This joke is floating over internet for past few months.
Compatible ink cartridges are far cheaper than OEM ones.
Tap water, which is free (well sort or, we pay water tax) is perfect replacement for Evian water.
For all other cases, I have an alternative choice - so their price really doesn't matter.
For petrol we don't have a choice (public transport is not always an option).
And fuel price directly affects price of all other goods.
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What's the average price for a pint of beer these days, £3.00, £3.50? At £3.50= £28 a gallon. And how often do you hear the boasters on a Monday morning saying they had 12pints in one session. £42 on beer, + fags, at what, £4 a pack, whilst stood outside in the rain smokin' 'em, but each to their own. I've posted elsewhere on this forum about a day out SWMBO & I did to Blackpool & for the experience, against app £10 & 3 times quicker by car, using our bus passes. We reckoned it would have cost us over £35 to do the same trip in fares. And before anyone pipes up & says they are paying for our bus passes, just remember to get one you have to be 60+, & unless you've been a lazy pink fluffy dice instead of grafting, you've already paid for 'em. £6 a gallon? Cheap as chips. ;) ;) ;)
Edited by Webmaster on 21/07/2008 at 18:26
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Cheap as chips?
Two pieces of haddock and one portion of chips cost us £10.40 on the way home the other night, the chips being £1.40!
I've suggested on here before that in the early 70's a gallon of petrol, a paperback book, and a packet of fags all cost about the same. By that measure petrol is cheap currently, but fags are mostly tax and if paperback books were the same size as in the early 70's they'd cost less to produce.
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£6 a gallon can be seen as good vfm if, as in my case, ya don't do that many miles ... I can get 45 mpg if I drive my 1.8 Almera automatic like a cadaver on Valium but ... I have great sympathy for the hauliers and others who are being skinned alive by the geezer @ No. 11 for which I can't really offer any answers but ... one way to increase revenue could be to allow smoking in pubs + bring the boys back home !!!
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I think those 'gallons' quoted by the OP are US gallons - based on a 16oz pint, rather than a 20oz pint here - just multiply all 'per gallon' figures by 1.25
wasn't petrol roughly comparable to milk in price/litre at one time ?
just shows what a good job those oil companies do in getting a tax-loaded product out at a 'usable' price.
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The oil companies take the stick for the fuel price hikes, I think not. Consider the tax.
The geezer at No. 11 is just doing what he's told, by the geezer at No.10. This cretin has run the economy for the past 11yrs. 10 of them when he was in No. 11 & look at the cock-ups he made, now we're all paying for it, except the MPs who make sure their nests are well feathered, buy their household requirements & charge 'em to the tax payer, then get a fat redundancy pay out when they get kicked out of power. It's not a gravy train these "servants of the public" are on, but a molasses train, their greed is so thick. It is said that rulers of Banana Republics are corrupt, how long before this country is considered to be on the same level? if not already.
It's reported that the 2p fuel tax rise is on hold, how generous of these free-loaders to consider us mere underlings, by saving us the extra burden. The tax should be cut, not just to delay another rise in revenue.
Climbs off ones soapbox feeling a little better.
Edited by Kanberlingoo on 16/07/2008 at 20:18
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I guess politicians will always get a bad press, probably deservedly in certain cases. However I think we have to accept that the current global economic travails are very much down to the banking and finance sector who have seriously messed things up for all of us over the last decade and now the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost. And remember that these guys wouldn't get out of bed for an MP's salary - they have secretaries who earn as much as MP's and they get bonuses measured in £millions. They have realised that success = big salary + bonuses. Failure = big salary + big redundancy payout + pension + taxpayer bails you out! (this is true both sides of the Atlantic).
I really don't think MP's (of any party) are freeloaders - they actually work pretty hard (mostly), are exposed to constant scrutiny, and their expenses are very modest by the standards of most of higher echelons of the private sector. I know this doesn't suit the 'Daily Wail' mindset, but its true.
Incidentally, if anyone thinks petrol would be cheaper under the Conservatives then they might want to reflect on Tim Yeo's (Con) comment that the suspension of the 2p duty rise is 'bad news for the environment'. I can only take that to mean that he would be in favour of the rise? And do you remember who introduced the 'fuel duty escalator'?
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"I really don't think MP's (of any party) are freeloaders" Really!
I reckon the biggest freeloader of this present outfit, were the Blairs, or at least the most publicised. Now we have the MPs voting out the attempt to ban their John Lewis list
of goodies that we pay for. The fact that there are higher paid people in industry etc. doesn't alter the fact that they claim for & get what they can get away with, with impunity, as they themselves make the rules.
The present economic debacle is global, but this country is marked out as the most heavily taxed in Europe, with or without the mire we now find ourselves in.
"Rip off Britain" was never more apt.
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The present economic debacle is global but this country is marked out as the most heavily taxed in Europe with or without the mire we now find ourselves in.
Would you care to provide a citation? I think there are a number of other European countries where the tax take (as a percentage of GDP) is higher than ours, in several cases quite a lot higher.
I suspect that if the tax on fuel were to be reduced then we would pay more tax elsewhere. The housing market has collapsed (prices ramped up followed by credit crunch) so the Chancellor will be facing an estimated £5bn shortfall there. The 2p duty postponement will cost over £1bn. No doubt unemployment will be rising soon. The money has to come from somewhere. The British public have shown that they vote in favour of lower income tax, so I guess the tax will have to be applied to expenditure and motoring has shown itself to be relatively 'inelastic' in terms of tax applied.
Personally I think that raising income tax would be fairest, possibly with more bands. All these additional taxes on motoring are rather regressive. On the other hand, has anyone else noticed a bit less traffic on the roads in the last month or so?
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I've seen posts on other forums that indicates whilst fuel is often cheaper abroad, they have other taxes on cars that more than makes up for it! Eire is a good example, I think?
Re traffic, yes I noticed when I came back into the country at 1400 on Saturday and drove up to Brum that I never got held up anywhere (even on the M25!) and traffic was noticably lighter than previous years...
Would agree that MPs are feathering their own nests, though - I know its not motoring related (except for their expenses?!!) but it needs to be said, perhaps eventually they may take note... on the other hand, they probably won't!
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>>For petrol we don't have a choice (public transport is not always an option).
Nonsense. Diesel.
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