Interesting idea - but where do the supermarkets buy their fuel from? Do they buy it on the open market? Or are they supplied by BP / ESSO or Shell etc?
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Interesting idea - but where do the supermarkets buy their fuel from? Do they buy it on the open market? Or are they supplied by BP / ESSO or Shell etc?
Dunno.:confused, Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncansby
This will be really easy for us to do in Caithness :cool:
Am not sure that is perhaps the answer....
Just another thought on things......
I paid $1.08 cents this am per litre....that is .68p according to the exchange rate today. And I am sure that North America and Europe are not paying such a different price for the wholesale cost, so can it be the Taxes...i.e. The UK Gov't tax being more??
Just another thought on a ...........subject!
According to this site it is composed as illustrated:-Quote:
Originally Posted by sandyr1
http://www.petrolprices.com/price-of-petrol.html
Big chunk to the Gov't...............
If you scroll down to page 6 there is a useful graph showing the amount of duty paid across EU states in 2002. I have seen a more up-to-date version (which also includes USA and Canada) but I can't seem to find it at the moment. But I do remember that the USA had, if not the lowest duty applied it was certainly close to the least.
Get an electric car.
4p ish for about 200 miles.
OK if you buy new cars with a starting price of around £24,000 after the Gov. bribe, and you don't need to go anywhere. Range is only about 100 milesQuote:
Originally Posted by redeyedtreefrog
and not 4pish for 200 miles :eek::lol:
Oh, and good luck getting serviced in Wick
In Canada the value of Tax added is approx 30%.. It varies across the Provinces and you are correct about the United States....Less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncansby
The UK is quite expensive....Maybe its time to chase 'e Gov't mannie'!
Husband was at a dinner party with some of Mr O's backroom boys last weekend- £20 per gallon isn't beyond imagination. face it- its an easy tax. it will take much more than high prices to get petrolheads out of their cars.
Why not up the tax on:
posh shirts? brandy and cigars? membership of the Bullingdon Club? Freebie cruises? posh baby buggies? I'm sure we can all suggest some way that we can spread the load?
[lol] The first Google advert at the bottom of the page on that link is for a National Red Diesel Supplier! Class! [lol]Quote:
Originally Posted by scorrie
Even better, drive a landrover and use cooking oil. Much cheaper. Highly illegal if not disclosed but cheaper. Oh minor draw back, smells like a chip shop arriving at your house.
whats the sense hitting at the oil company's after all they are the one's who have too dig it out of the ground and they have to make a profit the ones that should be took to task is the government it is them that are making all the profit what it needs in this country is for everyone to protest over the way the government are robbing the motorists what we must bare in mind is when the cost of fuel goes up the cost of everything else goes up 2.5% increase in vat = 2.5% on goods also 2.5% on cost of transporation what is needed is direct action like a few years ago it may takea little pain to get a little gain
Where they buy from at source i am unsure but i do know for fact all tankers fill up at the same refinery and the same filling pumps. I have seen this for my own eyes at Foley Refinery Southampton many moons ago and i was amazed. Like all things no doubt, the more you buy the better rate you get. Companies like tesco would not be hurt by lack of sales at their pumps and their profit is made in the store. I would love to join a boycott as i put over £250 most weeks in my van but is that the answer. Some of us need the fuel to do are job, let alone get to work. It seems a no win situation. I try hard to fill up at Dunnets in Wick but i get alot of unwanted pressure from Inverness office when i do. I like to use the town garage and would be sad to see them go but as prices rise and times get even harder every penny counts and tesco are the cheapest but a fair bit.
Not quite. Most shops are VAT registered, so the extra VAT on the fuel gets claimed back throughout the chain, so that in effect, no-one pays it. The only extra VAT is on the net value of the end product.
Not if, as your locations suggests, you spend most of your time underneath it in the garage!Quote:
Originally Posted by muddywilli
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