fuel protests planned in london

charliehelyes · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2005 Posts: 105

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1316645,00.html
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dukey · Fission Joined: Feb 20, 2005 Posts: 2023

diesel is like £1.30 here where i live
nearly 10/gallon

idomar · Last edited by idomar on Wed May 21, 2008 7:55 am; edited 1 time in total

this will be another non-event, just like the one a couple of weeks ago.

a load of fat guys sitting in their trucks, burning diesel blaring their horns, saying

"something has gotta be done, i mean, its just too expensive"

"blah blah government blah tax blah foreigners blah loss of jobs"

followed by the endless soundbites of moronic motorists who all 'need' thier cars for some reason.

" i NEED my car because i live in Glasgow and commute to London on a a daily basis and its really hitting me hard"

"I am disabled (usually on the sick, not really disabled, stress is not a disability) i NEED my car to go to the shops"

My favourite new piece of legislation related to this is the ability for police to seize cars that are uninsured and crush them, which will be the first thing to go once fuel prices really kick in.

there are going to be many bewildered people in the next few years in the UK, to quote Lock Stock, "with that 'what's going on 'ere' look all over your Chevy Chase"

allmeyer

Why are gas prices so much higher in the UK?

idomar

charliehelyes · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2005 Posts: 105

80% of the fuel price is taxes which may help the uk in times of a crises removing the taxes from fuel will alow the price to rise 5 times and still be the same price as it was before. However this will lead to massive deficit in goverment income, leading to a reduction in public services free healthcare might have to be removed or something as drastic to compensate.

dorlomin · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 05, 2007 Posts: 1061

Fuel tax is one of the few bright spots of UK PO prepairedness. Our petrol prices have only gone up from about 90p to about 110p in the past year. We have been so used to high prices that its not really hurting all that much. That and projects like the Nottingham and Sheffield tram lines, the to be built CrossRiver tram from Camden to Brixton and the CrossRail are reall bright spots on an otherwise very gloomy picutre of lack of prepairedness.

Kudos to all those money grubbing chancellors and there sin tax on petrol.

Byron100

What the truck drivers really need to do is to go on strike for about 30 days, and have the whole nation go hungry. And people who think driving is too expensive, they need to go on strike too, and see how well their employers get along without them.

The good folks of the UK really need to overthrow their idiotic government and start all over again, to tell you the truth. The sooner this happens, the sooner good ol' England will become the "green and pleasant land" it's meant to be...
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dukey · Fission Joined: Feb 20, 2005 Posts: 2023

in the UK something like 50% of the cost of fuel is tax
possibly more

Eli

You guys in the Uk should join the Us in suing OPEC to force them to produce more oil.

And if that does not work I think we should sue the earth for not giving us more oil.

Twilight · Expert Joined: Mar 02, 2007 Posts: 2971 Location: UK

If a litre of petrol cost 107.9p, it would be split in the following way...

Tax makes up 66.4p of the cost, or around $4.95 per gallon.

What people need to understand is that as energy prices rise, so does the cost of government, just like any other economic activity. If they sincerely want a reduced cost of motoring for themselves, they must campaign for small government also. Perhaps they would like no more debt taken on to bail out future bank failures? Perhaps they would like tax credits to be removed? Perhaps they would like welfare to be cut into commodity inflation? What would they choose to sacrifice, and how much risk would they like to run that the call would be made upon them and not another?

Answers on a placard.
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energycity · Heavy Crude Joined: Apr 22, 2008 Posts: 124