| $ vs £ vs oil/petrol
Posted: 11/19/2007 4:48:13 AM | Interesting...as the dollar gets weaker, the price will continue upwards.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2212899,00.html | |
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| $ vs £ vs oil/petrol
Posted: 11/20/2007 2:30:23 AM | Well just been back to Sainsbury, and this week they have hiked their prices up to 99.9 a rise of 1p in a matter of days...................at this rate, I can look forward to a price hike every week, until I am broke................... | |
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Posted: 11/20/2007 5:59:27 AM | Hi mike42yorks,
I think you mean "Methanol" for making biodiesel.
Have been a biodiesel homeproducer for a while now - bio is the way forward!
M | |
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| $ vs £ vs oil/petrol
Posted: 11/21/2007 9:44:59 AM | The inverse square law of taxation means that a penny rise per litre will indeed mean a 10 pence increase per litre becuase of tax. And then they add vat on Top! perhaps we need to remind MR Brown about the fuel picketing that so annoyed old Tony.
Back to using alternate fuels. if you use less than 2500 litres of alternative fuel per year then no extra tax needs to be paid.( veggie oil)
Thats why when Tesco were selling corn oil at 49 pence a litre there was none on the shelves- there is now though as they have hiked the price to 89pence a litre still there is always LIDL.
Please note most modern common rail diesels are not suitable for veggie oil unless the oil is treated. most pre 1995 diesel engines will manage it. | |
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| $ vs £ vs oil/petrol
Posted: 5/1/2008 9:52:54 AM |
The other day ALL of the pumps that are used for unleaded in my local garage were out of use, i had to use the high grade petrol that is £1.06 per litre... FOOKIN p1sstake isnt it!!
Well 6 months on from when Foxyisback posted her message the cheapest I can get regular petrol round here is now 106.9p/litre and what can we do about it? Well very little really we are been screwed big style they have us over a barrel and they know it nearly 7% of my wages goes on fuel to just get to and from work. | |
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Posted: 5/1/2008 10:09:50 AM | OK now bear with me on this while I try and explain my logic.
If lets say the tax on unleaded is 70% and the cost is £1.00 then we are paying 70p in tax, right.
But if the tax on unleaded is 70% and the cost is £2.00 then we are paying £1.40p in tax.
So if the price of oil goes up then the government make more and more tax everytime.
With this in mind then why can't they just adjust the percentage of tax they get from the petrol and diesel so they get their constant 70p tax from the first example.
They still make the same ammount of tax that they always have done, and the population would love the goverment for actually "really" doing something to help us all. It's not hard is it???????????? You just have a fluctuating percentage | |
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| $ vs £ vs oil/petrol
Posted: 5/1/2008 10:20:24 AM | I experimented with 15l SVO in a tank full of diesel, that was about 25%. The car ran the same and fuel economy wasn't affected. That was 74p a litre.
The following tank full the oil had gone up to 95p a litre but I still put 30l in to make the mix about 50%. Cold starting was affected a bit, but fuel economy dropped by about 10% so with the increase in price it was hardly worth the hassle.
The price is out of our hands wether it's in $s or £s, and folk will pay no matter what. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 12:05:52 AM | I wondered how long before something happened not like it will make any difference because last time most of us just went scurrying off to find a petrol station that still had fuel.
Refinery protest over fuel prices
About 100 farmers and hauliers have staged a demonstration outside the Stanlow Oil Refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire over rising fuel prices.
Protesters stood at the entrance of the plant and had blocked about 50 lorries from entering by about 2300 BST.
Cheshire police said they were notified just after 2030 BST and officers were called to the scene.
The protesters later moved off the road and vehicles were moving freely in and out of the refinery.
Police said about 40 or 50 protesters remained at the refinery's gates in the early hours of Friday.
The Stanlow plant was at the centre of the fuel protests in 2000 that caused some stations to run out of petrol.
'Massive profits'
One of the hauliers told the BBC: "It's affecting all of us. It's not just hauliers and farmers - although they are being crippled by the costs - it's going to have a knock on effect on everyone - in rising fuel costs and higher prices of food on the shelves in shops."
A protester said hauliers and farmers were being made bankrupt while companies still made a profit.
He said: "People are going out of business left, right and centre and no-one seems to care.
"Oil companies are still announcing massive profits and the government are taking massive amounts of tax - and they want to put another 2p on in October.
"They've got to bring it down it down again. Something must be done or this country's industry will be lost."
Police said the protest was peaceful and no arrests had been made. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 12:13:34 AM | I don't believe that hauliers are going out of business.
If fuel prices are up for one, they're up for all, so there is no difference in their ability to be competetive.
If there are goods there to be hauled and there is a price increase, do you think the factories would decide not to move their products to market?
Nope, they pay the extra to the haulier.
If hauliers are going out of business it's because there are too many of them or the amount of deliveries required has lowered. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 12:20:39 AM | lot of the overseas hauliers fill up on cheap fuel in france and pop over, not pay any road tax for here either...
Recall spain has capped fuel duty, but guess nu labour needs some easy money
as for the green issue and global warming - reports are now going that it will peak in 10 years as it is natural cycle :) | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 4:47:28 AM | The cost of petrol in France is roughly the same as in England, but with the euro getting stronger the cost is possibly more now. I drive til empty then drive for twenty minutes to La Jonquera just over the Spanish border where it's forty cents a litre cheaper. Adds up to a fair old amount on an empty tank.
Nismo is right about standing up for ourselves. Paris tried a congestion charge of sorts by banning odd numbered plates on alternate days to even numbered plates. Result was everybody drove into the city for the hell of it and brought it to an absolute standstill. End of scheme overnight.
And why do people forget that this government have actually frozen the "Accumulator Tax" on fuel that was brought in by a tory government and designed to go up with inflation at every budget? I agree tax on fuel is too high but things could be a lot worse. | |
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