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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Hi everyone, well I am paying about 117.9 for Shell V-Power, I would rather it stayed around the £1 mark, but its only gonna keep increasing! I think we should all stop worrying about petrol prices, and start thinking of ways to make money!
Where is the money going to come from to pay all the pen pushing civil servants?? Tesco pumps!!! Hey all you truckers just keep the wheels rolling and the tax rolling into scumbag Darlings coffers. Over 55 years of age and a lazy retired civil baron well done, 80k in your hand. Thats why your all paying 1.20 ltr.
I don’t have a problem with petrol prices being high. I do however have a problem with being lied to.
Fuel duty and road fund licensing have nothing to do with climate change or any other ecological issue. If the CO2 output of my car is the problem then taxing more powerful cars more isn’t going to resolve the issue. I could own a BMW M3 and only drive a couple of thousand miles a year or i could own a Citroen C1 and drive 40,000 miles a year. I could easily push out more CO2′s from a smaller engined car than a bigger engined one.
If this has anything to do with fuel economy then they should scrap road fund licensing and put all the tax on fuel. But it has nothing to do with that.
LOL at matt! I dont think the people compalaining are those with X5′s and other such large cars, which by the way commonly achieve in excess of 30mpg in diesel form and seat 7 people.
The people complaining are the individuals who purchased cars such as the 2.0 vauxhall Zafira who now pay £440 a year or the larger estate mondeos etc, hrdly gas guzzlers really and certainly were not considered as such when people purchased them lagitimatly several years ago.
PS Matt, i cycle to work, live less than 10miles from my job but people should have a choice!!!
Let’s face it; the rising taxes on the motorist have nothing at all to do with the environment… it’s simply a way for the Labour government to make more money after they’ve spent the last 11 years wasting it.
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Sorry, I cant help being smug about this. Enjoy your petrol, I’ll enjoy my solar array in 2009.
long story Matt many more reasons behind all of this but that’s another website and another story, but if you think that the western world will not be on its knees in years to come then yo are incredibly naive.
i agree petrol is going up and up and slowly we;ll get to a stage where we will start protesting again and believe you me this time will be alot worser big lorrys have had enough and something will be done about it soon!!!
I’ve got to say I’m with Matt on this. I only started driving in 2005 when, if I recall correctly, petrol was about 75p a litre. I now drive a bigger and more powerful car that’s fairly thirsty (20-25mpg on a good day) 40 miles each way for work and have more spare money than I’ve ever had.
Okay so petrol prices have risen considerably over the past 12-18months but pound-for-pound my pay has increased significantly more.
If you don’t like it catch a bus, get a more economical car or get a more local job, simple as that.
With regards to tax why not just buy a car that was registered prior to March 2001 where it’s still at the big engine/small engine rate?
why is it supermarket filling stations charge differntly depending on location, surley this is bought at a corporate level. I have seen two Tesco garages with 3p differnce.