Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
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I simply don't look at the price, fill up, pay without looking and walk out and I'm happy as dandy because I haven't caused myself the stress of seeing how much I spent 
A tank lasts me 4 days if I'm lucky, and that's on a 1.1 Fez that gets about 450 out of a tank.
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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Originally posted by Graham88
I simply don't look at the price, fill up, pay without looking and walk out and I'm happy as dandy because I haven't caused myself the stress of seeing how much I spent
A tank lasts me 4 days if I'm lucky, and that's on a 1.1 Fez that gets about 450 out of a tank.
Aye, like I said, the difference between a 105.9p/litre and 108.9p/litre fill up was 90p or something.
I don't see the problem because prices have always been high for me. The problem is with people that are middleaged, and used to get it much much lower. Or even mid-20's (year old).
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random dav
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Originally posted by Mattb
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Originally posted by mattk
yeah cause thats a perfect solution
I guess you dont drink or smoke?
Why would that make any difference?? Smoking costs the NHS millions every year and binge drinking costs society god knows what! Its only because the government knows people have to buy fuel that the duty is so high in it, that and the fact the world is banging on about global warming and the government wants to price people off the road. Now they are moaning about people going out getting lashed up and causing trouble on so called 'binges' so it would seem like a rational thing to do..
What would you rather? Be able to drive places like work etc on fuel that cost less that a £1 a litre, or go and get pissed up, not remember a thing, maybe get into a fight on shite that probably costs around £1 a litre aswell?
Its only my 2p
oh, and i dont smoke, but i do drink
smoking costs the NHS around 3 billion per year, but smokers raise 6 billion per year in tax, so therefore a 3 billion surplus.
if people want to save money charge isiots for missing hospital, doctors, clinic appointments, etc
WRLFC !
Project cars
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Graham88
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Originally posted by deano87
I don't see the problem because prices have always been high for me. The problem is with people that are middleaged, and used to get it much much lower. Or even mid-20's (year old).
Don't know about that, I remember when I had my ped when I was 16 (3 years ago) and it cost £3 to fill it. A year later and it was costing me £5. 
[Edited on 29-02-2008 by Graham88]
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
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Its the staggering amount of tax that pisses me off, and the HUGE profits oil companys make, Greed is the single biggest thing that pisses me off
Its all greed
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
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£2.70 used to fill my scooter up,
wonder how much it would be now
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Graham88
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Originally posted by mattk
£2.70 used to fill my scooter up,
wonder how much it would be now
£3 and I got 120 miles out of it, oh those were the days of having to plan a day ahead to get anywhere 
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deano87
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Originally posted by mattk
Its the staggering amount of tax that pisses me off, and the HUGE profits oil companys make, Greed is the single biggest thing that pisses me off
Its all greed
Isn't the profits largely due to extortionate prices they charge on non-fuel goods?
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mattk
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yeah mostly, if they make so much off the shity they sell thaey can knock a bit off the price of fuel,
Its mainly tax thats the issue
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K 5ive
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Registered: 30th Jan 07
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Originally posted by mattk
£2.70 used to fill my scooter up,
wonder how much it would be now
It used to cost me £1 exactly to fill my ped up! That would last a week.
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ChrisBoom
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Registered: 6th Dec 06
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Originally posted by ChrisBoom
£1.14 for diesel, gay.
£1.15 now.
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mattk
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£1.05
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Bullet Proof SRi
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TBH i think this whole countries goverment ethics are a load of bullshit.
Poeple coming in from another country must think we are loaded when they see how much we pay for things.
Look at fuel prices, house prices, even food prices in supermarkets has shot up.
This country needs to put tis own people first and stop shelling out for others as we always do.
Soon we will all be in debt, and have to borrow if we have anychance of a life, and then spend the rest of our life paying it off.
If i had the chance and the money to migrate i would.
Im sick of this bullshit place
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Bullet Proof SRi
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Thanks for reading my weekly rant
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Carl
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The thing is the petrol companies may as well keep putting prices up, if they don't then the government will only do it. If the prices are already higher than this will cause a bigger uproar if more tax is added.
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Colin
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Originally posted by mattk
Its the staggering amount of tax that pisses me off, and the HUGE profits oil companys make, Greed is the single biggest thing that pisses me off
Its all greed
To be fair oil companies can just about justify the huge profits they make, oil exploration costs them billions in operational costs every year, for one single installation your talking milions, they can spend millions carrying out surveys, open a well & find it to shortfall on productivity loosing them millions, over 80% of the money shell/bp turn out goes towards running the show not a huge profit on the grand scale, without them you wouldnt be able to run a car at all, I think the huge profits are pretty sizeable for the scale of operation they run.
Government on the other hand take 65p from ever £1 of fuel sold in this country in tax & dont really have any involvement asides taking the backhander & no one can see where its going, certainly not into improving the roads network.
Traffic lights, streetlights, roads etc as mentioned above by someone comes off a budget levied from the council tax we pay....apparently. Where does all the billions from our fuel tax go
[Edited on 04-03-2008 by Colin]
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Wrighty
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quote:
Originally posted by K 5ive
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Originally posted by mattk
£2.70 used to fill my scooter up,
wonder how much it would be now
It used to cost me £1 exactly to fill my ped up! That would last a week.
Isnt there a minimum delivery? 
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K 5ive
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Registered: 30th Jan 07
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Originally posted by Wrighty
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Originally posted by K 5ive
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Originally posted by mattk
£2.70 used to fill my scooter up,
wonder how much it would be now
It used to cost me £1 exactly to fill my ped up! That would last a week.
Isnt there a minimum delivery?
What in 1988? If i wanted, i used to put 50p in!
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Wrighty
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smooth
we need a time warp machine
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K 5ive
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Originally posted by Wrighty
smooth
we need a time warp machine
We do indeed! 4 years later i was filling up my MK2 1600 Cavalier Club for £25! This would last me the weekend for cruising and blatting!
We didn't have that much money either and thought nothing of regularly putting this amount in. So compared to now i think it was much cheaper. Wages have not caught up with the rise in fuel.
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