[Edited on 31-12-10 by speedyxjs]
Iv just worked out that if i fill my car up before the VAT goes up on tuesday, il save £2!
[Edited on 31-12-10 by speedyxjs]
Oh - I did mine yesterday... result!
i think they've already added a couple of pence, so i think tues will only bring a couple more pennies. Certainly my local ones have all risen in the last week, 124.9 for diseasel at best, to 127.9.
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Originally posted by JoelP
i think they've already added a couple of pence, so i think tues will only bring a couple more pennies. Certainly my local ones have all risen in the last week, 124.9 for diseasel at best, to 127.9.
I think thats a F'king liberty, and an excuse to charge over the odds and blame the government. 
When fuel approached 99p the country went berserk, yet now its almost £1.50 the country seems to have run out of british grit (in more ways than one
actually!)
i agree its a liberty, but there isnt much that the retailers can do about vat and duty.
What really gets me is that fact that when i started to drive 6 years ago, fuel was 70p per litre! It has nearly doubled in 6 years!!!
When I started driving (1981) petrol was £1.80/gallon but increased almost immediately to £2/gallon = 44p/litre. The retail price index has increased
by about 3.1 since then, so the equivalent price today would be £1.40/l, so I guess the government would say its cheap today!
Regards
Hugh
Hey Speedy, look on the brightside, fuel wasn't as cheap back then as you thought!
The recent price rises are part tax, part greed, and part weak pound.
Matt
^^^ That is quite interesting
Already @ £129.9 a litre here since boxing day for diesel. I rammed both cars full to the brim Xmas eve in anticipation
Petrol was about 1.27 here the week before christmas.
I think unfortunately once it went above the magical 100p figure it was going to go up quite quickly.... Most businesses are using the increase in VAT
to hide above-VAT price increases....
Looks like it's time to get out the chip fat and start making my own
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Originally posted by BenB
I think unfortunately once it went above the magical 100p figure it was going to go up quite quickly.... Most businesses are using the increase in VAT to hide above-VAT price increases....
Looks like it's time to get out the chip fat and start making my own
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124.9 for diseasel at best, to 127.9.
The reason that there are no blockades is as anybody on here who owns a haulage business or a company that run a fair amount of company cars will tell
you,they are all subsidised by the goverment now.
A company i used to work for ran a fleet of trucks and 20+ company cars,we all had Allstar fuel cards,they payed the pump price and if the company as
a whole used a certain amount of fuel there was a rebate sceme in place.
I cannot remember exactly how much but it was around 10-15p per litre,thats why there is no blokades and no wagon drivers going mad at the moment,it
only effects the man on the street as normal and nobody does anything about it.
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Originally posted by nick205
Already @ £129.9 a litre here since boxing day for diesel. I rammed both cars full to the brim Xmas eve in anticipation
Not just petrol.look at the hike in heating oil,over 20p a litre in a few months to 70p a litre .Just to put that into perspective when i moved into
my current house 12yrs ago it was 9p a litre.My tank hold 1200 litres
and the scary thing is that there is no chance of it going down again
just got back from france diesel is currently £1 per litre there, we are getting royally shafted.
............that also includes their road tax!! so if you drive a 4x4 then you are doubly shafted
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Originally posted by sonic
I cannot remember exactly how much but it was around 10-15p per litre,thats why there is no blokades and no wagon drivers going mad at the moment,it only effects the man on the street as normal and nobody does anything about it.
Blockading fuel wouldn't help anyway, It just makes it more valuable.
I don't know how far along it is but the Government said they were proposing a bill to have a petitions site on Direct.gov and promissed to
debate any with more than a certain number of signitures (with term and conditions to weed out the crazy stuff). Not that it would help mind, there
isn't any party that wants fuel to be cheaper, I still say that if you formed a major party on that platform you'd have great odds at
winning a general election.
But no way of paying for national debt without the virtual vat which is fuel duty(and so effects everything we buy that isn't virtual)