Getting beyond a joke

[kkynaston]

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• kkynaston
• 19 Jun 2008
• 1

£1.34/litre (ok Morissons next door to it is 2p /litre cheaper)
Go 10 miles down the road and its over 5p / litre cheaper

Before the strike it was £1.30, during £1.32 and now £1.34.
4p increase since last Thursday
Whats it like elsewhere?

 

[joe-90]

Never mind. When it is £3.00 per litre you'll hark back to the good old days when it was just £1.34.

 

[kkynaston]

No, I think its time to have a few kids,
complain of a bad back/stress/some thought up condition etc
go on the sick
milk the benefits system
give up the mortgage and get on the housing association
get a motability car
have my bills paid for me
sit in the pub\bookies all day

You can't loose

 

[imamartian]

we need the public to get together for some civil disobedience.... anyone got a wagon full of rubble they don't want? "accidentally" spill it at the entrance and exit to these 'rip-off' garages.... they'll lose 'millions' in the hour it takes to clear it up !!

 

[Bilioustrumpstaine]

I stuck a tenner in today (all the cash I had forgot my cards) and the needle hardly moved

Still I feel better knowing I have paid about £6 of that to the government

Is it 60% duty and vat.

 

[kkynaston]

What are the government doing for the average family?
Well the 2p duty increase is not going ahead in October.
Well done! That's really helped hasn't it?

I can't remember the exact figures but I seem to remember someone said that because of all the extra duty collected they could knock off quite a few pence

 

[joe-90]

They need it for the huge number that are about to become unemployed.

 

[kkynaston]

Yeah, through not being able to afford to get to work

 

[joe-90]

There'll be no work to go to. Firms everywhere are struggling now.

 

[Shytalkz]

There he goes again. Not everybody is struggling; concerned about what's to come, or not, possibly. Big difference.

 

[joe-90]

There he goes again. Not everybody is struggling; concerned about what's to come, or not, possibly. Big difference.

I guess not when you are charging £300 to go to work.

 

[Shytalkz]

Go back to the other thread and tell me just what the f*ck you are on about.

 

[securespark]

Is it 60% duty and vat.

Thought more like 70%?

 

[Spark123]

Using these figures here duty on ULS diesel is 50.35p then theres 17.5% VAT on top. Taking diesel as 133.9p, the VAT is about 19.94p a litre. The other 63.61p goes to the garage + oil company etc.
Total tax is a litre, as a % of cost is approx 52.3%.

ULS Petrol at 119.9p a litre works out as 17.86p a litre VAT, 50.35p duty and 51.69p to the garage + oil company etc.
As a % the tax works out as approx 57%

I'm pretty sure I have messed up the figures somewhere though

 

[seco services]

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• kkynaston
• 19 Jun 2008
• 1

Whats it like elsewhere?

still paying a pound by at the garages here its £1.32