As title my local fuel station has just raised the diesel price up to £1-50.9 its getting daft now. Steve
Hi Steve, It's beyond daft and has been for a long time. Unfortunately we're a broken nation, I remember not too long ago when we at least make a bit of a stand with the fuel blockades and the rolling road blocks, but now nothing. There has to be some way to do something as this government 'we' voted in just won't listen. Anth Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That is why we have a little Fiesta for general running around, a diesel Volvo for long trips and the bikes for any time we can get away with it. Generally as soon as the weather is even vaguely passable we are on the bikes because they are so much cheaper to run, and more fun of course, not a lot of good for the family shopping though!
Bikes arent always cheap . Ducati 999R , 15 ltrs gallon petrol = just over 20 minutes on the german autobahn . Empty tank. Couldnt tell you how fast as the speedo shows --- after 174 mph. But great fun.
Whilst this country needs to get itself sorted by lending to small businesses and encouraging people to spend again, I don't believe paying off the debt through fuel taxes is the most efficient. Hitting people hardest at the fuel pumps is too easy a tax for the govt, and one that also hurts people the most and limits any disposable income they may have. The oil corporates are not planning on earning any less - their responsibility is to shareholders only.
I do understand how useful that will be for dropping the kids off 100 yards down the road at school tho ;-)
I am a total saddo, I walk youngest to school, turn round, walk home, collect Monster, go past school on way to work. Youngest always wants to take Monster to school, but at junior school they do not have lockers and I cannot be bothered to take all his stuff home with me before going to work. To tell the truth I do quite enjoy the walk in the morning and his endless inane jabbering, I will miss it when he goes to senior school with his brother on the bus in September. I used to have sports car before the kids were born, bike is much better.
£27 to fill up the Multistrada last night, £27 in a bike! When I was a lad that much would have lasted a month
due to lack of funds I was only using the bike to get to Job centre and back so tank of petrol lasted over a month. As such last time I filled up it was 1.35 per litre imagine my shock today when I went to fill up monster and paid 1.41 FFS. Thing is it is not even the budgeted 3p increase yet. Also gov plaid it smart this time as 3p up is only for private use, haulage will stay unchanged so there will be no protests.
It isn't going to stop anytime soon.......not only has it rocketed recently, the Govt stuck some on in the budget and he will stick some more on in the very near future. When I first started riding bikes on the road, I was paid £5 pounds 10 shillings a week....I could fill up my 4 gallon petrol tank for about 75pence (3 shillings and sixpence a gallon), give my mother £2.00, buy a few packs of fags and b*gger off down the pub on a Wednesday and Friday night (getting p*ssed on the Friday) AL.
Alzheimer's, mate..................Apparently your short term memory goes and your long term memory starts to take over, but going backwards......a bit like that film with Brad Pitt, I reckon........ .......I expect that's why it took me so long to get my carbs off.......I kept going outside into the workshop and then forgot why I went out there. AL
Yeah and your Mum used to take the carpet out, throw it over the line and beat it because the hoover had not been invented yet!
Actually she had a Goblin cylinder vacuum cleaner (one of those things on two slide runners) but she did used to hang the carpet on the line and beat it...and my grandmother used to scrub her doorsteps........and I ain't joking. My father's first car was an Austin Seven and we used to go to Norfolk in it....it broke down quite often. AL
If the fuel tax was actually paying off the national debt I would not mind paying it, but they are still spending more than they are earning and the national debt is getting larger All government and local bodies are inefficient and waste resources, and they don't want to change My wife works for one, they employed a hot shot accountant who started to question what was going on, he was quickly dealt with and removed from the equation so that the incompetent finance team could be left to carry on unhindered
