Petrol prices

[embee]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

.... IIRC its going up another 3p per litre shortly.

http://www.petrolprices.com/fuel-tax.html

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Don't forget that 3p duty rise has VAT applied, so it's really just over 3.5p.

[Viney]

The dearest station i found recently is 1.45 a litre! This is Eco in earls court!

I have apicture of a petrol garage back in the early 80's at 1.63 a GALLON!

[yorkie_chris]

The oil companies aren't to blame, it's the ridiculous tax which is. And still going up.

The pound is devalued, so you can't buy things in dollars as cheaply, such as oil. The thinking is this makes it more viable for people to purchase our exports and help the economy in general... at the cost of crippling ordinary people.

I still use my car to drive the half mile to the Co-op. What a life of excess I must inadvertently lead

The oil companies have to take some of the blame, they control the market by slowing or speeding up barrel production creating supply and demand.
But most of the blame lies with labour, or more specifically one eye brown, he taxed the crap out of us while chancellor.

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

I still use my car to drive the half mile to the Co-op. What a life of excess I must inadvertently lead

You killed three polar bears, started a war and destroyed the planet just by typing that, you magnyficint basterd.

Originally Posted by Sean_C

Don't quote me on this, but I think that although the price of crude oil is relatively low, not as much of it is being refined. Less of it means higher demand/price.

Bottled out at 50 quid, filling up my diesel the other day. On apprentice wages, I have to be pretty careful about where and how often I drive outside of commuting. Sadly, I can only see this carrying on throughout life, as fuel will only ever go up.

And this is the point of the (conservative-introduced) fuel tax escalator. I curse it, but I bought an SV rather than a lunatic length-extension sportsbike partly for this reason. It's still significantly faster than my brain and does over 50mpg, unless I treat it like Max Mosley.

We have to face the fact that the planet will be f*cked if we continue to P*ss in our own pool. I'd like the option of economical bikes, with improved performance on the Royal Enfield. It can be done, and surely will be done at some point.

Its a joke

My car is getting so expensive to fill up but I have no choice but to drive to work. Public transport takes me 2 hours so that option is out the window.

The odd things I found is that the government always pushes the fuel price as a way to encourage you to use public transport and such. But if we did that there would be huge hole in the budget and the public transport network would probably collapse under the strain.
The only way I can see of hurting the government in this situation is not a 'go slow' as you still need fuel and it only hurts people and businesses trying to use those roads the 'go slow' is on.
More a complete group/county/country wide refusal to buy fuel. Say no-one travel to work on a Wednesday, thus saving that fuel cost on that day, but also affecting the countries economy due to a drop in production and putting pressure on the government from businesses.
You just look back at the money the country lost when loads of people couldn't get to work due to the roads being snowed up. That will create focus, but how do you get a whole country to effectively go on strike.

A car share between two other of my colleagues saved me a bomb, and it was nice to take a nap on the 45 min drive every other day Before I worked out this arrangement I *needed* a car at work. Needless to say you just find ways of coping easily.