We are all getting robbed at the pumps!, does anyone care?.
Discussion
Dave Hedgehog said:
well someone has to pay for all those millions of immigrants that moved here for all the freebies
And for all the British nationals who have 20 kids and claim 30k a year in benefits.And for all the British nationals who go out and get overly blotto on a Friday and Sat night, fall over/fight and break themselves, and end up in A&E because of this.
The fact that the banks f
ked up and took a massive bailout from the treasury.One that applies here more, all the divvies who text and drive/don't drive to the conditions etc and cause a pile up on the motorway which costs the economy millions.
What other problems are you going to blame this supposed 'robbery' on?
Swanny87 said:
Dave Hedgehog said:
well someone has to pay for all those millions of immigrants that moved here for all the freebies
And for all the British nationals who have 20 kids and claim 30k a year in benefits.And for all the British nationals who go out and get overly blotto on a Friday and Sat night, fall over/fight and break themselves, and end up in A&E because of this.
The fact that the banks f
ked up and took a massive bailout from the treasury.One that applies here more, all the divvies who text and drive/don't drive to the conditions etc and cause a pile up on the motorway which costs the economy millions.
What other problems are you going to blame this supposed 'robbery' on?
Antracer said:
I dont need to explain myself it's pretty obvious whats going on yet no one has done a thing about it.
THIEVING GOVERNMENT
I believe an organised protest is in order.
What-ho, an organised protest you say? Hor-rah, count me in!THIEVING GOVERNMENT
I believe an organised protest is in order.
Just to be clear though, are you organising it?
Or is this one of those 'something needs to be done about something that annoys me, but it needs to be done by someone else' comments made by people who bleat away in the corner of life's stage, never really seeming to make a meaningful difference to anything or anyone?
I'm just checking before I pack my banners and sandwiches you see.
Edited by Matt UK on Wednesday 4th March 14:58
Mr2Mike said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Less than 25%, because so much of the petrol price is tax. That is precisely the point.
That is not the point the OP was making. He naively expects forecourt prices to track crude oil prices proportionally, but this simply can't happen as the tax is a fixed cost, not to mention the overhead of refining the the stuff.8Ace said:
Not entirely a bad thing either as it makes the price at the pump much less volatile when crude prices go crackers.
Does it? Locally we have the majority of pumps ( three) under one company name. What we see is one station gets a delivery, price goes up by 1/2 p /litre, and others in that franchise follow suite, even though they haven't had a delivery. The little independents follow suite and prices rise to that of the first station. next week another in the franchise gets a delivery and all stations rise by another 1/2p. Few weeks ago ,prices came down slowly by 1/2p litre, but about 2 miles away prices fell by 5/6p . Still I notice the sheep still blindly bleating into the overpriced local pumps. I follow petrolprices.com and find the nearest place to me. Currently at a fill of £10 and MPG of circa 50 ,at worst I break even. But Mr High price loses custom. IF we all did this, then PERHAPS the oil companies who set the at the pump price might drop their pump prices to regain sales. Far better than boycotting one company , just reward those that do.
Antracer said:
Well that is an intelligent response. Welcome to the discussion. You sound like some half wit moron "duh that guy is stupid".
I'm going to provide evidence from only one of your postsnow as I find more unnecessary.Antracer said:
45% drop in oil price, less than 20% at the pumps.
You equate the cost of crude oil to the price of petrol and ignore relevant facts such as the cost of transporting it, refining it and other associated costs to bring it to sale.Antracer said:
filling their greedy pockets thats what.
How is the government 'greedy'? Do the people who set the taxes take a cut? You seem to think that taxation is some kind of scam or unfair, as if the government simply wants money, rather than collecting it to run myriad public services.
Nice to see that only one person linked to the BBC article that had a link to an eu document about wholesale petrol prices in Europe, std unleaded wholesale price is 32/33p a litre and the rest of the retail price is made up duty, vat and retailer profit.
What is shows is the oil price only affects a third of the retail cost, trying to punish the oil companies makes no sense as they aren't the dominant factor in the retail price.
This is like complaining about the music the band played as the Titanic sank, pointless and futile but don't let that stand in the way of a good bhin thread.
What is shows is the oil price only affects a third of the retail cost, trying to punish the oil companies makes no sense as they aren't the dominant factor in the retail price.
This is like complaining about the music the band played as the Titanic sank, pointless and futile but don't let that stand in the way of a good b
hin thread.Justin Case said:
Wasn't someone recently suggesting on another thread that fuel tax should actually go up and VED eliminated. Having just shelled out (dreadful pun intended) £265 for a years VED, I might even agree with that if the sums add up for me.
I for one welcome this idea. Saves taxing cars and the department, and people get charged more who do 20k in their diesel bimmer, rather than the bloke driving a v8 2k a year.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff