mistake) but even the places near me which used to be reasonable (£1.31ish) are now charging around £1.39... Fucking rip off especially with a car thats drinking petrol atm all my moneys going on fuel its a piss take

thats why i bit the bullet and sold my missus's bmw a few weeks ago.....we'd had it 8 years. She now drives a 1.4 ford fusion.

I moved to a 520d from 330ci for the same reason. Now when I'm off to see a client I tootle along at 56mph on the motorway behind a lorry and get 60mpg. Not bad considering it's a tank.

 

[Happy Feet]

We're paying for a welfare system that rewards people for not working

totally agree....the welfare system is out of control and genuine people who try and access it when they need help dont get it...but generations of families have made a career out of milking the welfare system....we have redefined what poverty means in the UK and need to address this balance but not at the expense of genuine vulnerable people..

You will upset the museli knitters on here with statements like that.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

I paid £1.43 for Unleaded the other week on the Motorway ( amateur mistake) but even the places near me which used to be reasonable (£1.31ish) are now charging around £1.39... Fucking rip off especially with a car thats drinking petrol atm all my moneys going on fuel its a piss take

thats why i bit the bullet and sold my missus's bmw a few weeks ago.....we'd had it 8 years. She now drives a 1.4 ford fusion.

I moved to a 520d from 330ci for the same reason. Now when I'm off to see a client I tootle along at 56mph on the motorway behind a lorry and get 60mpg. Not bad considering it's a tank.

The new beamers take the piss out of normality with there fuel consumption. Missus dad is getting 65mpg out of his new 520d due to some fuel efficient tyres being fitted