Mattb
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Registered: 2nd Feb 03
Location: Under your sisters bed
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Originally posted by Pablo
THIS IS A FCUKING JOKE
So much so i've had to take the senator off the road... £10 and 30 odd miles is a Farce!!
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SJW
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Registered: 8th Jul 05
Location: Malvern
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the tax system on petrol is crap, its not flexible, just a set amount on top of the price of the oil, it should be variable, ie so much % tax per litre of oil
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
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Originally posted by Cybermonkey
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Originally posted by John
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Originally posted by robmarriott
moaning about it doesnt help though, you have a car, you need petrol, end of.
the oil companies know that and they can charge however much they want
Its the tax.
Even if the oil company put the prices up a couple of pence there's still about 70p tax ontop of that.
A couple of p when theres a crisis or something woudln't be a problem if we weren't already paying so much.
And I wish someone would tell me why diesel costs more.
diesel costs more because the process of extracting it from crude oil is more costly in refineries.
& i dont see how reducing the tax is going to help, that money has to come from somewhere, you will just end up paying higher taxes elsewhere
Naile, meet head  Exactamundo!!
AFAIK Diesel is taxed more because of the higher damage to the environment, its the same with Benefitrs in kind on diesle company cars 
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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Originally posted by SJW
the tax system on petrol is crap, its not flexible, just a set amount on top of the price of the oil, it should be variable, ie so much % tax per litre of oil
How would that work... it would almost certianly be more expensive then!
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SVM 286
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Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
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Originally posted by Mattb
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Originally posted by Pablo
THIS IS A FCUKING JOKE
So much so i've had to take the senator off the road... £10 and 30 odd miles is a Farce!!
I get the same in my old Mercedes  but have no other choice and have to lump it. 182 miles out of just over fifty six quid is no joke, especially when approx 88% of that money is taken in revenue.
In some parts of the U.S. a gallon of petrol is still not much more than a litre over here.
No wonder realy when you consider that when originally drilling oil out of the ground, the yanks were left with a nasty watery and highly combustable by-product that they had trouble disposing of, that after a little refining, has come to be known as gasoline
[Edited on 06-09-2005 by SVM 286]
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