Petrol Up..diesel Up

Merlin the Magician

Merlin the Magician

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:suspect: If you missed it, today being the 1st Oct.. more stealth taxes have been added....when our Gordon was chancellor he decreed that on this date PETROL&DIESEL will rise 2p per litre! Another hatchet blow to the hard hit motorist Or what?

This will obviously affect the cost of living across the whole spectrum, increased travel fares, rise in food prices etc etc
I had forgot about it and failed to tank up yesterday................... :angy:
 
What's stealth about it?

London bus fares are coming down by 10% from today, btw.

Another hatchet blow to the hard hit motorist
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Boo hoo. Stop driving over-specified, over-sized and inefficient vehicles then.
 
We were given advance notice about today's rise. It's another £1.70-odd per week to me, which I could have done without, but the really annoying thing is that it is on top of the 3p rise the petrol companies bumped on to a litre last week.

Don't forget to sign up to that website that regularly emails you the prices in the three petrol stations nearest your postcode. The day my local place (usually the cheapest) put it up 3p last week there was another that hadn't changed and I filled up there. They put up their prices the next day but only by 1p.
 
Morrisons prices are the same until friday so i filled up today, i've only got a tiny car but the increase will still hit me. My cars desperatly needed as i live in a village miles away from anywhere, which doesn't really do buses. To get to work i'l have to take 3 different buses, which don't fit in with my shifts, or make it possible to pick up or drop of my girl at school. The same is true of most places outsdie London.

I'm probably right in thinking its not going to make anyone cut down on using their cars(tree huggers seemed happy that it would on the news?), just cost people more money.
 
Cheer up Love Everlasting, it is not like they are just going to pour the money in to a badly run NHS or some other bureaucratic, inefficent publicly administered service [sic].
 
I'm probably right in thinking its not going to make anyone cut down on using their cars(tree huggers seemed happy that it would on the news?), just cost people more money.
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In the short term it won't, and this increase is probably too small, but rising fuel prices have already made people more cost aware and eventually it will start affecting peoples behaviour.

Fuel efficiency in the bigger cars will become a decision factor. I suspect within the next ten years there will a very high take up on sun trap roof panels and such like for heating water.

I reckon it is only a matter of time (albeit a long time) before car tax and excise duties are abolished here in Ireland in favour of a massive tax hike on fuel. Everyone will be able to own a magnificent vehicle, but only the priveledged few will be able to use them. It makes such obvious sense, but will cause a fair amount of grief at the cut-off point.
 
:eek: What amazes me is that companies have big cars (gas guzzlers) to present an image to potential customers! Etc

Then through the tax system they can claim the on costs back because it’s part of the business...

How is this a penalty?????


So at the end of the day these large haulage companies are going to pass on the rise to you & me through rises in the food chain or commodities they carry which are 99% of most goods sold in the shops...

So it reflects that it’s the man/women on the street who is going to bare the rise in fuel prices, unable to claim it back for social and domestic purposes, hence fuel cost will hit them from all corners, domestically and in their bills for anything they choose to purchase including essential things i.e. gas, electricity, + food.......
 
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