Everybody seems to be moaning about the prices of petrol these days and why not? Especially as Shell and BP have just announced profits of over 7 billion pounds between them in the first three months of the year.
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| 01-5-2008 | There will come a day when petrol will have given way to some other form of fuel, (e.g hydrogen) that won't pollute as much and CO2 will be reduced. The government of the day will have to tax this new fuel instead otherwise it will lose income.
The problem is how the government spends the fuel...more | Tom |
| 01-5-2008 | In 1974 the price of petrol shot up from 8p a litre to 17p a litre. Adjusting for inflation this was pretty expensive for the time. This prompted a huge public debate on the future of motoring and all the forecasters told us that the future would be smaller engined, sleek, lightweight, town cars tha...more | Robo |
| 01-5-2008 | Car Crusher, the hundreds of other expenses does not come to the £1,500 in lost salary.
If you think cars should be crushed then thats fine but next time you get a cab, get a lift from a friend or take a bus with only 2 other people on it, think about your crushing argument again. As with m...more | Mc£5perGallon! |
| 01-5-2008 | With the rising car tax and then fuel going up even more I've bit the bullet and sold my car. I have a car to use still but share it and the costs involved. The cost of living is getting beyond a joke for a rising number of people and Labour have betrayed their core support base with their anti...more | Unhappy Chappy |
| 30-4-2008 | Car crusher - you obviously either don't have a car, a job, or are too old and entitled to a free bus pass - paid for by the rest of us | John |
| 30-4-2008 | Mc£5perGallon VAT is not a Luxury tax, but a simple sales tax on everything.
You pay fuel duty because we don't want you using too much. It pollutes.
Your car should be crushed.
Your analysis is all wrong. You have not taken into account a hundred other expenses with running your c...more | Car Crusher |
| 30-4-2008 | V.A.T. - This was supposed to be a luxury tax. However, since when was it called a luxury to pay for Fuel Duty has the vat is applied to that as well, I.e you pay 9p of that vat on just the fuel duty alone.
As for going green(er, it still needs fuel to run a train) 10 mile drive to work and back,...more | Mc£5perGallon! |
| 30-4-2008 | This half a could've been a govt. holds not one ounce of integrity to the people it misgoverns.
When are they going to step in, stop, that's enough on the fuel? I suppose they'll step in once the companies have gone under.
This goes not just for fuel but for everything. When I go...more | Sandy |
| 30-4-2008 | The fact that fuel duty is taken from an already heavily taxed wage. It seems the harder you work the more you get taken to the cleaners by the government. If you ever sit down and work out exactly how much of your annual salary goes to the government you'll be amazed and disgusted. The company ...more | Markie |
| 30-4-2008 | The problem here is not so much the high fuel duty, it's the fact that people just wont leave the car behind. People don't want to walk anywhere anymore and they even take the car to pop round to the local shop. The only way to try and change peoples attitude is to make petrol so expensive...more | Mark T |
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