Petrol Prices.....Yawn, sorry.....

[Vman]

WTF is going on 130/l!?!?

All I can think of doing as a protest is to stop using my car/bike and get on my trusty push bike. But, I can't help thinking that that option is kind of playing into 'their' hands anyway.

Why oh why don't garage forecourts display the price as a split to show us punters just how much of that staggering price is tax and VAT (we pay VAT on tax on petrol????).

Sorry I know this subject has been done to death on here....

[Chalky.]

Ride/drive faster.

You may as well get the most enjoyment out of it you can

[kestrel]

Petrol 132/L here in isle of man this morning, diesel 138/L...... looking for a cheap C90

[TheDonUK]

With a C90 petrol prices are pretty much irrelevant, 2 pound fill ups

That said, possibly getting an R1 tomorrow so will be a shock adjusting to 20 quid at a time...

I would like to protest but see the likelihood of anything gaining critical momentum unlikely, thats probably what most think which is why it wont work. I cant see it going back down to the 70-80p/litre days...
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[Hetzer]

Seems to me the scum running this country are keen for riots. And they'll get them eventually, because this whole cost of everything going through the roof while wages remain frozen or are reduced cannot go on indefinitely.
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[TheDonUK]

Pulling a figure out of my ass only 10-20% of motorists would be willing to do a proper effective protest, its not enough to force change.

I cant see people rebelling short of £1.50-£2/litre
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Even with the current tax rises (including the implementation of labours last fuel duty increase) the percentage tax is low compared to previous times (it was around 80% tax when the fuel strikes were on, nearer 60% now).

Oil prices haven't gone up massively over the years. What has happened is that the pound isn't as over priced as it was previously, pushing up the price of imported oil. A US$70 barrel of oil was about £33 when it was $2.10 = £1, which now about £46 at $1.50 = £1.

The over priced pound was just a way to make inflation look low by making imports cheaper. Now we are just paying for it with the price rises that should have happened years ago.

All the best

Keith
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[Hetzer]

[Kickstart]

Hi

True, but the only solution is to actually start producing things that other countries pay us for, or at least producing things so that we don't have to import them.

First stage of that is to make the UK an affordable place to produce things, and a first place to do that (and there are loads of other things to be done, such as reducing the pointless government bureaucracy) is to reduce the value of the pound.

Sure we could probably keep getting more loans and higher interest rates to drive up the value of the pound, but long term it would just make things worse.

When you are in a hole, stop digging. Sure sucks if your job is digging the hole and you are now unemployed though.

All the best

Keith
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[Vman]

Taxes on petrol are at around 80p/l, and yes whilst the above may well be factually correct, it does not make it 'right'. The current government failed to implement the 'variable' taxation on fuel to keep some sort of price stability.

For all those poor sods who have to commute a reasonable distance to a low paid job, these sorts of price rises are killer. Depressingly, I fear that 2011 may be a very hard year.

[Hetzer]

The biggest, No1 solution, is to have people at the top who care more about the population than their own selfish interests and having the biggest and the bestest and the mostest of everything. And hearing filth like Cameron and his scumbag cronies squawking "We're all in this together" doesn't make the nut.

The world's economy isn't run for the general benefit of all humanity, it's run for the benefit of a handful of vermin. That's why our human civilisation is in the mess it's in.
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[Flip]

We will see another fuel protest like we did in 2000?

[Hetzer]

[Chalky.]

[woll]

RIOT!
That's all.
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[Kickstart]

[spit1972]

They want unleaded to £1.50l by summer

[Hetzer]

Health...have the NHS run by other than total fucktards and corrupt scum.

Welfare...give people jobs with living wages (real-world living, not 3rd-world living) and don't then thieve most of it in taxes. Welfare would sort itself out.
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[Chalky.]

[woll]

Chalky why have you got those bikes in your sig? been dreaming?
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Current Bike- Suzuki DRZ400 SM K6
Previous bikes - Derbi Senda Xtreme50r, Honda CBR 125, Kawasaki ZZR 250, Yamaha DT125R, Suzuki Bandit 600, Gas gas ec 250, Honda CBR600FW
Damaged spleen, damaged kindey, 2 popped lungs, 2 broken ribs, broken face, broken wrist and 5 back fractures... remember kids walls hurt

[Hetzer]

[Chalky.]

[Kickstart]

[Hetzer]

[swanny]