Fuel prices are up again – with reports saying one filling station in Chelsea is charging an amazing 134p for a litre of petrol.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has blamed oil producers for not increasing supply, causing oil prices to rise.
But the price can’t purely be blamed on the rocketing prices of crude oil.
In the UK, after including the duty and VAT paid on a litre of fuel, tax makes up more than 60 per cent of the cost.
Car makers are making the vehicles they sell more efficient, but this doesn’t help people who rely on their cars but can’t afford a new, clean machine.
Are these prices tempting you away from your car and onto the bus or mountain bike?
So how much are you paying for a litre of diesel or unleaded? And where did you buy it?
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the fuel here in north yorkshire is reaching 119.9p per litre for diesel and i saw a service station selling it for 123.9 the other day it is ridiculous and me as a college student who travels to and from college each day can bareley afford fuel to get to and from college.
Correction:
“beer … is a heck of a lot cheaper than petrol” should read “beer … is a heck of a lot dearer than petrol”
Apols for any confusion
PS; Omar, you’ll want to be in this country when the rest of the world runs out of oil and Britain still has the massive reserves untouched under the Falklands, cause then we’ll be stinging the countries that forced us to buy oil at $high per barrel..
Ahh.. stop your complaining, all of you. Relative to what your weekly wage is, petrol’s cheaper than it’s ever been. If it’s such an isuse, stop buying it. But you wont do that will you? You’ll carry on buying it until you literally cannot afford to drive to work any more. I dont see anyone whining about the price of beer, and at £3.50 a pint (£28 a gallon) its a heck of a lot cheaper than petrol.. I could whine about the good old days when petrol was 60p a litre (11 years ago, when I started driving), but I earn 10 times more per week than I did then, and it’s only doubled in price. I’m quids in!
“The price of petrol is stealing” – hah, yeah right.. Where do you think money comes from? The government print it, they let you have it for a time because you think it’s important, but they want it back. It’s not stealing, it’s taxation. As Kayc Jones says, noone is forcing you to buy it, so go and bleed somewhere else. Move closer to work, buy a bicycle for less than the cost of 1 years finance on your precious vanity-necessity BMW X5 that you cant afford to run because you lied about your earnings in order to get the drip, and get a healthier outlook on life. If might even stop you complaining like a 4 year old who had his dummy taken off him.
“Vanity – my favourite sin” – Devils Advocate
Money makes money, what do you except your living in one of the world’s most expensiviest countries?!?! No one is forcing you to buy petrol at such prices, if you collectively agree to do something about it, then something will be done. The fact is the majority of you are all weak individuals who talk big but can’t follow up on your words? Capisce?
Diesel at my local BP station, who have just announced making 3.92 billion profit in the first 3 months of this year, has risen from 115.9 on the 7th April 2008 to 122.9 on the 28th April 2008. (I’m not a petrol price researcher, I have just started a new job and this station is en-route!)
Why on earth should the the car driver be penalised fro utilising an essential commodity (the motor vehicle). I live in a small town in Dorset and work in a small village in Wiltshire for a big company (HMPrison Service). There is no alternative way for me to get to work using the ‘political answer to all of our problems’ public transport.
I used to be so proud to be British but just what the hell is the Government doing to this once great, leading country. I pay tax after tax and sometimes I get tax deducted on commodities that I have already paid tax on at source. Gordon Brown and his cabinet need to be held accountable for their actions and start working in the interests of the majority. Sorry, rant over!!
the amount we now pay for petrol and diesel is beyond stealing its just plain money sucking to cover the debts of the government wars……not forgetting the outstanding finance on their Bentleys. problem is people are far too lazy to do anything, prices go up people whine for a while then eventually get used to it. this is just another small example of the falls of our ‘great English empire’…………………………pathetic and crumbling. hope i wont be in this to be deteriorated country in years to come.
Paying 112.9 at our local garage for Petrol. Its crazy given I remember when petrol was 49.9 back before I started driving.
I am paying 106.9p per litre (petrol), from my local independent supermarket!
Its outragous! When I first started driving I was only paying 85.9p per litre!!
Tescos Express Petrol Station in Durrington, Worthing, West Sussex was advertising £1.07p a litre for standard unleaded on their shevron sign, but when you park up to fill up, it states that it is £1.10p a litre.
After speaking/complaining with the sales attendant, he said he knew what they had done but it was “the managers idea”
Totally out of order this is