Petrol Prices

Originally Posted by Grinch

it maybe going up.. but its still 60% tax.. So remeber you pay taxes on you wages... then tax on the car/bike to buy it.. then road tax every year for the rest of its life... Then tax on the fuel.... Next will be road tolls that will tax you to go to work.. might as well just sell the car/bike and stay at home.

So come on then how come you dont pay tax on your savings like the rest of us? You forgot parts etc.

If the current rash of price rises really are due to the crisis in the US then it will be interesting to see just how quickly they start to drop once conditions return to normal...

On another note, I heard a radio report yesterday saying how it was boom time for the makers of garage forecourt signs as everyone is busily adapting them to add another zero

Petrol has just hit $ 1.40 AUD or about 0.58 of your money per liter this week. This is really high for us, considering it was around $ 0.90 AUD / litre at the start of the year.

Originally Posted by Diveboy

So come on then how come you dont pay tax on your savings like the rest of us? You forgot parts etc.

You are correct... I do pay tax on my savings... if I had any...

Originally Posted by afterburner

Petrol has just hit $ 1.40 AUD or about 0.58 of your money per liter this week. This is really high for us, considering it was around $ 0.90 AUD / litre at the start of the year.

Are we supprised

NO!

Bloody 'rip-off' Britain again

The cheapest I ever remember petrol (whilst in my driving years,) is 78p/litre

I'm sure they're not too bothered about fuel duty being high... easy "solution" to congestion - price people off of the roads. And if it doesn't do that, then at least it'll make them stacks of cash. A win-win situation. For them.

Have a look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4221296.stm

"More than half the fuel used in the UK bears little or no fuel duty at all" says a treasury spokesperson. WTF? Is that including air transport too? I'm sure the Farmers and their tractors can't equal the same fuel usage as every car, bike, van, etc. on the road... not unless a lot of their red diesel is finding its way into private vehicles (know of several people who do this - never trust chavs who own diesels...). Maybe it's time they started investigating why so much fuel is being used by the groups who don't have to pay, then perhaps we'd be paying less.

Incidentally, the quantity of fuel used for planes is massive, as are the pollution effects, and the tax is tiny (if it exists at all). Yet they're classed as "good for the economy" so they avoid taxes. The budget flight rush in recent years has put a huge drain on oil/fuel supplies as well as adding extra burden to fuel prices when we buy for our cars and bikes. No mention of cutting back on flights with all this oil crisis though...

Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales

never trust chavs who own diesels...

I saw one of our Lizzie Duke jewellery wearing, Burbury capped louts in our local scrap yard the other day (I was helping a mate remove an Astra gearbox ) He had a 12 volt battery, an old screen wash pump & a large drum... He was going from car to car syphoning all the pertol out of the scrap motors - I kid you not

[fizzwheel]

mwah.. hope the petrol was stale and gone off, that'll learn him the varmit

well if they do blockade the oil refineries again I ain't getting to work that week.. unless someone knows where I can get a extra large fuel tank for a GT750...

[BillyC]

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