RE: £5 Gallon Milestone Reached
Wednesday 12th March 2008
The price of petrol has hit £5 a gallon at a motorway service station for the first time, it as been reported.
£5 Gallon Milestone Reached
Service station now forcing drivers to pay £5 a gallon
It is understood that a service station on the M40 reached the milestone after selling petrol at 110.9p for a litre of unleaded, over the 110p threshold for a £5 gallon.
Although fuel has reached £5 before in smaller petrol stations this is the first time drivers have no choice but to pay, as it is at a motorway services.
Motorists will have to wait until later today to see if Chancellor Alistair Darling chooses to increase the price of petrol further through higher taxes.
It is estimated that petrol is 17p a litre more expensive than a year ago and now costs an extra £8.59 to fill up an average 50-litre fuel tank.
The AA claims motorists are paying £18.41 a month more for petrol than the same period in 2007.
Discussion
This is old news, I say Super Unleaded in Warwick at the Shell station at 117p a litre about 6 months ago!
More worrying is the chancellors proposal for a "Showroom tax" on new cars (supposedly just the high polluting ones). Not sure how he is going to determine high polluting but I would assume this is high emission vehicles, but if you don't do many miles then the argument is completely flawed.
If you buy a vehicle which cannot be recycled at the end of its life then surely this is more environmentally damaging than a car that can be?
But then as we all know this Government are idiots, don't think things through and are just paying lips service to green issues anyway. I see the t
ts at Greenpeace / Friends of the Earth are already bleating about Darling not introducing the proposed 2p a litre tax increase he was planning.
More worrying is the chancellors proposal for a "Showroom tax" on new cars (supposedly just the high polluting ones). Not sure how he is going to determine high polluting but I would assume this is high emission vehicles, but if you don't do many miles then the argument is completely flawed.
If you buy a vehicle which cannot be recycled at the end of its life then surely this is more environmentally damaging than a car that can be?
But then as we all know this Government are idiots, don't think things through and are just paying lips service to green issues anyway. I see the t
ts at Greenpeace / Friends of the Earth are already bleating about Darling not introducing the proposed 2p a litre tax increase he was planning.
Those f!ckwits at Greenpeas need shooting, they don't mention the fact that each of their ships burns enough diesel in one year to power your average diesel car for 1000 years!!
Everyone also bleats on how environmentally friendly cars like the Toyota Prius are but of course they never take in to account the pollution created by building one including its nasty batteries! It has been proven that a Prius emits more CO2 per mile in it's life than a 4 litre V8 Land Rover!
Time to bring this government down by any means possible!
Stef
Everyone also bleats on how environmentally friendly cars like the Toyota Prius are but of course they never take in to account the pollution created by building one including its nasty batteries! It has been proven that a Prius emits more CO2 per mile in it's life than a 4 litre V8 Land Rover!
Time to bring this government down by any means possible!
Stef
They complain about the amount of people on benefits but when you look at the prices of fuel and the state of the public transport you can see why there are so many people on benefits.
One single mum I know would be worse off if she got a job! where’s the sense in that? the cost of fuel/transport is getting ridiculous!
One single mum I know would be worse off if she got a job! where’s the sense in that? the cost of fuel/transport is getting ridiculous!
N-ytra-m said:
They complain about the amount of people on benefits but when you look at the prices of fuel and the state of the public transport you can see why there are so many people on benefits.
One single mum I know would be worse off if she got a job! where’s the sense in that? the cost of fuel/transport is getting ridiculous!
Quite.One single mum I know would be worse off if she got a job! where’s the sense in that? the cost of fuel/transport is getting ridiculous!
It doesn't matter anyway, all the scrounging hippies with nine kids have rented out their council houses and are in Goa on their benefits anyway.
Sorry, that's eight kids.
'Service station now forcing drivers to pay £5 a gallon'
B******* nobody is being forced to do anything, if you come off at any given junction you would find a forecourt within a few miles.
Does make me misty eyed for those just passed the test days ('94 I think) when I paid 42p/ltr
Tax cut has got to be in order. Quick.
B******* nobody is being forced to do anything, if you come off at any given junction you would find a forecourt within a few miles.
Does make me misty eyed for those just passed the test days ('94 I think) when I paid 42p/ltr
Tax cut has got to be in order.
Quick.sorry guys but it will never go down in price. This country is almost bankrupt, as a business UK plc is spending more than it earns. If it wasn't fuel it would be something else. its F.U.B.A.R. We need a goverment with a transparent taxing policy who might actually tell us the truth about things. Stand up be a man and tell us why we have to pay these taxes. Quanitfy what is spent and allocate taxes to each job. or am i living in a dream world.
A shell near me has been selling diesel at 111.9 for weeks and it was 113.9 this morning!
And they claim the north is cheaper than the south. Piffle!
Also live very close to a refinery and the shell garage is less than 2 miles from one, surely it should be cheaper here!
And they claim the north is cheaper than the south. Piffle!
Also live very close to a refinery and the shell garage is less than 2 miles from one, surely it should be cheaper here!
Edited by chris_w666 on Wednesday 12th March 12:29
Well diesel was 110.9p at my local Morrisons when I put some in this morning. Which is the cheapest near me (and probably below national average price anyway!).
Enough is enough, I'm starting buying bio-diesel this weekend. Even using a 60/40 mix while it's cold will see me paying about 90p per litre, that's a bit more manageable. I think I'm currently spending more on fuel than anything else other than my mortgage.
Enough is enough, I'm starting buying bio-diesel this weekend. Even using a 60/40 mix while it's cold will see me paying about 90p per litre, that's a bit more manageable. I think I'm currently spending more on fuel than anything else other than my mortgage.
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