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Originally Posted by Neil
I believe that we are all victims of price fixes by the oil giants and OPEC.
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I have one word for that comment, but it would probably be censored.
We are all victims of the huge amounts of duty that we are forced to pay whenever we put some petrol in the car.
A few years ago, for every £10 spent on petrol, some £8.50 was duty. That means that (assuming the proportions have stayed the same, which I very much doubt) when I spend £50 to fill my car up, £7.50 is the actual cost of the fuel; the remaining £42.50 is tax.
The government gets a hell of a lot of £8.50s from us, and what do they do with it? They use it to look after people who want to blast us from the face of the earth, because if they deport them they run the risk of being tortured or sentenced to death.
Hmmmm....