Petrol prices set to hit record £1.22 a litre

[Eoin247]

We simply can't leave Africa totaly to it's own devices at this stage because of what we've seen time and time again. For example early foreign intervention would have prevented the Rwandan genocide. In the end sure Paul Kagame took power and that was their own action. But this was at the cost of millions of lives.

Ok, i understand your point on it and believe me, i am not totaly for giving away lots of money in times like this. (I mean Ireland still giving aid yet we are having a bailout?).

You said that people would in general give more money than even the government would give if they were taxed less. I don't know about this, but if it's true then yes it would be better to leave people to their own devices regarding charity.

[FlyingJesus]

Surely if prices are 1.29 in some parts of London then 1.22 isn't a record hi my name's Tom and I'm a winner the end

[Zak]

Ridiculous.

But they all have us in a trap because they know we need petrol. They keep raising it, then dropping it then raising it even more. I feel it's only a matter of time before it hits 1.30 which is completely unfair.

[Swastika]

Which country has the cheapest petrol prices?
Just curious.

[Christian]

Which country has the cheapest petrol prices?
Just curious.

Venezuela, it's 2p a litre there, the Socialist government subsidies it so much that it's actually sold at well below the production costs.

[Conservative,]

Wow that's high. :\

But I don't mind, as long as I have a job when I start to drive I won't be paying insurance or anything because that's all paid for me so this isn't a big issue for me. However, I think it's disgusting how badly we're ripped off...no matter if it affects me or not the price of petrol shouldn't be this high...most of the tax is because of global warming right?

[Swastika]

Wow that's high. :\

But I don't mind, as long as I have a job when I start to drive I won't be paying insurance or anything because that's all paid for me so this isn't a big issue for me. However, I think it's disgusting how badly we're ripped off...no matter if it affects me or not the price of petrol shouldn't be this high...most of the tax is because of global warming right?

Yeah, that thing that doesn't exist.

[Conservative,]

Yeah, that thing that doesn't exist.

I understand VAT and all that but really taxing for something that doesn't exist...how pathetic. Global warming was more than just a scare-mongering thing to make people cut back on waste..it's a total scam to make the Governments more money through tax & bio-fuels ect.

[Wig44.]

Just like to point out before someone comes in and says 'lOl itz climate change guyz' that the climate is changing, and we can see that throughout history, temperatures have fluctuated globally by startling amounts, long before the rise of 'civilised' man. We have nothing to do with the change in climate and to think that we can have that effect on something as complex as our world is just plain arrogant.

[Swastika]

Just like to point out before someone comes in and says 'lOl itz climate change guyz' that the climate is changing, and we can see that throughout history, temperatures have fluctuated globally by startling amounts, long before the rise of 'civilised' man. We have nothing to do with the change in climate and to think that we can have that effect on something as complex as our world is just plain arrogant.

Apparently there are history records that show that vines of grapes where once grew in Northern Scotland, that shows how much the climate has changed over the years - its natural and has nothing to do humans.