tuffy 69 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 its not the major oil companies,its our goverment 75% prices of petrol is tax!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOGGY Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Believe it or not there is a way to get stupid fuel prices down. All we need to do is boycott the two major oil companies ie BP and ESSO, fill up anywhere but these two and just watch what happens. These two giants will have no alternative than to reduce prices. Yu don't know what your talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny11 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Let it go upto £2+ we get less cars on the road, i can get to where i want a lot faster then getting stuck begind some old crap out banger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 As Tuffy says. It's the tax that causes the high price. Petrol @ 126.9/litre = Product: 46.8p Duty/Tax: 81.1p So on the product cost that's essentially 173% TAX Diesel @ 131.9/litre = Product: 50.97p Duty/Tax: 80.9p So that's 158% tax on the cost of the fuel. Also remember that the VAT is applied AFTER they apply the fuel duty, so you're paying VAT on the duty cost aswell, essentially taxing a tax. Again, using the figures above, if we apply VAT to the fuel cost ONLY: Petrol @ 126.9/litre would drop to 115.9 (-11p/litre) Diesel @ 131.9/litre would drop to 120.9 (-11p/litre) As for boycotting the bigger brands it wouldn't work at all. Even thought supermarkets use smaller companies, it's the major companies that supply the oil so oil prices would just rocket instead. For your information, supermarket suppliers: Tesco - Mostly Greenergy - some stores are Esso based on a business alliance. Morrisons - Greenergy Asda - Harvest Fuels Sainsburys - Some sources say it's Greenergy however most point to BP as the supply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShotoKarate Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Get out of your cars and cycle! edit .... if the distance allows of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyrad29 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I think we should have the blockades again and make them listen, why should we just accept it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upinwath Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 There is a way but the retailers would have to do it. Signs saying: "OUR PETROL COST XXp PLUS YYp TAX = ZZp" How long could the government stand the protests? Just to bug you, petrol costs 33p/L out here. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millie123 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 its outragous! but yet in other contries its like 73.9p a litre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryRiley Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 upinwath has a good idea which has been championed by people before but unfortunately no petrol company is going to purposefully **** off the government like this. The government have a sweet deal, they put a ridiculous amount of tax on petrol and encourage the general public to believe that it's the greedy oil companies. Boycotting oil companies is a useless and misinformed idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John X Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I think we should have the blockades again and make them listen Like that worked last time! John X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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