Diesel £1.17 a litre. thats £5.31 a gallon! What's going on?

Question

While the greenies may be smug that they think this cost will drive people off the road. Show me an example of where this has happened. There are more cars on the road now than 15 years ago. So that argument is rubbish. Offering the alternative of public transport, thats a laugh, a 2.5 mile journey by bus £3.29. Nearest main line railway station is 27 miles away.

I've lagged my house, and the oil has just cost me over £450 for 1000 litres. So when that runs out, my family can freeze. Thanks Messrs Blair/Brown/Darling, bunch of pocket lining ar*e bandits.

The time isn't far off when this country will hit its tilting point. Those that can afford to leave, will. And those that can't will suffer more.

I don't blame the oil companies. Just HM Gov. Thank God, I've already starting looking for jobs and property abroad.

How can the public start a vote of no-confidence in the Government?

Answer 1

Totally agree with you there Mike.  Filled up my car the other day, and nearly Sh.it myself at the price.  Cost me over £63.00 to fill it up.

Took a train to London the other day, ticket cost me £93.00, parking was £10.00 at the local station, and I had to bloody stand on the train, as it was full.... what a bloody joke.

Answer 2

Britain is all but knackered now really. It's standing room only on the ferries by now I should think. I'm on a 5 year plan for vacating the place myself. Had enough! If I'm doomed to be poor, at least I can do it in a nice climate!

Answer 3

The new diesels are cleaner and greener than the modern petrol engines,the goverment stopped the switch to diesel with massive tax impositions.Diesel costs less to produce but has much more unecessary tax on it than petrol,but as long as you are stupid enough to pay 16 pounds per gallon for watered down beer and lager,they will continue to stuff you all.The tanker drivers,truck drivers and farmers, had the bottle to do it,but the rest of the wimps in Britain, stabbed them in the back, by not supporting them,so you all deserve what you got.IF YOU WANT SOMETHING,FIGHT OR VOTE FOR IT,LYING DOWN JUST GETS YOU SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.You only have a relatively limited supply of fuel left,the next 5 years should see marked changes and surprises,why do you think the motor companies are now ,at this late date,trying to rush alternative fuel propulsion systems in ?

Answer 4

if you take all the tax off of petrol/diesel it would only cost you around 2p per ltr so yes it is the money grabbing b*stards we call government !!!

im concidering moving to Perth next year as me and my partner cnt afford to live here anymore we cnt even get a mortgage !!

Answer 5

If your going abroad,don't go to the USA.It's no better here!!!

Answer 6

Seems like you are moaning, just like a lot of the other answerers.

Don't worry, i regularly get thumbs down for my answers on this topic here so am expecting them

People in the UK continually moan about the price of fuel. I know its expensive, but if you are going to complain do it logically, with your vote, stand yourself, or stop using the stuff.

Look at any out-of-town factory outlet discount centre at the weekend. They are brim-full of people in cars who would all moan about the price of fuel if you asked them.

If people really cannot afford petrol, they would cut back on thier journies or modify thier driving style to save fuel. They down, they just tonk it down to Chav-city to buy the latest fake designer gear.

Bluewater, Trafford Centre, Cheshite Oaks...they are all jam-apcked with people making unnecessary journies who also complain they cannot afford petrol.

Petrol and diesel are not a god-given right. When people cannot drive to work, when the shop carparks are empty, THEN we can can say people cannot afford petrol.

Until then, i'm sorry but it just seems like a moan.

You are leaving the UK, good for you. I hope you find what you are looking for and wish you well. But as you've seen in the answers here, people around you will moan about the price of petrol where ever you are. Once you settle into the USA, you will soon forget its half the price and start moaning with them.

Answer 7

Well said

Answer 8

Going to France next week, sadly coming back in August. One day for good I hope. Deisel there is 1.27 euro/ltr so its about £4.50 a gallon

I agree Politicians are arses and should all be put in a sack and shot

Answer 9

Firstly, even in countries where fuel is far cheaper (eg USA), people are complaining it is far too expensive. People all ov Europe are saying the same thing, and there is no longer a massive difference between UK and European prices (from my own regular experience, add in motorway tolls, and France can be far more expensive than here)

The problem for the UK is that at every election since 1979 people consistantly voted for lower DIRECT taxation. Thatcher shifted the burden to indirect VAT and excise duties, and there they have stayed. Do you want to pay it on fuel, or from your wages? Either way, it has to be paid. Remember also it was a TORY chancellor who introduced the "fuel tax escalator" of annual above inflation duty rises on fuel.

It also doesn't help that there are not enormous oil reserves here, at least not ones we can draw fast enough to be self sufficient, so the price is something we can't do much about. Oil companies don't set the prices, the world markets do, with a little influence from the OPEC cartel, who control supply to their own advantage. Oil is fast running out, and will get more expensive.

But where next? Can we cut the tax? NO. If we cut the duty on fuel today, what would happen? The oil companies would remember how much we were prepared to pay and add the tax cut back on as profit. Instead of being spent on schools and hospitals, it would go on sheiks palaces and playthings of African dictators.

PS if you move to another EU state, remember many of them, particularly France and Holland are notoriously high tax economies, more so than the UK.

Answer 10

Having already moved abroad, whilst UK diesel is topping out at £1.20 or so a litre, our diesel has doubled in recent years to 1.20 euros which at the present exchange rate is not far off £1 a litre so we are all caught up in the price hike.  No it wont drive me off the road but I do sometimes cruise a tad slower than normal to get over 60 mpg instead of the 45 with boot down.  Tis not only the UK suffering but at least you lot have the higher salaries to pay for such expensive fuel.

Answer 11

Agreed, petrol and diesel are getting so expensive I wnt be able to drive any form of transport before too long. My husband and I both ve small engines to try and save money and it is still stupid.  I understand what you are saying about public transport being useless if you live outta town where I do you are knackered as the services are very few and far between. No vote with you there

Answer 12

i knoow its crazy.................

the goverment is robbing everyone.....

we're all gonna be poor..........boooooooo ;)

Answer 13

I agree totally, I drive over 1000 miles a week for my job and its killing my finances.  They should give people a tax break that have to drive for work/personal reasons.  I live in N Yorks and many of the towns are miles away from train stations and supermarkets/Post office/Bank etc and the buses (sometimes) comes bi-hourly!  These k*ob Jockeys need to try living in the real world for a few months without a car.  Its OK if in a city centre where there is better public transport infrastructure, but what about us country bumpkins that don't have that choice.........

Answer 14

the government are money grabbing shysters that spend loads of money playing war , its all very good and well moaning about this and that but unless the people of britain grow a backbone were going to  get trampled on time and time again , the trouble is people want to do something but when it comes to action theres always an excuse .

Answer 15

I totally agree.

Luckily I've escaped England and the god awful government, the country's going down fast.

Answer 16

jed is actually right

whilst the general public were behind the idea of the blockades and boycotts

i have a distinct memory of lots of people filling thier cars to the brim  because there was a blockade