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Don't go near Manchester this weekend

I put the Question to Labour MP Jim McGovern about the fuel rip off at a hustings last night ,you can read his reply on my post fuel rip of.If you can read it without laughing you are doing well. If he had his way we would all use buses and every city would have a congestion charge.His comments are one sure way of not getting elected.

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if i took £5000* and my fuel is costing £1000 id be liable for £880 income tax (ignoring all the other costs)

plus HMG would have had £500 duty/vat = £1330 to gordon


if i took £5000 and paid £200 for the fuel, id be liable for £1056 tax and £100 in vat/duty = £1156

only £174 difference

a clever goverment would make themselves look good by dropping fuel vat/duty altogether

private motorists dont really spend much on fuel

Haulage companies spend LOTS more...










*for a year, example only

Three Shell franchise garages in Sefton all with same owner, two of them about 2 miles from each other on same side of carriageway running from Bootle in direction of southport and both charging £1.21/9 litre, next chance to fill up is about six miles to Formby forcing anyone within that to pay the £1.21/9. Owner of the same franchise in a station in Maghull charging £1.18.9 three pence cheaper (still too expensive) and the reason it's cheaper is that there is an Esso station about 0.3 mile before it in the direction of Ormskirk with a good 6 mile again to the next garage. These two garages always charge the same but the point being is that when the shell has competition it's prices are lower than the first two mentioned staion's. This surely is pricefixing in a way and it must go on everywhere. Charnock richard services want £1.29 so it proves that regardless of the price of oil it's more a case of screwing people who don't have an option.

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Wishing I was in Greenhall Whitley Land.

The price of oil will continue to rise, you've only got to look on the news and see the Army in Nigeria clamping down on illegal refineries. In any one day the can close upto 20 illegal refineries. With the price of oil who can blame them for selling it on the black market?

And there is nothing you can do about it..... Get used to it or get out while the goings good

It seems to go up a penny a week at the moment.

Oil's gone back down to under $80 a barell this week, a $6 decrease, but the pump price won't.

what you need to do is backload, get a fare both ways, even if it means a wait

http://www.quotemetaxi.com/

http://quotemea2b.co.uk/

http://www.backfares.co.uk/

http://www.taxiquoter.co.uk/


or look for goods to carry back if youve space.....

what hacks me off is that engines have crept up from 90hp to 110, 130, 155, and more, but havent moved on from 55mpg (if your lucky), WHY NOT?

20 years ago a maestro Tdi gave me 50mpg with its old perkins engine that never went wrong, no Hdi, no DMF, no CSC, no £150 injectors or £60 diagnostics

Same here Wannabe, 2.3TD Ford Sierra with no fancy pumps giving me 45mpg on a steady run. All that car had was a battery and atlenator.

i had the 1800cc Td sierra was it? yours was a peugot engine? my cambelt broke still only cost half the price of a DMF

I had an A35 years ago,carried four people did 70mph and 45mpg (though not all at the same time) and never needed more than a tenner and half an hour spending on it no matter what went wrong.
Progress?.
Link to news about the bikers protest http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/motorcyclists-demonstrate-against-rising-fuel-costs-1960430.html

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Selling Imperial tools for old cars.

Im just glad im not running a fleet of 44 tonne scania+trailers

8mpg, 2-3000 miles a week, 1700 ltrs a week, say 50 trucks

85,000 ltrs then it goes up 4p/ltr = £3400 a week extra to pay

ouch

$77 today? Fuel prices going down?

Prices still going up round here.