Petrol Prices

This is doing the rounds on Bookface at the moment. Seems like a good plan to me.

Originally posted by John Clegg.

 

Oh not anther "Clegg".
There are far too many of them,

I thought we were buying from the government, bearing in mind they take the biggest share without even moving a finger.

 

Yes, the famous flower part member of the family

 

Seems like something that will never happen to me, so perhaps better to simply

 

While I fully agree that we pay far too much tax on fuel in this country of ours (I think about 70% of the price is made up of various taxes), its not entirely fair to say the government does nowt for it. I believe our navy, air force and coast guard are very active in guarding and protecting our oil pipelines and rigs.

The plan circulating on Bookface makes sense to me. I've shared it on.

I had another idea at the time of the fuel blockades a few years ago. The blockades annoyed me because they delayed me getting home from work and made it harder for me to buy a loaf of bread. At that time, I used a car park for work that if you didn't get in early, you weren't getting in because it quickly filled up. Then I'd have to drive across the city in rush hour to the nearest practical alternative, which would also fill up by 9AM. So the idea struck me that you can bring the country to its knees without stopping anyone getting home or wherever they needed to be. If all the protesters simply got up half an hour early and put their cars in a city centre car park, then everyone would be late for work that day, and businesses always carry more weight than individuals when trying to influence anything.

 

I think it should be a day when every thing stops, the lost of tax will be big, but the worst part will be that everybody will go out a buy things the next day

 

I personally would like to see petrol price lowered.
I do wonder though, how much the oil companies can drop it and still make a profit, bearing in mind the supermarkets are undercutting them most of the time, only by a couple of pence.

I still think its the government who are to blame, meanwhile we run around on third world roads because they spend the money on other things, rather than giving it to local authorities.
How about road tax being collected by the county councils, and a guaranteed percentage of the fuel tax being payed to them also, for road maintenance.

 

Sounds great. Doubt it'll happen though.
I am spending an absolute fortune on fuel and car tax. Cause I don't have a fancy new low emissions car I'm punished with massive road tax while people who do just as much damage to roads in there brand new cars drive for free! Angry!

 

Car tax, just payed£475 for 12 months.

 

See what you mean Shiney, but its not quite like that on facebook, rather than sending it on, people share the post, which makes it visible to all their friends, who in turn can share it to make it visible to a whole different set of friends. Things can very quickly hit the hundreds of thousands views.

I shared it from my mate in Bridport, then Clueless shared it from my page so all his mates can see it and so on.

Clueless's mates know me as "That bloke what speaks foreign & goes on about Badgers."

 

Woah, what car do you have?
My last car was £270 and that was bad enough.
My 2 current cars are £170 and £220. I don't mind paying that, I just think its ridiculous that some cars are free. In fact it's outrageous.
Give me the money to go and buy a brand new low emission car, or a fancy hybrid! Great. But some of us don't have that kind of money.
My main car still returns over 50mpg so it's hardly a gas guzzling environment killer. And the amount of plants in my garden surely make up for the CO2 emission lol!