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Range Rover Blues:
Maybe we should all start buying our fuel from the continent, it seems to have worked in forcing the duty on cigarettes and alcohol down.  Or was that just because the chancellor like a drink and a cigar :roll:

littlepow:
This is a good starting point. Just a pity it takes so long to filter down. A retro fit kit would be good.

http://www.ricardo.com/general/latestnews.aspx?id=24

Biodiesel-Bev:
There was an interesting article in the Daily Express yesterday.  They alledge that the hike in fuel prices is also due to the City and Hedge Funds...a select few fat cats getting very rich at the expense of your average vehicle owner.   :x
The biggest chunk of the £1+ per litre does go to the government.  apparently they rake in £44billion a year from vehicle related tax, and only £9billion goes towards road repairs etc.  :shock:
Where does the rest go?

CaptainColourful:

--- Quote from: "biodiesel-queen" ---There was an interesting article in the Daily Express yesterday.  They alledge that the hike in fuel prices is also due to the City and Hedge Funds...a select few fat cats getting very rich at the expense of your average vehicle owner.   :x
The biggest chunk of the £1+ per litre does go to the government.  apparently they rake in £44billion a year from vehicle related tax, and only £9billion goes towards road repairs etc.  :shock:
Where does the rest go?
--- End quote ---


So what's new ?
Fat cats always get fatter ....

I still don't understand how anyone can accept the huge difference between US prices and UK prices.


The NHS funding was originally from general taxation.... the motorist, smoker and drinker seem to be funding everything lately.

Elmo:
Declared interest, I'm a smoker, certainly a few years ago the governments own figures showed the tax on fags paid the whole NHS budget. So it can't be far off the same now given how cigarette duty rises every year. So Prudence Brown does not need your fuel duty for the NHS.

Someone asked what services I would be prepared to lose in return for less fuel duty - fair question. I know of two easy targets:

Trident - three dozen suitcase nukes would be a far more potent deterrent and much cheaper savings £££££££££s

QUANGOS (NGOs) - we (Prudence has no money it is all ours) spend in excess of £140 billion per annum on QUANGOS. For comparison the whole armed services gets £32-35 billion per annum. These are the people who poke their noses into our daily lives and mess with things as they have nothing better to do. Ditch the lot, saving £140 billion per annum which is way more than fuel taxes in total.

And those two are just for starters. Modern governments (not being party political here) rake in vast sums of money in the various forms of taxation then promptly squander about half of it. Sort that out and show me its sorted and I'll pay for the fuel gladly. Show me a country where people die for lack of NHS funding, while some group who no-one elected proclaim themselves responsible for, say, investigating the effect of the new Airbus Superjumbo on small mammals in East Sussex and are granted funding and I'll resent every penny of tax however levied.

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