Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat
FUEL PRICES
Reaper:
--- Quote ---I wouldn't be too bitter if that's the case!
--- End quote ---
Maybe I am bitter :?: it's just that it would be so unlike the government to let something thats growing so fast go for too long without taxing it big time. I do apologise for being negative its just that it seems some times that the whole world is against us enjoying our mode of fun (maybe not this time thougt as you point out) :) :)
littlepow:
--- Quote from: "Dangermouse" ---I beleve last time round the tanker drivers went on strike in support of the protester's & that stoped the flow of fuel.
I beleve the govenment's responce was to make it illegal for the tanker driver's to go on strike :cry: problem solved after all we can't have effective protest's can we . Not british is it .
--- End quote ---
Last time the goverment put the military on standby to drive the tankers with escorts. The theory being to break the blockade and you the escorts to clear the roads for the tankers. :evil:
datalas:
The problem is that there is no efficient way at hitting the cause of the problem.
OPEC have larger concerns than whether Britain is happy, since in the grand scheme of things we aren't all that important, ergo they are unlikely to respond to whatever pressure we can exert, especially if we chose to exert it in any form of blockade.
The Oil companies *may* respond to pressure applied in this manner, but their response is likely to either be short lived or proportionately small. they can't realy change the price paid per barrel and whilst they can slash their profits they are at the end of the day answerable to their share holders and unlikely to take "drastic" action.
The Government ultimately, *could* cut tax, but as has been adequately pointed out this country costs a small fortune to run. Since this figure won't change by people lining the streets in protest the additional money will *have* to come from somewhere. So they drop tax on fuel by 5p a litre, they will still manage via an increase in income tax, tax on something else, import duty or something manage to extract that money from the population, since they will have to do that, or cut back services, the later not being considered a vote winner...
Once they've done that, and the price of oil comes back down (which it likely will once the US has recovered from Katrina) they will raise the levy on fuel duty again because it was a "temporary reduction", however they will have a replacement source of income which they are unlikely to relinquish. Ergo, in an effort to save us money they charge us more....
Just my $0.02
davidlandy:
--- Quote from: "Dangermouse" ---
--- Quote ---And after all that... it proved and achieved absolutely nothing.
--- End quote ---
My point if badley expressed.
--- End quote ---
ermmm......It did acheive something
Mr Brown reduced road fund licence for LGVs on the back of it.
dimoven:
Gordon Brown,accrues increased revenues as the cost of fuel rises ,he might throw the motorist a few pence,In the lead up to xmas ,tanker drivers and everyone else will be thinking about a steady income to pay for all those goodies ,this early in the govt life the electorate is irelevant.
Result misery for the motorist ,loads of overtime for the police and armed forces,Gods in his heaven ,and we await the successor to the internal combustion engine,which is well overdue.
Have a nice life.
Regards Donn
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version