Petrol prices set to hit record £1.22 a litre

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It costs me about £4 from college at back everyday lol and now they've got rid of EMA.
No point of buying a car, it will cost me a lot to drive to college now. :|

£4!! only costs me £1.55 lol

[Chippiewill]

It's only because of the snow, people are panic stocking up on petrol.

PANIC ABOUT ECONOMY IS OVER.

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It's only because of the snow, people are panic stocking up on petrol.

PANIC ABOUT ECONOMY IS OVER.

I think you'll find the vast bulk of it is government tax (as shown by the diagrams I posted).

[Chippiewill]

I think you'll find the vast bulk of it is government tax (as shown by the diagrams I posted).

As Demand goes up, so do prices, as do taxes.

[-:Undertaker:-]

As Demand goes up, so do prices, as do taxes.

Tax doesn't go up with demand, tax goes up when a government is spending too much/becomes greedy.

[Chippiewill]

Tax doesn't go up with demand, tax goes up when a government is spending too much/becomes greedy.

Guess what, we're in debt. Did you just want the government not to raise taxes or something?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Guess what, we're in debt. Did you just want the government not to raise taxes or something?

Er I think you will find we have been in debt for a long very time and that petrol prices have nothing to do with 'clearing the debt' as our government still sees it fit (just as the last government did) to spend £10bn+ a year to the EU, £10bn+ a year on foreign aid and £18bn+ a year on climate change.

Maybe instead of hurting the economy by raising taxes all of the time, government should cut itself back and stop wasting all of our money.

[Chippiewill]

Er I think you will find we have been in debt for a long very time and that petrol prices have nothing to do with 'clearing the debt' as our government still sees it fit (just as the last government did) to spend £10bn+ a year to the EU, £10bn+ a year on foreign aid and £18bn+ a year on climate change.

Maybe instead of hurting the economy by raising taxes all of the time, government should cut itself back and stop wasting all of our money.

EU) I don't agree with it personally, however that's what the government wants to do and to pursue it they need taxes
FA) Ok, so when the UK somehow (Against common logic) suffers a major earthquake devastating all major cities you would prefer that we did not get aid ourselves?
CCH) Climate Change in a globally recognised problem that many feel should be resolved,if that involves investing money then that's what happens.

And we elected the government therefore we voted to have our money wasted. It's our own fault entirely.

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EU) I don't agree with it personally, however that's what the government wants to do and to pursue it they need taxes

Indeed, which is why I keep telling people to vote in order to get us out of it.

FA) Ok, so when the UK somehow (Against common logic) suffers a major earthquake devastating all major cities you would prefer that we did not get aid ourselves?

We don't get aid and quite frankly yes, its our responsibility to look after ourselves by having our finances in order - its not the responsibility of Czech taxpayers, U.S. taxpayers and so forth. I must say though, you do realise most of this foreign aid ends up in rich countries/goes to third world regimes?

CCH) Climate Change in a globally recognised problem that many feel should be resolved,if that involves investing money then that's what happens.

The fact the globe has been cooling for the past 15 years rather closes the curtains on this so-called 'problem'.

[Chippiewill]

We don't get aid and quite frankly yes, its our responsibility to look after ourselves by having our finances in order - its not the responsibility of Czech taxpayers, U.S. taxpayers and so forth. I must say though, you do realise most of this foreign aid ends up in rich countries/goes to third world regimes?

Statistics please.

The fact the globe has been cooling for the past 15 years rather closes the curtains on this so-called 'problem'.

Yes, I see that there is a negative gradient at the end... not.