Fonz
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Telegraph Motoring
The petition is supported by many motoring organisations including the AA, RAC and petrolprices.com, along with the Conservatives and dozens of Labour MPs.
£1800 is alot to be paying per year...i'm hoping something is done at some point 
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Fonz
i'm hoping something is done at some point
It will be.
Fuel duty will be lowered, but national road pricing will be introduced and you'll end up paying even more.
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Whittie
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I thought they could do NOTHING about it. The price of oil has gone up so much, they cannot bring the price of petrol down, until oil prices decrease.
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Pete_vxl
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how can that be the case if other countries are still getting it cheap? the government need to stop being money grabbing bastards
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Whittie
I thought they could do NOTHING about it. The price of oil has gone up so much, they cannot bring the price of petrol down, until oil prices decrease.
Its about 66p in the £1 that is tax on fuel prices (might be more?), so although oil prices are high its nothing compared to the fuel tax rates.
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
I thought they could do NOTHING about it. The price of oil has gone up so much, they cannot bring the price of petrol down, until oil prices decrease.
Its about 66p in the £1 that is tax on fuel prices (might be more?), so although oil prices are high its nothing compared to the fuel tax rates.
Ahh right, fair enough
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Fonz
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66p?  i remember when a litre used to cost that much!!
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Whittie
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Originally posted by Fonz
66p? i remember when a litre used to cost that much!!
What year was that? early 90's?
[Edited on 22-05-2008 by Whittie]
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Cosmo
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It was 71.9p a litre when I passed my test in April 2002!
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JM_16v
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my petrol cost me £1.149 this morning i wouldnt mind if it was super.... but it was crap cos thats all they had £30=25 litres
id be happy with £1 a litre
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Dean_W
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I was speaking to some yanks on the x-box yesterday, they couldn't believe that we pay what we do for petrol.
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John
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You do know they'll 'scrap' the 2p fuel duty then keep increasing it as they have been anyway except everybody will praise them for dropping the 2p just because they know about it.
The british public in general are idiots.
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willay
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Our tax is smashing it, then we have all the expansion in the east which is making it pricey too, over $120 dollars for a barrel, ouch.
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Dave A
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is fuel duty calculated by a percentage?
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Ren
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A 2p drop wont make any difference to me. Neither will a 10p drop. I'm paying £1.24 a litre for diesel now, and just because those idiots in the government have raised it almost 50%, people will love the idea of it dropping down to £1.05 and praise the goverment for doing so... But not me. I want it back under £1 (diesel) because the tax is extortionate, and I wonder what road-tax is used for.
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Wrighty
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i hope something happens soon, i relly do
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Dean_W
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In this country we suffer from 'by the bollocks' syndrome.
The public transport system is a mess, so you can't get form A to B easily. Got no other option apart from drive, bike or walk.
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XSIHardy
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right we went to iraq or w.e and toke a fuck load of oil of them
so why is it so much ?
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Dean_W
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Originally posted by XSIHardy
right we went to iraq or w.e and toke a fuck load of oil of them
so why is it so much ?
Read up on it first mate. Coz you aint a clue.
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Colin
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$135 for a barrel of Brent crude today......thats unbelievable it was $90 about 14 months ago!!
I cant see anything happening, it would be good but then that flying pig I saw down the road told me im deluded if I think anything will!!
[Edited on 22-05-2008 by Colin]
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Colin
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Boycot Esso......
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Colin
I cant see anything happening, it would be good but then that flying pig I saw down the road told me im deluded if I think anything will!!
Maybe you could put a saddle on it and use it as transport?
Surely feeding it scraps would be cheaper than petrol for your car, and would get you past any traffic jams!
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Kevxx
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The cost of oil has not increased, and we often sell our own produced oil which would keep us going for years!
Our government make around 80p of every litre you buy, then fuel company make around 15p, the rest is what pays wages etc!
Your being lied to if you think fuel should be anything near the price it is.
Nothing will happen, the price of fuel will drop, road tax will go up! Forever we're fucked here like!
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loo_goblin
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our accountant told us to pre buy our years fuel
did you know a barrel costs only $2.5 to pump out of the ground
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Kevxx
The cost of oil has not increased
Yes it has, it now costs $135 a barrel and it didn't previously 
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