The AA is reporting that fuel prices could be seen at £1.20 a litre as early as this year... Grrrrrrrr:zx11:
Petrol Price Woe For Drivers As Costs Soar
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The AA is reporting that fuel prices could be seen at £1.20 a litre as early as this year... Grrrrrrrr:zx11:
Petrol Price Woe For Drivers As Costs Soar
try going to my local garage. fuel prices are at £1.20 a litre already. :aargh4:
its f**** ridiculous they will probably rise again in april after the budget, where everyone will think its an outrage and start protests but i think they should be doing that now!!!!!
I think with the election just around the corner the goverment would have to do something if everyone started kicking off about the priceQuote:
Originally Posted by Y90USF
I think there should ber another protest like most drivers did them years ago when the prices were hitting £0.90p !!
At the weekend I went past a few garages @ £1.19p, my local is £1.15p (the average as per http://www.petrolprices.com/ )
Then LPG is getting expensive now i noticed the other day..
They will find a way of slowing putting everything up... Didn't diesel use to be cheaper than petrol back in the day?Quote:
Originally Posted by RickT
With the demand they slowly start shooting everything up.
You don't have to wait for the budget - there is already a 3p litre raise due to come in on the 1st of April from last years budget.
A treasury quote " Fuel duty increases are an important part of the deficit reduction plan as well as supporting the goverment's environmental agenda"
So that's the bankers bonus and MP's expenses sorted:(
Whilst conveniently failing to mention that when they cut VAT at the end of 2008 they put a fuel duty rise to cover it, but when VAT rose again at the end of 2009 they didn't rescind the rise...:zx11:Quote:
Originally Posted by mwvw
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Originally Posted by mwvw
It's a bloody joke... I mean did the 15% lower VAT rate even help anyone? I very much doubt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hex69
I am fed up with politics... I am sure the Tories will not improve anything if they come along either... It just seems that once again its the motorists that gets stung.
we went wild when they used to put 3p on a GALLON:zx11:Quote:
Originally Posted by mwvw
now of course,it's 3p on a LITRE;)
+ the vat on the 3p;)
mind as long as we all just sit here moaning among ourselves,
it will continue, regardless of who's in power.
they will blame the previous government for the price rising so fast,and so often, but they will not bring it down. it will only drop when the price of oil drops,( lets hope),
regards,
stewy.
Topped the Golf up the other day with Premium Diesel at £1.23 per litre... :zx11:
You should have said to the cashier "copaani mirshmure'cye?"Quote:
Originally Posted by elvismiggell
I read somewhere that we are being shafted by both the government AND the oil companies.
Some excuse about refining capacity so the price increases are more than would normally be justified by the wholesale price.
Weak pound doesn't help either.
all it would take is for everyone to head for the m25 one sunday night and start driving around it, then, when its totally full of cars everyone stops and doesnt move until the price of fuel comes down to an acceptable level. i suggest bringing a flask of tea and some biccies and be prepared to wait there for a few days. that way the robbing folk in govt might get the message . how about sunday april 4th. :D
I'm in on the m25 blockade.
It cost £63 to fill up the Golf the other day. That's over 10% of what we paid for the car in the first place! :aargh4:
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Originally Posted by zollaf
I'd be in for it lolQuote:
Originally Posted by macmillions
Although I feel the M25 is the worst road!
And that would make the M25 any different :DQuote:
Originally Posted by zollaf
I had the misfortune to go to Kent on Friday, they closed the M6 in parts (Which held us up and meant a detour) so I went down the M40. Then three hours on the M25 and to add insult to injury (and back on topic) I paid £1.21 litre of Diesel somewhere in Maidstone and then £1.23@ the motorway services.
Anyone want to but a petrol Passat http://www.windowsguide.org/forum/im...ilies/cry3.gif
I do hope you had to look that up!Quote:
Originally Posted by sooty
I'm up for an M25 blockade!!!
The way I feel about the current fuel prices can only be described using language that is probably too colourful for this forum.
I've often wondered what action that we (the motorists) could take that would actually work, and I have to say Zollaf's idea is a really good one.
The M25 quite far from me but I'd be up for it.
The cost of living is going up; real inflation is gathering steam.
The UK has been poorly managed for the past decade, and now as a country we are hanging out in the wind waiting to be savaged. We have very little in the way of raw natural resources, so most of our energy is purchased from abroad in the global reserve currency - the US Dollar.
Sterling is at risk of losing value due to the our deficit issue. If a political party does not grow some balls and sort the mess out, there will be a run on Sterling. This will mean the buying power of Sterling will be alot less against global markets - this will convert into higher fuel costs for us.
