Fuel prices
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Well if Groove is so upset, maybe he should buy a diesel car and make his own bio diesel, there are plenty of websites explaining what you need to do. Or he could get a LPG conversion for his car, or even just get rid of it.
No one is enjoying paying for fuel, but until they come up with something better we are stuck with it.
In comparison to other products, Petrol/Diesel is very cheap, try running your car on vodka and see how much it costs then.
After all most of the cost we pay is in taxation, so the fuel company have to find it, drill it, ship it, refine it, and transport it to the petrol station, then pump it into your tank.
The current breakdown is something like this. Unleaded £1.33 per litre, so fuel duty is £0.58, VAT is £0.27, Refinery and distribution to the pump £0.43, leaving £0.05 for the Petrol station's costs and profit.
Quite reasonable really.
No one is enjoying paying for fuel, but until they come up with something better we are stuck with it.
In comparison to other products, Petrol/Diesel is very cheap, try running your car on vodka and see how much it costs then.
After all most of the cost we pay is in taxation, so the fuel company have to find it, drill it, ship it, refine it, and transport it to the petrol station, then pump it into your tank.
The current breakdown is something like this. Unleaded £1.33 per litre, so fuel duty is £0.58, VAT is £0.27, Refinery and distribution to the pump £0.43, leaving £0.05 for the Petrol station's costs and profit.
Quite reasonable really.
How is it ever reasonable for Tax to be the largest component price of a product?
I've noticed that Asda whilst still being the cheapest at 132.7p unleaded, has raised its price by 2p per litre this week 1p on Monday & another 1p on Tuesday...purely by coincidence i'm sure, they have started a £5 off promotion in store this week!
Best Regards - Taggy
I've noticed that Asda whilst still being the cheapest at 132.7p unleaded, has raised its price by 2p per litre this week 1p on Monday & another 1p on Tuesday...purely by coincidence i'm sure, they have started a £5 off promotion in store this week!
Best Regards - Taggy
I think you will find this is groove telling another crap joke, he doesn't seem to realise this is the general chat section not the joke section (although the cost of petrol is a joke), I'm sure the moderators will move it to the right section shortly.
Dear Mr Groove, I decided not to admit I had indeed found your post funny, so funny in fact I am still crying with laughter even now.
Taggy mate, I never said the level of taxation was reasonable, simply the cost of petrol is.
Taggy mate, I never said the level of taxation was reasonable, simply the cost of petrol is.
Boeing Guy said:
I take it you're a share holder in a petrol company.
From jaysay's bible:
Oil giants making £84m profit a day despite pain for millions at pump
Read more: Oil prices: BP and Shell making £84m profit a day despite pain for millions at pump | Mail Online
We have a friend who runs his jeep partly on Rapeseed oil -it works OK but you get a smell a bit like a Chippy from the exhaust!
I filled up here yesterday, Diesel now costs 1.580 Euros per litre in Italy -don't know how that is compared to the UK - but 6 yrs ago to fill-up my car cost me around 50 euros and now it's 80 euros!
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1.58 Euros, is currently £1.37, so similar prices then. When I lived in Morocco, petrol was around 10p cheaper per litre, a few weeks ago in Iceland it was the same price as the UK, yet we feel that we are more persecuted than the rest of Europe.
Everyone is feeling the pinch over here -everything is increasing in price.
To be honest, the only thing i can think of which is relatively cheap is the price of flights! Your line of business I think BG...
24 yrs ago to come to the UK, Milan-Manchester with BA cost over £600! It's cheaper with them now - and of course with the low cost airlines the prices are much, much lower! (Milan's "3rd" airport with "you know who" to Liverpool, return 49 euros! Costs more for a taxi or train fare to Accy!
To be honest, the only thing i can think of which is relatively cheap is the price of flights! Your line of business I think BG...
24 yrs ago to come to the UK, Milan-Manchester with BA cost over £600! It's cheaper with them now - and of course with the low cost airlines the prices are much, much lower! (Milan's "3rd" airport with "you know who" to Liverpool, return 49 euros! Costs more for a taxi or train fare to Accy!
True, but as i refuse to fly with that famous Irish airline, you can read into that what you wish, I and they fly the Boeing 737-800 as very very good aircraft. It will be a dark day when I travel with them or even work for them.
Back to fuel costs, everything seems to be getting more expensive.
Back to fuel costs, everything seems to be getting more expensive.
Recently I was contacted by a member on Accyweb to ask if i had played tennis with his cousin back in the early 80's -turned out I did know her. Got out an old Observer cutting with a photo of us on and an article to promote new membership and saw that junior membership back then was £5 -have just been on their website and it's now £49!!
Really puts price rises in perspective...
Really puts price rises in perspective...
Mobertol when I gave over smoking in 1978 fags were 40p a packet, god knows what they are now, oh yes and a pint of Lions Mild was 25p about the same time
Blimey tha must have drunk in some posh gaffs Jaysay, i think i recall paying around 16/17p at that time...although age may have blunted my memory a bit!..I know my first pints were in the Bridge & Commercial in Accy & Dirty Duck in Blackburn in 1974 & it was about 14/15p then!
Heck...seems a lifetime ago..almost is really! Lol!
Best Regards - Taggy
Can remember me and the brother-in-law going in the Coach and Horses every Friday and two pints of Lion Mild were 50p that was 77, in 71 Thwaites Bitter was 9p pint, can remember remarking to the Landlord of the White Bull in New Lane, Ernie Gribble, that we would soon be unable to get 10 pints to the pound
See there has been some pretty bad weather round your neck of the woods - (Cala Finestrat) two British pensioners got swept away and have drowned...looks like the local council may be to blame for paving a ravine! If it's anything like Tenerife when it rains, boy does it rain...