Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

more here: http://www.petrolprices.com/blog/dut...weeks-110.html

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

I've edited your original post to include the link to the article where Gordon makes his pledge, and to include quote tags so it's obvious that you're quoting from another source :tu:


This has all rather crept up out of nowhere, I'm not entirely sure how the PM has managed to sneak this increase in - I can't recall seeing it publicised anywhere, did I miss it first time around?

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

Someone has to pay for the Bank bailouts. Guess it has to be Joe Motorist again. :rolleyes:

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

Certainly looks that way.....

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

Plus in December VAT is going back to 17.5% =(

Sorry, thanks

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

Sadly the magnitude of this government's economic ineptitude and negligence has guaranteed that we're all going to be paying for the financial bubble for generations - 2p on a litre of fuel is nothing compared to what's ahead for all taxpayers.

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

well the country's on its knees - motor industry crippled -unemployment soaring,banks still aren't working-- maybe we weren't supposed to notice this tax hike amongst all our other woes .

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

No worries, just easier for everybody to see what's what this way :)

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

Is it balls! Its a recession, it happens! Its global and will end as quickly as it happened.

Bored with all this 'the end is coming' stuff

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I agree i work for a bank, the banks are laughing at the government/bank of England.

Only a small number are passing on rate cuts the rest are sitting back and earning a serious amount of cash of us all.

anyway back to the fuel increase, with the motor industry failing too is this going to help?

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

Have you been seeing Gordon Brown's personal astrologist? :D

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

This was announced at at the emergency budget in December, so no, it hadn't crept up on anyone. Life changes, get over it. If you want to moan about rising fuel costs, shout at the oil companies.

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

Or perhaps shout at HMG whose patent mishandling of the economoy has so diminished the value of Sterling that the recent huge falls in the oil price are passing UK PLC by.

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

wow dont we know how to over- react ! "end is comming:shrug:"

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Bus...ajor_Economies

well some think its going to take the UK a little longer to get out of recession,i'll stick with the IMF point of view.

Re: Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre
 

How do you work that out? The oil companies get about 30p out of every pound, which means HMG gets 70p, without the cost of refining the oil or delivering it to petrol stations, get real!.