Fuel prices due to rise... AGAIN!

[elvismiggell]

Topped the Golf up the other day with Premium Diesel at £1.23 per litre...

[sooty]

Topped the Golf up the other day with Premium Diesel at £1.23 per litre...

You should have said to the cashier "copaani mirshmure'cye?"

[peteo]

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.

[zollaf]

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.

[macmillions]

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!

[sooty]

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.

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!

I'd be in for it lol

Although I feel the M25 is the worst road!

[MalcQV]

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.

And that would make the M25 any different

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

[elvismiggell]

You should have said to the cashier "copaani mirshmure'cye?"

I do hope you had to look that up!

I'm up for an M25 blockade!!!

[paul b]

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.

[Clinterous]

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.