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Evilgoat:

--- Quote from: "Thrasher" ---Hmmm .. seems no-one has actually studied the document I posted :(

Tax on fuel is actually lessening .... take a look!
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Its not so much missing the point as an easy target.

Most of the adult population are drivers and this is probobly the biggest and most easilly targetted form of tax for them(us) to protest against, hold figures up for etc.

Most people arent going to care about reading something like that, they see the prices going up and get hacked off, and as already pointed out, we are still getting caned in relation to the rest of the planet. You also have to make allowance for readers of certain papers for whom words over four letters long are a strain.

A mate was complaining about it going over 49p/litre where he lived last night!!

littlepow:

--- Quote from: "blackbob" ---if there is a fuel blockade the we will see how many alternitive fuel cars are around
the way i see it there will be a lot of 4x4s still moving on lpg and dio-diesel/veggie oil and loads of people complaining about it instead of standing up and getting counted
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Where you going to get the LPG from, as a blockage would stop that being delieverd too!

Veg oil will run out, through lack of fuel for supermarket deliveries and unless you hold a stock of Bio-diesel, getting the stuff may prove problematic.

It's not just vehicles that will be effected. But the whole of the countries infrastructure, including food, water and heating!

Maybe it time to put the pressure on the vehicle manufacturers to do more towards economy, rather than top speed and acceleration.

Thrasher:
Littlepow - WELL SAID.

I'm not the only one that can see it  :shock:

Sider:
Actually, massa Neil, one could argue that your figures only cover up to 2005, and one could argue furthermore that said figures do not include VAT.

The fact that the taxation level was in 2005 a couple of percent points lower than in 2004 still does not excuse the fact that the taxation levels (and not only in fuel duty) in the UK are still among the highest in Europe.

The price of Diesel is roughly the same everywhere, yet Mr Brown is making us pay through the nose, not only with direct duty, but also benefiting 1p on every 5 the prices go up, thanks to the VAT.

datalas:
I think the key problem is that there is only a limited amount of solutions to the "problem"

as has been observed elsewhere the country takes increasing amounts of money to run,  whether this is due to increased civil service spending, wage hikes or people sitting on huge piles of cash whilst screaming "I'm lord of the banana people" isn't all that relevant, the government is required to do something.

Reducing expenditure is rarely considered a governmental talent, irrespective of the government in question, so about the only solution is to raise additional funds to cover the need.   If you think that it's unfair to do so via fuel costs then that is your right,  however I assure you that if they didn't do it via this mechanism they'd use another.

Different countries have different ways of ripping off their population, sorry, I mean taxing them.   Usually countries which are regarded as being "better" have a greater divide between the rich and the poor, take the US for example, 80% of the money is in the hands of 1% of the population or something equally outrageous, in Britain at least we're all pretty even on the pauper front.  Whether this is fair or not is an entirely different conversation.

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