Petrol prices always seem to drop a little bit when my car is always off the road :/
As said it wil never drop dramatically anymore, they will drop it 2p then increase it 4p two weeks later.
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Petrol prices always seem to drop a little bit when my car is always off the road :/
As said it wil never drop dramatically anymore, they will drop it 2p then increase it 4p two weeks later.
the VAT element currently adds around another £0.12p a litre (or 55p per gallon) so you pay our lovely government 70p and you pay the petrol station about 65p on every litre.
when that 3p is added in august thats just duty-dont forget that VAT is charged on that duty so its more like 4p.....
why should they keep raising the duty every 6 months or so when they can see the effect its having on peoples budgets and the wider economy?
must be really painful for people on middle incomes who own gas guzzlers that they cannot sell on and downsize........
too right a tenner barely gets the needle off the bottom of the gauge these days.
But you're boss pays for that via the business so the price is affecting him and could affect you or your collegues in the long run if things don't perk up.
Either way, the government have a country to pay for and the owners of the fuel station have general cash flow to worry about which will always come in.
Just to throw into the mix, we're in a debt crisis bought about by donkeys years of over spending, lining the pockets of public sector workers and community figures and general overspending by everyone, buying new cars every other year, buying holmes they can't afford to pay for or can't affiord to run etc, and that goes for the vast majority of normal people. Then we've all got to pay for those wasters who don't want to work and non-working immigrants etc.
From a purely personal transport POV, an increase in fuel price was inevitable and its probably the right way for the government to increase revenue. We're still in line with most of europe, and like Hobor said, in alot of countries they're earnings are nothing like those of workers in the UK but fuel costs are very similar.
In some respects I think people should sell second cars and tighten they're belts, get out of bed abit earlier and take the kids to school on the bus and so on and not drive about willy nilly.
This is a circular argument. If people dont use thier cars the tax isnt accumulated and the price keeps going up.
What is so called financial crysis is also circular in respect to the cost of living going up due to fuel price increases which then increases the price of everything you buy.
Banks being subsidised by the government due to people getting loans and morgages they were on the limit of affording and now they cannot due to increases in the cost of living.
i think i got my figures wrong......its 80p out of say £1.34p a litre that goes to the government. 58p for the fuel duty and 22p in VAT! so the fuel is 54p!
wot a pee taker....
Agree Dan. Often people don't realise if they take advantage of their company too much they only have themselves to blame for a pay freeze, losing perks or perhaps worse.
I don't think smacking us all with fuel duty is the right way to go about increasing revenue. Ultimately that's only ever going to be a quick "fix" and not solve the real issue which was and still is massive overspending on a gov and personal level. Now adding to the issue (helped in part by the gov indirectly increasing the cost of living for all) we have gone too far the other way. Noone is spending and as long as that continues the economy will never recover. More efficient managing of public funds is whats needed to SAVE billions, not to TAKE billions from our pockets when we need it most.
Agree, its a quick fix for now, but changing the way things work, things happen and how much they cost will take years or even decades.
Its never going to go back to how it was, the sooner people adjust their lifestyles the better.
that is the kind of attitude that means this country is fooked
oh my wages have gone down by 1 hour but theres nothing i can do about
oh fuels gone up by 3p a litre but there nothing i can do about
oh im gonna have to stop having fun but theres nothing i can do about it
bull **** stand up for ur rights grow some balls and tell them its wrong
i have recently lost £80 a week due to being made self employed fair dos they now get less work out of me (and everyone else who i work with was affected) they get the amount of work i feel justifies my wage shite wage,