Monday 18th July 2005

Petrol passes the £1 barrier

Prices went up last week as some pay £1.10/litre

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Prices soar as oil hits $60/barrel

Petrol prices have hit £1+ per litre -- at least they have if you live on Scotland's Western Isles. In Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, petrol was £1.09 for unleaded, £1.10 for diesel, while in Benbecula, it was £1.028 for unleaded petrol and £1.038 for diesel. On the mainland, prices went up to around 90p per litre on Friday.

While some on the islands see it as an unfair tax on the island, the oil companies' usual mantra is to cite the extra cost of shipping the stuff to a remote location. That contrasts with the petrol station on the Orkney island of Rousay, where Chris and Marion Clark are subsidising petrol prices with what they make in their petrol station shop because they cannot bring themselves to charge the 250 islanders the true cost. They should have been charging over £1 for unleaded and diesel at their pumps for the past year but yesterday the price board showed just 98p a litre for petrol and 99p for diesel.

According to a report ion the Glasgow Herald, Clark said: "Basically we dropped our margin from 12.5 per cent to 10 per cent on fuel. We try to be fair and give the heavy users such as the contractors on the island a further discount, otherwise the cost just gets added to the cost of the job."

[bunglist]

I think it is about time that the country saw another fuel blockade, as the prices on fuel are getting even more ridiculous than they already have been.:eek:

What does everyone else think?

Why does this Labour scum keep taxing the s:censored:e out of us and then squander it on civil servents (bureaucracy and red tape).

Round of applause needed for all the polictically illiterate people out there that voted for this shambles that call themselves the government. :clap:

[blunder13]

I said I would give up smoking when they went over £5, now I just smoke a cheeper brand. Not much I can do about the petrol though!

[8Pack]

Gave up cigarettes 30 years ago,........ the drinks next!

In fact......The whole bloody ecomomy can go to hell first before I'll give up my car! .........................