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Xaccers · 27-04-2005, 10:54

Oh please let there be blockades and fuel shortages again, pretty please!
Have you seen the price of diesel?? It's over 91p a ltr here around milton keynes!
When you consider on the rest of the continent it's about 2/3 to 3/4 the price of their unleaded, how can they justify the extra cost over here?
I think, thanks to the previous blockades and campains by the AA, people realise that the fuel companies and garage owners don't make much money from the sale of fuel, people know it's all down to tax.
And of course the tax/duty is a percentage of the price of the goods, so oil goes up because of the situation in the gulf, and hey presto it goes up even more because of the resultant duty increase!
Treasury is nice and happy, all this extra cash, no direct tax rise by goverment, in fact Gordon "I'll increase the escalator to 6p per year "Brown can say "ooo no, because of the high price of oil, we won't put up fuel duty", no, because you've already got the extra money needed you git!

Last year I took a ferry to france and filled up with 100ltrs of diesel. The savings paid for the cost of the ferry!

So come on lorry drivers and farmers, get the blockades going and lets use that to oust Labour!

27-04-2005, 10:54	#44
Xaccers Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Milling around Milton Keynes Age: 49 Posts: 12,969	Re: Is it time to fill up Oh please let there be blockades and fuel shortages again, pretty please! Have you seen the price of diesel?? It's over 91p a ltr here around milton keynes! When you consider on the rest of the continent it's about 2/3 to 3/4 the price of their unleaded, how can they justify the extra cost over here? I think, thanks to the previous blockades and campains by the AA, people realise that the fuel companies and garage owners don't make much money from the sale of fuel, people know it's all down to tax. And of course the tax/duty is a percentage of the price of the goods, so oil goes up because of the situation in the gulf, and hey presto it goes up even more because of the resultant duty increase! Treasury is nice and happy, all this extra cash, no direct tax rise by goverment, in fact Gordon "I'll increase the escalator to 6p per year "Brown can say "ooo no, because of the high price of oil, we won't put up fuel duty", no, because you've already got the extra money needed you git! Last year I took a ferry to france and filled up with 100ltrs of diesel. The savings paid for the cost of the ferry! So come on lorry drivers and farmers, get the blockades going and lets use that to oust Labour!