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Fair Fuel UK.
Did you know that on every litre of petrol you pay 83p in tax?
One firm on the news a couple of nights ago has 15 vans. The cost to run each van has increased by £600 per month. 9 grand a month on fuel on top of all the other costs. This can’t be justified surely.
The Chancellor said last year when he cut a penny off a litre he wanted to help the British economy and that we are all in it together. Not bad to say he has a family fortune of 30 million in the bank. So come on, if we’re all in it together
how many on here have 30 mill in the bank and why are you keeping it so quiet?
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I’m paying almost $4.50 a gallon…this is kiliing me!..
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discussed this the other week elsewhere… we are $8-9 a gallon kgirl
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quote Kgirl:I’m paying almost $4.50 a gallon…this is kiliing me!..Wow…in relative terms that’s virtually free fuel.
3.785 litres per US gallon
we are £1.39 here for petrol – £5.21 or $8.20 US for a US gallon.
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Fuel costs are killing me, cant pass it on to the customers I work for as they would go else were to have there work done, (there is always someone cheaper) I run one van, and I have seen my fuel cost for one week hit just under £1k, Okay a lot of miles and some money in the process, but lining the Governments pockets every time you drive,work,eat,,,,,,,,,its beyond a joke.
My mate own a good few recovery trucks and averages 5 miles to the gallon, so when im down I think of his vat/tax bill poor sod -
Well at 10 million quid a day being given to Brussels you can see where it’s going. All these services being cut back all over the UK but more money in the government coffers. £140 a month council tax and now the bins only get emptied once a fortnight. 😕
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quote Karl Williams:£140 a month council tax and now the bins only get emptied once a fortnight. 😕the Council can’t afford the fuel 🙄
Fuel costs are hurting me……..
john
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I run the car on LPG but this week that has jumped 5p p/l
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Surprised you didn’t know about it before Karl, it’s not like it’s something new. Makes me laugh when people moan about the petrol companies raising the price of fuel & never mention the fact that the Government have been raking it in for years.
Unfortunately I don’t really have a choice, I either pay what they ask or confine myself to the flat. Without the car I simply can’t get out & about at all.
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quote Martin:Surprised you didn’t know about it before Karl, it’s not like it’s something new. Makes me laugh when people moan about the petrol companies raising the price of fuel & never mention the fact that the Government have been raking it in for years.
Unfortunately I don’t really have a choice, I either pay what they ask or confine myself to the flat. Without the car I simply can’t get out & about at all.
Every conversation I have with people regarding the cost of fuel, Whether I bring it up or they do Martin both those points are raised Martin.
And no mate, you don’t have a choice but if it went up to lets say £10 a gallon or more I’d suspect you’d have no choice but to stay in. No matter what income anyone has the fuel rises are hurting everyone. -
To fill my passatt i’m clocking up £80+
It wouldn’t take much in the way of increase to make that a £100 to fill my tank!!! -
I put £40 in my merc earlier. Didn’t even reach half way.
I can remember the days when a fiver would get me from Nottingham to
Skegness. It was 42p a litre then. -
Karl, on my income I would be staying in most of the time well before prices reached £10 a gallon.
It already costs me over £100 to fill the tank & I don’t drive a fancy high performance motor.
I have also considered getting rid of my car & buying a smaller more economical one but that then causes problems of it’s own. The car I currently drive is pretty good for my needs, driving a Fiat Ulysses which has enough seats for what I need & also doubles as a van for work when I take the seats out. Plus it’s big enough to get all my fishing gear in :lol1: :lol1:My card allows me to take £99 worth of fuel when I use the pay at the pump machines, when I first started using them to fill up I didn’t think I would ever reach that limit, how wrong I was 😥
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Martin – How many times have I told you to go and spend some of the millions you’ve got stuffed under your mattress?….You can’t take it with you you know 😕
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🙄 Simples!
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Don’t you have to pay a "methane" Tax on the Donkey? 😕
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quote Phill Fenton:Don’t you have to pay a “methane” Tax on the Donkey? 😕
…..and so does the Ass! 😀
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quote Harry Cleary:🙄 Simples!
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Martin, I drive a Mercedes A140. The back seats are removed permanently (if a 3rd person wants to get in, then they install the seat(s), lol.
The back of the car is huge. We were using the Lexus with the seats down in 2010 to carry the cash & carry shopping for the pub, last year we used the A class, with loads more space, and easier to load.
Maximum fill, today, £70. Still far too much, I know, but far less than many other vehicles. MPH is really good. -
Lorraine the difference is that the seats in my car are designed to be removed. Only takes a couple of minutes to remove or fit the 2nd & 3rd row seats. They just clip in to fittings in the floor.
No front passenger seat at all. Took the old one out & was going to replace it with another seat until I realised I could get 8×4 boards in the car with the seat removed.I wish Phill 😥 Anyway, I had to eat the mattress last week because I had no money for food after buying petrol :lol1: :lol1:
Was going to pop in last week when I was passing your way but then remembered you had moved & I couldn’t remember where to 😳
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filled my vivaro yesterday, 80ltr / £115.04, that’ll do me about 550 miles of regular driving or 620 if really lean on the gas!
ok, so it’s all tax deductable but it still hurts!
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quote Martin:Was going to pop in last week when I was passing your way but then remembered you had moved & I couldn’t remember where to 😳
It worked Phill! The jaffa cakes are safe! 😀
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