Re: Cost of fuel
 

like razor said "

Oil is over $110 a barrel,"

yet the americans still pay loads less then we do?

tax is killing this country.

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Just to add, this low emission zone is happening in London now, which is total **** take...

It turns out that the van I would use would not be compliaent in October 2010, but until then its okay....Well at least its not a problem now. But WTF this is just another tax for the hell of it. This well be the end of small businesses in London that have to use vans.

You I probally should get out of city while I can, its total joke. It would cost ?100 /day to use a van here, do they went tax the air that I breath next?

All this before I have put fuel in it. It will get to the point where we work to pay tax, and we will have no free cash. What a great future we have here.

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I filled my car up with Diesel last week - cost ?76 - That's the first time it's really hit home :-( - over ?5 a gallon (in old money)

I remember driving in Scotland somewhere near Glencoe in 1986 and having to pay ?2.00 a gallon. Then I drove round the corner and at the next petrol station it was only ?1.99. Made me mad at the time. I guess that would have made it about 44p a litre:smt005

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I'd quite like to know where all this extra money is going. Any ideas?!
'fraid I've got no funny petrol stories as I've only been buying the stuff for a year!

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When I started driving- about 9 or 10 years ago, UL was 76p/litre.

I think that the current prices are shocking and as kwak rightly pointed out, taxes are the ruin of us.

Especially when I read about the claimable allowances that mp's get for their second homes....

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Well it certainly is bad at the moment and eventually something has to give. Although we can no longer have blockades as that would be an act of terrorism. All the while the government can hike prices up and increase tax on everything while wages stay roughly the same. And they tell us we live in a Democracy!

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I can imagine as you're a copper it makes you more angry than most.

Fuel duty rises, a cost in and of its self, which you have to pay to get to work.

It drives up inflation so what you do earn is worth less... so then you're denied your pay rise (or more acurately, given a pay cut) to 'help resist inflationary pressures' that the government triggered in the first place!

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Not only do they claim for their homes, they also claim for travel - including fuel. So the people who force these taxes on us the only ones who avoid them. Or rather, they aren't avoiding them, they claim from the public purse, so in effect we're actually paying for their fuel bill :smt013

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I wouldn't mind so much if we had a world-class road network (and I don't mean full of cameras). It just seems bonkers that we live in a country split by those that give and those that take.

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two words for diesel drivers ( cooking oil )