shell by me was doing 5p off today maybe thats why was cheaper by you

 

Hey guys, we had our first EA meet today and as you can guess fuel prices came up once or twice. As I said to one of the guys short term the increases are down too the middle east protests and who can be-grudge them trying to better their lot? I know I would rather pay a few quid extra per fill up at the moment and let them better their lot!

The Libiyans risk being shot in the street for a little bit of freedom so I cant really complain about paying 2 or 3 pence more a litre in the short term! They have to worry about there next meal not wether they can fill up a 200+bhp car! Please remember that! On the other hand I'm a HGV driver so I am worried about where it will all end!

Going to be a really different world that our children inheret thats for sure!

 

i can remember a few years back, evryone moaning, all over the news about petrol reaching £1 a litre.
and here we are a few years later at about £1.30 a litre.
we will moan, no one will listen, and we'll pay £2 a litre, cuz lets face it, wot choice do we have?
i aint walkin, i aint takin public transport, if god wanted me to take public transport, then he woulda made me be born in a communist country or sumink :|

 

It is getting beyond a joke now! 67% of the price in tax! I'd rather drop the price of fuel and put little extra on road tax, then they might have enough money to repair all the f*$cking pot holes.

 

exactly, Fix the pot holes. It's bloody ridiculous the amount of holes in the roads

 

You know, there was someone on here that had their classic converted to LPG.

Seemed to cope OK.

 

The percentage that is tax is actually going down pretty sharply as duty is a fixed rate not a percentage. It is the oil price that has caused most of the recent rises.

I never understand why when the oil price drives the price up everyone blames the government yet they were paying the same duty when it was 30p less a litre (well excepting the additional penny they levied recently) and yet no one said anything then.

 

I've seen the damage lpg does to a turbo engine, its not worth it

 

Dug out some pics of myself tonight working on a garage forecourt circa 1977 petrol 84 pence a gallon !

 

Paid £1.38 a litre tonight, first time Ive actually bothered to look at the price as it just irritates me when I do, so I usually fill up without looking!

At £1.38 a litre, I felt like I'd been bummed by a large penised man

 

You have, he's called George Osbourne

 

I'm not saying it's all the goverments faulty but there is too much tax on fuel anyway.
Makes me laugh when it's all over the news for a week about it going up 2p a litre! It goes up and down, mostly up, pretty much every week, noone says a word.

 

1976 Hillman Imp filled up my first tankful at 78p a gallon !

dunx

P.S. Paying more VEL isn't going to fix any pot-holes...

 

Time to get mi self and old deisel runabout and fill it with red deisel like i use to do,To many people in this country with to much money who dont give a toss about the price of anything or how much it rises,it doesnt bother them and they dont care about the working man and his family who it does affect.Shame the british arnt like the french,they wouldnt allow this to happen in there country and they stand together as equals,not like this dump.

 

also when they say they are stickin the price up by 1p, doesnt it usually end up about 5p with vat etc

i wonder what the yanks are thinkin about all this heh

 

Bit NIMBY?

How this directly affects us - My partner works in MK and lives in Northampton. around this time last year it cost around 150.00 per month for work fuel. Now it is around 230-250 per month. no pay rise last year so we are 1000.00 worse off a year just to put fuel in the car just to go to work. Parking has also gone up as well.

we run a 2.0l Honda, not a scoob!

 

Well take your word for it , if thats okay

 

Seems to be cheaper than T99 these days

Can't see £2 a litre any time soon myself ... one day of course as inflation will take it there over time.

TX.

 

You're getting seriously robbed mate, V Power is £1.33 a litre with us "darn sarf" ...

TX.

 

FPMSL £1.33 a litre is £6.04 a gallon ...

TX.

 

Say its going to be £2/litre and then raise it to £1.80 = uk folk say "ahhh its not so bad!"

FACT

 

it says in the news today osbourne is hoping to reduce fuel duty to try and keep price down,not gonna hold my breath though grrrr ,
gonna be using my bike or walk to work i think,only a couple of miles so im lucky

 

Rent is going up 5.2% this year, petrol going up, only one thing that isn't going up and that's my wages

 

Red diesel is just as expensive nowadays

 

i was down on the m5, didnt really look at the price just filled up heh :d

 

Me circa 1977 petrol 82 pence a gallon !

 

You are forgetting they charge 20% vat on top of the fuel tax and fuel base cost, so although the fuel duty as a % of price is dropping when the base stock price rises, you still get reamed 20% extra on top of the extra cost of the base fuel, so total tax take does go up when crude prices go up, and with VAT now set at 20% that's rather a big hike!

 

82p/L

 

Still gone up i believe than what it used to be.
Well my supplier rates has

 

I'm in on causing some havok over it lol, lets get some names down and start a revolution, get thous and thousands of people, set fuel stations on fire and all :P Just start blocking streets too. Don't fudge with us, or we'll fudge you harder!

Thanks
Sam