Taxi Driver Online

Anyone any Idea as to why fuels suddenly shooting upwards again...price at my local forecourt has shot up from 112.9 Per lt diesel a fortnight ago and today its 118.9 for that same lt.

Is this a nationwide trend or a greedy garage??..or both?

Its gone up here too;

I got this email from one member a few days ago;

VAT on fuel - extra hidden duty - Important

This should be passed to as many people as possible! ...

When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists. Now that VAT has been increased to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed - hence recent rises in your fuel costs. Sign the petition at the link below to have this stealth tax removed!
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DutyReduction/
Please pass this on to your friends - the more the merrier. Happy motoring!

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

the BP in town has raised its price 1p a day 5 days in a row ! part of the extra cost is that all the pundits are driving down the value of the £ by reminding all the speculators that our debt problem is as bad as greeces so the pound is weak against the dollar which means cost of petrol and diesel go up and up and up and up I'm told that by the summer we will have RECORD HIGH PRICES

that is one prediction I don't want to see come true

That petition has now closed by the way !

AND THAT WILL ADD UP AS RECORD LOW EARNINGS!!

There's another 3p to go onto a litre of fuel in April making it close on £1.25 a litre.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/business/mar ... efault.stm

See also 'currencies' tab on same page.

It would appear that oil prices are climbing while the pound is falling. As oil is priced in Dollars that's a double whammy for us.

We are already having to pay £1.19.9 for both here in the borders

Do you wait for the change, of 1/10 of a penny, when you buy a litre?

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Former taxi driver

Why do petrol stations still persist in having prices end in .9 of a penny?
I would have thought that by now there would be an EU directive banning the use of non whole numbers on prices. There is an EU directive for pretty much everything else.
Maybe I will start a campagne.

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Grandad,

Why do filling stations always lock their toilets, are they afraid someone will sneak in and clean them

Ha ha ha that is so true. I wouldn't let a dog live in some of them.

An anti vandal measure I believe

If I was about to give birth to a turtle and the door was locked, I may have to become a vandal.

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Grandad,

£1.20 in some Bp garages, and Oils 'only' $82.

Imagine when it reaches $140 like 2 years ago, what will a litre be then? £2.34?

Christ, that will be it for many, that's about 50% of your money just for fuel.