Petrol under £1/litre

[Rags]

Dont care if its a repost but im filling up all my cars tonight

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gSX3OTY9i2...

[Vesuvius 996]

Rags said:

Dont care if its a repost but im filling up all my cars tonight

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gSX3OTY9i2...

Great, only £4.50 a gallon FFS.

[MrVelox]

How about they tax Petrol at roughly twice what they tax most any other consumer good at, that would put it around 40-45p/L

[BMWBen]

mmmm glug glug glug

Unfortunately - the spring, summer and autumn is when I do most of my miles (sailing season, towing my boat around the country)

[Bee_Jay]

You are happy to put Asda fuel in your car??? There's a reason why it's cheap...

[GKP]

More than happy to put Asda or Morrisons fuel in my car. It was designed with jerry cans of dubious alcohol/petrol/camel juice mixtures in mind.

[507bhp]

Bee_Jay said:

You are happy to put Asda fuel in your car??? There's a reason why it's cheap...

bks. I didn't realise they had their own refineries!!

Next you'll be saying that the Asda chocolate biscuit factory is worse than Tesco's

[chris_w666]

The point people are missing is that on a £1 litre of fuel we are still giving Brown a huge %age. It's not the fuel companies ripping us off its the feckless clan in Downing street.

[Bee_Jay]

507bhp said:

Bee_Jay said:

You are happy to put Asda fuel in your car??? There's a reason why it's cheap...

bks. I didn't realise they had their own refineries!!

Next you'll be saying that the Asda chocolate biscuit factory is worse than Tesco's

Yes, because there's no history at all of supermarkets just buying the cheapest crap they can and screwing customers cars is there????

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/01/transp...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

ETA PH Thread linky

Edited by Bee_Jay on Wednesday 15th October 17:03

[CooperS]

chris_w666 said:

The point people are missing is that on a £1 litre of fuel we are still giving Brown a huge %age. It's not the fuel companies ripping us off its the feckless clan in Downing street.

BUT they dont help the situation by marking it up like they do... but your right Mr Brown is a faceless T**T for extracting far to much tax from something which most poeple cant do without.

[BigLepton]

507bhp said:

Bee_Jay said:

You are happy to put Asda fuel in your car??? There's a reason why it's cheap...

bks. I didn't realise they had their own refineries!!

The supermarkets mostly buy their petrol and diesel from www.greenergy.com whereas the big name forecourts produce their own, so in many ways, yes they do have their own refineries.

[patmahe]

Just be glad you don't live over here in Ireland, our beloved government has seen fit to add 8c per litre to the price of petrol overnight, just when it was coming down(its not like they dont take enough out of it as it is). Oh and raise road tax by 4%, and take 1% of my gross annual wage.

I feel like emigrating, but there's now a €10 tax on leaving the country, I kid you not.

[Saied]

I'll next be fuelling up on the way to the brilliant Kent Run at crack of dawn on Sunday morning.

There may be another penny a litre shaved off by then.

[sniff diesel]

MrVelox said:

How about they tax Petrol at roughly twice what they tax most any other consumer good at, that would put it around 40-45p/L

If the taxed it at the same rate as cigarettes it would be over £10 a litre.

[anonymous-user]

I'm currently in Indiana. When I arrived here on Sep 29th we were paying $3.30 per (US) gallon. Paid $2.75 yesterday.

[DAVEVO9]

Bee_Jay said:

You are happy to put Asda fuel in your car??? There's a reason why it's cheap...

Peasant fuel

[tim2100]

unrepentant said:

I'm currently in Indiana. When I arrived here on Sep 29th we were paying $3.30 per (US) gallon. Paid $2.75 yesterday.

Shame you can't bring it back!

[anonymous-user]

tim2100 said:

unrepentant said:

I'm currently in Indiana. When I arrived here on Sep 29th we were paying $3.30 per (US) gallon. Paid $2.75 yesterday.

Shame you can't bring it back!

No kidding. And the yanks are bhin about $3 a gallon!

There's a huge difference in attitude too. Whilst our politicians take pride in fleecing us, claiming that high fuel taxes help the environment, every candidate in the US elections has spoken of how the high cost of "gas" is affecting US families and how it needs to be addressed.

[PJR]

unrepentant said:

tim2100 said:

unrepentant said:

I'm currently in Indiana. When I arrived here on Sep 29th we were paying $3.30 per (US) gallon. Paid $2.75 yesterday.

Shame you can't bring it back!

No kidding. And the yanks are bhin about $3 a gallon!

There's a huge difference in attitude too. Whilst our politicians take pride in fleecing us, claiming that high fuel taxes help the environment, every candidate in the US elections has spoken of how the high cost of "gas" is affecting US families and how it needs to be addressed.

How crazy is that... Us brits can brown nose the Americans by backing them up in pointless wars. But we can't take an example from their bargain fuel prices. Even if they do think their own prices are extortionate!
This country isn't getting genuinely better any time soon is it..

P,

[Marquis_Rex]

PJR said:

unrepentant said:

tim2100 said:

unrepentant said:

I'm currently in Indiana. When I arrived here on Sep 29th we were paying $3.30 per (US) gallon. Paid $2.75 yesterday.

Shame you can't bring it back!

No kidding. And the yanks are bhin about $3 a gallon!

There's a huge difference in attitude too. Whilst our politicians take pride in fleecing us, claiming that high fuel taxes help the environment, every candidate in the US elections has spoken of how the high cost of "gas" is affecting US families and how it needs to be addressed.

How crazy is that... Us brits can brown nose the Americans by backing them up in pointless wars. But we can't take an example from their bargain fuel prices. Even if they do think their own prices are extortionate!
This country isn't getting genuinely better any time soon is it..

P,

I noticed this too. In the UK it seems like a war of the middle classes and hard workers against the government and chav scum/general parasite dross. In america the Government at least pretend to try to appeal to the middle classes and hard workers. Its quite refreshing.

Edited by Marquis_Rex on Wednesday 15th October 18:16