BigAl#13 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 It wouldn't help on the keeping-earth-in-a-habitable-state front. Burning petrol incurs hideous environmental costs. Well of course, but then so does a majority of power generation for the entire country and indeed world, short of coming up with a completely dependable, and safe alternative then any kind of production will "kill the world" a little bit more each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonjon Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Hang on, what about petrol bombers? So if a terrorist was to burn a builiding down using petrol in the UK, we would actually be funding that in some part?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treatment Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 It wouldn't help on the keeping-earth-in-a-habitable-state front. Burning petrol incurs hideous environmental costs. Would you still say that if you lived North of Tokyo ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 So if a terrorist was to burn a builiding down using petrol in the UK, we would actually be funding that in some part?? Yes, what an outrage! And that evil Tory Osborne is helping them! Being serious for a moment, petrol is subject to a hideous rate of taxes and duties from the raw product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 1p per litre cut, is that all???? Going up 4p next year though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahonia Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Petrol coming down ..............1p a litre , I can not contain my excitement:| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 What about the important stuff like booze, and cigs. Any word? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 And it will now be subsidised by all So in effect anyone who doesn't drive, will now be subsidising our fuel. no, people who drive will be subsiding everything else in a stable way from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Being serious for a moment, petrol is subject to a hideous rate of taxes and duties from the raw product.With ref to my earlier post, there is a 39% difference (£1.389 here, £0.998 there) between UK and LU diesel price/litre, and a 35% difference (£1.389 here, £1.172 there) between UK and FR diesel price/litre. I don't know about the UK price, but I do know that the LU price includes an austerity measure uplift (over and above the 'normal' duty+VAT, VAT being 15% over there). VAT is 19.6% for the FR price/litre. All of the above is current/as of 23 March 2011. That leads me to conclude that there's got to be either (i) some seriously expensive refining processes used in the UK, or (ii) a seriously expensive duty rate. Or maybe both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 With ref to my earlier post, there is a 39% difference (£1.389 here, £0.998 there) between UK and LU diesel price/litre. I don't know about the UK price, but I do know that the LU price includes an austerity measure uplift (over and above the 'normal' duty+VAT, VAT being 15% over there). That leads me to conclude that there's got to be either (i) some seriously expensive refining processes used in the UK, or (ii) a seriously expensive duty rate. Or maybe both It's difficult to take just one item out of a revenue/spend system and ask why isn't ours the same..I don't know what other taxes are like there and how it's spent.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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