The petrol situation is getting out of control, so when will it stop and when will gordon brown say lets sort this out instead of blaming it on everyone else. When is he going to slash the tax on petrol. This petrol crises is affecting the householder as well as jobs with more and more companies having to make people redundant.

Haha. Still cheap as always here

You dont even have to pay for your fuel.. in fact you dont even drive voldies

It will stop once cars stop using petrol.

Taxes might get slashed but prices will still rise.

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You dont even have to pay for your fuel.. in fact you dont even drive voldies

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You can fill your tank with less than a dollar in Venezuela. Too bad I only vacation here, and live in Florida, where the price is $4.00 per gallon

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You can fill your tank with less than a dollar in Venezuela. Too bad I only vacation here, and live in Florida, where the price is $4.00 per gallon

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Too bad I only vacation

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Petrol Prices when will it stop

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I'm glad I don't drive yet I wouldn't like to pay all that money for Petrol.

Bah.

Hydrogen/Electric cars plz

What country are you from? In the US people went mad when it went up to 40 cent per litre. Here is is around £1.10 a litre and that's about $2.20.

You can't lower duty when the economy is suffering, the government will just make the tax back in another way.

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Here is is around £1.10

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You can't lower duty when the economy is suffering

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In Sydney petrol has reached an average of about $1.60 per litre, they are predicating $2 per litre by the end of the year…

I used to be able to fill my little 4 cylinder Honda Civic with $30 about a year ago now $50 doesn’t fill the tank…

@ absortion: 1.10 pounds per litre, wow that’s expensive, although I think the average wage in England is a lot higher than here, still though that’s harsh…

BTW, where the hell is the little pound symbol on my keyboard

Abs, you do live round some cheap petrol stations, round here its £1.20/30 for petrol and £1.40/50 for diesel, and there's a strike atm for diesel, no diesel anywhere

Let's invest in a MsgPlus Oil Refinery to provide cheap petrol for MsgPlus users!

its £129.9 at a garage near me. i heard its going up an average of 0.5p a day =/

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its £129.9 at a garage near me. i heard its going up an average of 0.5p a day =/

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ugh. i mean 129.9p or £1.29

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You can fill your tank with less than a dollar in Venezuela.

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In Sydney petrol has reached an average of about $1.60 per litre, they are predicating $2 per litre by the end of the year…

I used to be able to fill my little 4 cylinder Honda Civic with $30 about a year ago now $50 doesn’t fill the tank…

@ absortion: 1.10 pounds per litre, wow that’s expensive, although I think the average wage in England is a lot higher than here, still though that’s harsh…

BTW, where the hell is the little pound symbol on my keyboard

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the bit that annoys me is the fact that (in the UK) they charge VAT ontop of the tax on fuel. wtf.

on a side note, anyone else noticed that the guy who made this thread is advertising in his signature?

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the bit that annoys me is the fact that (in the UK) they charge VAT ontop of the tax on fuel. wtf.

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The UK VAT rules are really annoying.
Why is our VAT so high compared to others.
Grrr

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You can fill your tank with less than a dollar in Venezuela. Too bad I only vacation here, and live in Florida, where the price is $4.00 per gallon

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I paid 117.9 this morning for a litre

Funny to think only a year ago I was paying 99p a litre.

And there was me thinking we went to war for oil...

It's not a horrible country, it's just a horrible president. I love Venezuela.. and I'll probably come back to live here in the future.

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It's not a horrible country, it's just a horrible president. I love Venezuela.. and I'll probably come back to live here in the future.

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I think it's $1.34/L CAD right now...I remember one year in the summer...prices went up $.10 a day for a week...

Hurry up and buy your hybrids.

$1.45 CAD / L at the moment here

7.45 (Mexican pesos / liter) = 2.72379608 U.S. dollars / US gallon

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The UK VAT rules are really annoying.
Why is our VAT so high compared to others.
Grrr

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The UK VAT rules are really annoying.
Why is our VAT so high compared to others.
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It's no better here, so the only motor vehicle I own is a scooter.
But hey, maybe we should learn to appreciate high gas prices. It decreases traffic congestion and hopefully forces people who don't really need to drive every day to use public transportation, pleasing Al Gore and polar bears.

