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| Local lass |
The petrol protestsagree with them or disagree with them?http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/...t-protesters-block-45dbed5_3.html |
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| pimpdriver |
the price has steadily slipped up over the past few months. What choice do we have? I need to drive 110 miles a day to get to work and back so i have to pay the price. | ||
| Local lass |
What choice do we have
we may not have a lot of choise as its a must for are every day life style but that is not to say we can not do anything about it. 
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| Bear |
Why are we protesting to the oil companies as I beleive somethink like 80% of the cost of fuel is tax shouldnt we be protesting at the government | ||
| Top Dog |
£1.09 in the bp garage in town 
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| Local lass |
they have us hook ,line and sinker .they could charge 10 pund per litre and we would buy it because we need it.
i fully agree with the protests what are held. |
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| Bear |
At some stage in the future when the oil reserves run out we will have to find an alternative method of transport this may be by some new technological advance such as electrically powered motor vehicles or it could be by a return to the old form of transport known as horse and cart. I read somewhere that for anyone living and travelling in London the speed of traffic in 2008 is actually slower than 1908 and when you consider the cost of a horse to buy and keep one has to wonder why more people have not reverted back to this form of transport plus you get free horse dung for your roses. | ||
| rosco |
Very true, and what does the govenrment do with all that money raked in? Certainly little to subsides other more economic forms of transport or invest in less-pollution fuels than petrol. I don't think a fuel protest will help, probably would make the government happy to see attention deflected from them to the oil companies. |
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| GTB |
Hasn't Shell just made a record £14 billion (£14,000,000,000.00) profit? A lot of the tax raised over fuel is under the guise of being green. How come the yanks have cheap fuel then? | ||
| rosco |
Low taxation is why, although it has been going up there as well. |
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| Bear |
Yes its tax that makes the difference but in Britain you are collared in all sorts of ways as a motorist firstly you make tax on fuel then you may a tax to put the car on the road (Road Fund Licence) and then if your car needs a service or new tyres or an MOT or any kind of repair you have to pay VAT on the cost of that. Now ostensibly the road fund licence is to pay for the upkeep of the infrastructure namely the roads and i havent seen any figures but I would ask how much of it does go on that and how much does it cost to run the DVLA and does any of the tax on fuel go towards the cost of road upkeep. Oh and I forgot any speeding fines the poor motorist might have to pay. | ||
| pimpdriver |
The cheapet petrol round here is in Wootton Bassett.
Normally it is the Shell garage on the right as you go out the other side, but yesterday I saw these prices: Shell 102.9p (unleaded) Esso (further up on the left) 101.9p Esso (Coped Hall after you turn right at the roundabout on the way to Swindon) 100.9p!!!!!!! Get yourself to Wootton....... |
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