Petrol Prices - A problem?
Originally Posted by ScoobywagonGl
This is all i see in every forum .... if you have a problem paying the high prices of fuel buy a cheaper car .. use public transport or walk!!!
simple as! a few people off a bbs are not going to change anything!!!!
its just something we have to live with
simple as! a few people off a bbs are not going to change anything!!!!
its just something we have to live with
You tried to get to anywhere on time using public transport...its a joke. Now if the public transport system was better then we would have less to moan about.
It isn't something we have to live with, grow some ***** will ya.
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or exercise our political judgement using the ballot box!
A government should never be something we "have to live with", they work for us not
the other way around.
Remember those in government set their own pay increase and decide the rest of us (public sector anyway) should have a restricted pay rise each year, yet taxes can rise at a higher percentage than such a pay rise! QED out of pocket for the consumer.
A government should never be something we "have to live with", they work for us not
the other way around.
Remember those in government set their own pay increase and decide the rest of us (public sector anyway) should have a restricted pay rise each year, yet taxes can rise at a higher percentage than such a pay rise! QED out of pocket for the consumer.
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Originally Posted by Trem
Are you taking the ****?
You tried to get to anywhere on time using public transport...its a joke. Now if the public transport system was better then we would have less to moan about.
It isn't something we have to live with, grow some ***** will ya.
You tried to get to anywhere on time using public transport...its a joke. Now if the public transport system was better then we would have less to moan about.
It isn't something we have to live with, grow some ***** will ya.
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A lot of people living in towns and cities don't realise the problems many people have with public transport.
I live in a small town and work in a power station at least a mile from any bus route and over 3 miles from the nearest station. Taxis need to be booked at least 48 hours in advance, and cost a small fortune. Add to that working shifts, and you can see the problem. My route to work is 11 miles, so cycling is out of the question, would you cycle 11 miles to work, do a 12 hr nightshift, then cycle 11 miles home?
Steve
I live in a small town and work in a power station at least a mile from any bus route and over 3 miles from the nearest station. Taxis need to be booked at least 48 hours in advance, and cost a small fortune. Add to that working shifts, and you can see the problem. My route to work is 11 miles, so cycling is out of the question, would you cycle 11 miles to work, do a 12 hr nightshift, then cycle 11 miles home?
Steve
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Originally Posted by homer lawtey
If the price of fuel was fixed at a certain figure, say 80p per litre, and the tax simply made the difference between what the petrol actually costs, and the 80p, then I'm sure the government would make themselves a little better known to OPEC when they start cutting production and forcing up the prices for their greedy pockets.
Fuel duty was 48.82p/litre in March 2000 - over 4 years ago. If prices followed inflation, the fuel duty should be far more by now.
So, the goverment has increased the fuel duty by 1.37p/litre since March 2000., yet you'd think they had increased it by 20p/litre the way you guys are moaning....1.37p/litre - no much is it! Your house value has probably doubled since then, but don't see you all moaning about that
Nor the low interest rates which have kept your mortgage payments at their lowest in decades. I am apolitcal in all of this, therefore please don't think I am supporting one party's viewpoint or another - the point is, the increase in fuel duty is not that significant in all of this, ie pretty small.See here :
http://www.hmce.gov.uk/business/othe.../roadfuels.htm
The goverment cannot have variable fuel duty - it wouldn't work very well in terms of budgeting. Why should it interfere in normal supply & demand pricing of any product? It is not doing so, and should continue not to do so.
Last edited by imlach; Jun 3, 2004 at 01:00 AM.
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