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Mmmm you watch Opec drop production on Monday morning leading to higher prices at the pumps by Monday night.

The Blue's aren't going to give you something without taking something away, 6% on ciggies is enough to cover what they are losing out to bootleggers on the streets.

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

Do you think that it makes any difference which party in in charge?
I certainly don't.

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Grandad,

the civil servants run the country, they dont change at election time

goverments have only YOUR money to play with

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Has the duty on a litre dropped by 1p or the equivalent of 1p, I thought duty was charged as a percentage ?

I average 8 miles per litre, how many extra yards will I be able to drive if a litre of fuel costs 1p less - over a week it's around an extra 6 miles, whoopee doo ! (actually, rough calc. 18p p/m so 1/18th mile further)

Anyway wondering what to do with the extra £1 'ish a week I'm saving on fuel !!

Spend it on fuel when the price goes up tomorrow.........

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I think duty is charged in pence per litre. VAT is charged at a percentage.

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Grandad,

Aint dropped at my local forecourt..it was 142.9 PPL yesterday and its 142.9 PPL today..are they taking the P*ss or not (no competition)...the next similar sized town 8 miles away Its 136.9 PPL..but they have 2 garages Competing.

My car tax is as cheap now as it was 10 years ago.

And Mrs Sx pay £35 a year for her brand new motor.

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IDFIMH

one like this?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Total put their's up round here last night by 1p a litre.

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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Motorists not seeing full 1p duty cut at the pumps

Fuel prices have fallen since the Budget, but by less than the 1p cut in duty announced by Chancellor George Osborne, UK-wide research has found.

There was a 0.6p average fall in petrol and diesel from Wednesday to Thursday, the survey by Experian Catalist found.

The 1p cut in duty on petrol and diesel took effect from 1800 GMT on Wednesday.

The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) says many garages will delay implementing the cut until stocks of existing, more expensive fuel are gone.

The survey found that the average cost of a litre of unleaded fell from £1.33.5p to £1.32.9p, while average diesel prices fell by the same amount, from £1.40.3p to £1.39.7p.

Some motorists have been contacting the BBC to complain that their local garages put up prices in advance of the Budget, so they are still paying more despite the fuel duty cut.

Other drivers reported that they had seen prices go up by a penny, so the cut in duty simply put them back where they were a few days ago.
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Brian Madderson of RMI Petrol, which represents 6,000 independent retailers, said businesses had faced a rise in their own costs this week which had to be passed on to drivers.

"In the last three days the price of diesel has gone up by a penny a litre and unleaded is up by 2p," he told BBC News on Thursday.

While supermarkets and some oil companies purchased supplies a week or more ahead, his members tended to buy fuel from day-to-day, he added.

The AA said that Shell had passed on the cut at its service stations as had supermarket Morrisons.

AA president Edmund King said: "Drivers have long memories and will remember those garages that have not passed on the cut."

He added: "On Monday, Ofgem accused the electricity suppliers of putting up prices quickly and bringing them down slowly - exactly the way drivers perceive the way they are treated by retailers.

"The road fuel industry desperately needs a regulator to act as honest broker between drivers, retailers and suppliers. If we had one, accusations of rip-off petrol stations would be answered fairly."

Political instability in the Middle East and North Africa has been putting upward pressure on the price of oil.

As the price of crude has risen, the cost increases have spilled over to refined products such as petrol and diesel.

Experian Catalist has charted an inexorable rise in the average price of fuel on the forecourt over the last month.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12862949

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Asda here put there diesel down the same night, Shell had a delivery at 10 PM 4 hours after the 6pm deadline they still have not dropped the price from 140.9

The garage that I use dropped by the 1p today.

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Grandad,

Had to laugh at this mush on radio five this afternoon.

Said retailers couldn't take off the penny as they had already bought and paid for the fuel and duty, which is fair enough.

But when questioned if retailers added the money when duty was increased, despite them having bought the fuel at a cheaper price his answer was, 'I wasn't involved in the trade group then, so I don't know.

Well Mr, I wasn't in the trade group either but I f***ing certain your lot did.

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IDFIMH

Wow, that's about three weeks until it goes up again then, what will I do with all that cash?