Putting up interest rates may help...but back to Government growing balls again.
The price of fuel is largely affected by global economics. UK has little influence over it. We will in the UK return to a past era where only the rich can afford to run a car........Government cannot afford to cut fuel duty drastically. Whilst they can of course choose to cut the duty on fuel, the tax revenue lost will have to come from somewhere else, like Income Tax for example. Fuel duty is voluntary to an extent, Income Tax is not.
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Originally Posted by elvismiggell
Indeed I did have to!
The powers of google hey!
I've never ever seen star wars!
Well I would have been pretty surprised if you knew it off by heart!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by sooty
However, I find your lack of faith disturbing!
I've never really been into Star Wars or Star Treck... Wierd considering we are all a bunch of geeks on here! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by elvismiggell
This is a joke, but then I suppose there must be some way to slow the use of oil? Just not at my expense :P
Wakey wakey the M25 is a car park, all the time!!
Clinterous has said it. The government needs to obtain the tax from somehwere and the motorist, the smoker and drinker are jolly good targets. I do not like it so have a toy for weekends that does gallons to the mile and am going to buy a diesel for the daily crapper.
Love your cars whilst you can, there is nowt you can do about it ;)
PS I will always have a toy, even when I cannot afford to put it on the road!
Where we're different than Europe is that, we just complain, (I include myself in this)
Very occasionally, someone kicks off and starts a fuel protest but it just fizzles out in a damp squib after a couple of weeks.
In south of france or spain, you can mount a peaceful protest and enjoy the sunshine whilst proving your point, however here it requires a thick coat or waterproofs as 80% of the time is wet, cold or both.
WE are amongst the highest petrol prices in Europe and as you quite rightly say, the price of fuel has very little to do with the actual cost of producing it but more to do with demand and the avaricious application of disproportionate amounts of fuel duty.
It's bad enough having to bear the rises and all of the inflationary effects such a rise produces, but to be told its for the good of the environment is bovine effluent 100%.
I laughed after reading that the new leaf electric car will have a range of just 100 miles and that government will encourage the installation of 1300 new charging points to enable you to more easily recharge them.
Very good except even the best battery technology takes 45 minutes to an hour to charge the batteries and how long will it be before our beloved politicians of either party introduce a power levy to electrically charged vehicles again for the good of the environment in order to cash in just as they did with diesel fuel despite the fact that most electricity is still produced from either coal, gas or nuclear means.
I would have a little more respect for our politicians had they'd been honest and said we do it for greed and for as much tax as we can possibly gather to fund the rich lifestyles of our lazy corpulent parliament.
However truth and politicians are mutually exclusive and cannot co-exist in the same reality.
Gazza57:zx11:
Agree with that GazQuote:
Originally Posted by gazza57
Indeed Gazza.
Tapping into various sources, there is certainly an underlying anger bubbling away about the political system, with many calling for a radical redesign. In some respects a hung parliament may not be a bad thing.
a hung parliament is ok, but why cant they just be shot.:D
Last time the prices went up = :biglaugh: = Loads of parking spaces in the Lake district:biglaugh: Less Sunday drivers blocking the lanes at 20mph
Paid £1.149 this morning for Unleaded.
Paid the same today for diesel....Quote:
Originally Posted by MalcQV
all the fuel duty rises is to pay for that f*** off war in afganistan that keeps draining the public purse :zx11: and all the lazy gits who have never worked aday in there life
paul:beerchug:
£1.18 for bog sstandard diesel I think the Ultimate is 8p/ltr more but not sure:aargh4:
Looking at the above posts, most of which stem back just to late March 2010 show a pump price of £1.14/litre, now it is May and we're in £1.22 and upwards, you just cannot let the price of fuel rise and rise and rise.
Where the hell is this going to end and what's the justification for for it?
The wholesale price of a barrel of Brent crude is less than $80!
In this so called era of post Labour austerity, it is becoming impossible to afford to travel, this reduces peoples capacity to get jobs especially if a larger and larger proportion is ending up back in the pockets of the exchequer.
This is just fuelling inflation (no pun intended)
Gazza57:zx11:
It was £1.36 the other day at the services on the M1 for diesel!
I put £7 in and then came off at Sheffield Meadow hall as i know theres a sainsburys there!
It makes a difference when putting 70 litres of the stuff in!!!
its £1.23.9 a litre for diesel at most places here, i may be wrong but im sure they said on the radio today that the new government are planning and emergency budget in 5 weeks, i hope to god i miss heard cos im sure they will put it up again:(