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gordon brown

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    quoteriginally posted by in2town
    gordon brown


Who?

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he suckcs btwtt. a very pooror PM n my opinion.

Well, in the garage that I work at our prices are 1.18 GBP for unleaded and 1.32 GBP for diesel...and so far one station near us has nothing left and other one's are rationing already. The abuse that I've taken so far because of it, and it's not for the want of my boss trying to keep the prices down (the air goes blue when's arranging a delivery). And the problem is that as well as hitting motorists, it's hitting the independent retailers too (I believe my boss only make 2p a litre sold maybe less now). Oh bring back the days when petrol was 73p a litre (yes I believe it was around that in 2004)

And to be honest, Gordon Brown's been left cleaning up Tony Blair's mess and he's trying his best but everyone just wants to knock him back.....so he's scottish and so am I and I'm defending him....sue me

I paid £1.149 for petrol last night, was quite chuffed.

I believe the petrol tax on petrol is 54.9p atm, and you pay VAT at 17.5% on the actual petrol itself.

On the other hand, we are only looking at at 30% increase over the past two years because of it. I believe in parts of the states it's gone up 50%-100%.

Of course, the prices of a barrel of oil is skyrocketing at the moment. I remember around this time last year people were making fun of a trader on the stock market for buying a it at $100/barrel. It's approaching $140/barrel now.

Our's was 1.14 GBP until yesterday until it went up. But I have it on good authority that at least in scotland, by the middle of the summer we'll be at 1.50 GBP a litre and by winter 2.00 GBP

As for the strikes that are happening at the moment, well, I think people are definitely filling up more than usual, but no panic buying as such (I associate panic buying with queues and rationing) not that I need to worry. Nurse etc get first call on the petrol at my station

just a side note on the topic.

most people complain about the price of petrol (myself included) but its actually really cheap tbh. think of how much work goes into getting the oil in the first place (first finding it, then building rigs to extract it, can't be cheap, especially when doing it at sea), then converting it into petrol, then delivering it to stations, and so on.
and its £1.30 or so a litre. thats cheaper then a pint of beer from a pub, which has F all costs compared to petrol. its nearly cheaper then a litre of milk from a supermarket, and how much cost can there be in keeping a cow.

granted its a bitch, since only a few years ago it was like 80p a litre. but at the end of the day, its still relativity cheap

and yet the oil companies are reporting record profits.....

Edit: just saw this today =p

Just calculated that the price is 8,88 dollars per gallon here (approx 1,53e per liter). When I fuel my car I usually pay around 70e.

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just a side note on the topic.

most people complain about the price of petrol (myself included) but its actually really cheap tbh. think of how much work goes into getting the oil in the first place (first finding it, then building rigs to extract it, can't be cheap, especially when doing it at sea), then converting it into petrol, then delivering it to stations, and so on.
and its £1.30 or so a litre. thats cheaper then a pint of beer from a pub, which has F all costs compared to petrol. its nearly cheaper then a litre of milk from a supermarket, and how much cost can there be in keeping a cow.

granted its a bitch, since only a few years ago it was like 80p a litre. but at the end of the day, its still relativity cheap

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and yet the oil companies are reporting record profits.....

Edit: just saw this today =p

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and yet the oil companies are reporting record profits.....

Edit: just saw this today =p

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from what ive seen in the news/papers etc. its only affecting like 700 at the most stations out of around 800? someone correct me if im wrong with that, my memory is shite, but its not that bad....yet. ill be damned if it goes back down below $100 a barrel.

Most stations have petrol, it's just effecting certain regions more than others. People panic buy and create a problem where there is none.

What you'll probably find is that it's the area's furthest away from depot that are struggling (and maybe rural areas). City wise....when one is shut, you simply head to the next one and so on and so forth