UK fuel duty prices e-petition

[Luke C]

Fair Point

 

[chrizwheatley]

Run a diesel on vegi oil, far cheaper, put a tenner in diesel and fill the tank with bulk cooking oil, they were built to run on it anyways especially the older vehicles, wouldnt recommend it on a top of the range brand spanking new range rover for example, but anything with a old style number plate (i think y reg was the last) bang it in smells a little bit but nothing major

 

[Big Mac]

well from what i have been hearing, its the americans , one in four adults have 2 cars, are a big people carrier, now these swallow juice, also when people my age are older than i know it will be up to about £2 a litre, and with the price of food and tax going up that doesnt help, from what i have learnt in business people are saving up their money and not putting it back into the economy, it wont before long we have inflation and or a major depression, thats what i think anyway

i can assure you the uk tax is nothing to do with americans.

As much as i dislike them (though not as much as the french) i think that comment is a little unfair

 

[Luke W]

I mean, pick one company and boycott them, just buy from the other companies. There must be more than one company in your area.

But don't smaller companies, like Sainsbury's, Tesco's etc get their petrol from the bigger suppliers like Esso and Shell?

 

[chrizwheatley]

The american thing is old news, to be fair yes they drive "gas guzzelers" and yes they pay far less for fuel, once again yes they kicked off with sadam coz he wanted to raise the price of oil and sh!t, but simple fact is the yanks dont change as much tax end of

 

[chrizwheatley]

But don't smaller companies, like Sainsbury's, Tesco's etc get their petrol from the bigger suppliers like Esso and Shell?

Yes they do

 

[MJ]

i only hav a 1.4 so a full tank is about £45 -£50 and it gets me quite a distance easily lincoln and back...used to cost me £20 there and back then prices rose and its about £30 now i think but thats driving economically. i like putting my foot down so i have to pay the petrol

 

[Luke W]

Yes they do

So it's nearly impossible to avoid companies like Shell and Esso...

 

[chrizwheatley]

I think what was ment was that by not directly buying from them they would be forced to goto other sellers and decrease their margins obviously reducing profit so they would have to lower buyer costs to compete, in essence compete with themselves....

 

[Big Mac]

whoever you buy your fuel off the money is going to one of the major companies, monopolies and all that so boycotting wont work unless everyone boycotts driving for a while and we know that wont happen cos in the uk public transport is crap. Trains are stupidly overpriced, £200 return is it at certain times from york to london? something expensive anyway.

And so we wont get to work, we wont earn a wage, the economy collapses, hyperinflation kicks in etc.

Lets face it its never going to happen. We will continue driving for ages, we will complain but nothing can be done, the gov wont reduce tax cos they know we will still be driving whatever and so while we do they earn money. Once they do that and force people onto alternative fuels they will find something else to tax us on.

And oil is stupidly cheap in the whole scheme of things. Us boycotting one particular seller wont change things. They have the rest of the world market as well. I would like to refer to top gear here. A company can get 1litre of oil to you from the expenses of drilling, redrilling where there is oil, building pipelines, refining it, transporting it, shipping it etc and can still do that for about 50p - bargain.

And im sure that only a few weeks ago a barrel of crude oil was at the lowest its been for 35 years.