Fuel tax? is it fair??

Question

The Tax man takes a whopping 75% (Duty and then VAT on top of the overall sale = 75%.)

The thing is that now with fuel at today’s £1.10 plus per litre price the garage owners share is still only 3p per litre, so we are now down to less than 3% profit. If that was not tough enough, these day’s people often pay with credit cards so the banks then take between 1 % and 2%commission, this brings our profit down to between1 and 2%! And that’s before we pay rates and electricity bills etc. never mind staff! I don’t know how long we can keep going on these margins, says Jeff.

Answer 1

i know.   right now it's really high.    but think about what the price will be for young kids when they grow up and get to drive cars.  they wont be able to run a vehicle because of the prices being up so high?.

Answer 2

The level of tax the government extracts from motorists is obscene.

You cannot blame the Oil Producing countries, they have a non renewable resource and when they see people like our government just sitting there with their hand out you cannot blame them for wanting a bigger slice of the pie. They make far far less from selling us some of their ever diminishing resource than our government makes from taxing it.