fuel prices cut

[n4lly]

Thought this bloody penny was surposed to come off at

1800 Hrs Yesterday. Local BP is 1.339. same as it was yesterday.

 

As originaly said, this cut is a waste of much needed revenue

 

BTW i have taken to driving slower in recent months.

[flapper]

Because it's businesses that generate jobs and wealth and, without them, this country is doomed.

It merely shifts attention and valuable resources from one industry to another.

What this reallocation of resources does is it hides the true costs of government interference in the market. Government projects assume that it only knows how to allocate resources better than consumers or businesses know how to spend or invest.

[barry luxton]

What this reallocation of resources does is it hides the true costs of government interference in the market. Government projects assume that it only knows how to allocate resources better than consumers or businesses know how to spend or invest.

 

Good point. The previous admin were rather expert in spending our money, resources, savings, pensions, reserves, printing money, spending our kids future savings. giving massive amounts to the eu including hard earned rebates for them to spend willy nilly. Hoping the electorate have a long memory proir to allowing them back to hold our purse strings.

Edited March 24, 2011 by barry luxton

[chesters1]

its quite easy to blame maggie for everything but subsequent labour governments were quite happy to keep implementing maggies changes .they had over a decade this time to repeal maggies laws but were happy to keep them ,are the conservatives going to repeal all these bad labour decisions that brought us to bankruptcy once more,we'l see but dont hold your breath ,its easy to slate "THE LAST LOT" but carry on raking in the money off the backs of those that suffer most ,in the conservatives reign they usually do the hard thing and get the money in and labour kid were all better off and throw it all away again leaving us deeper in the mire when they are ,blowing it on us with incentives at election times conning us to vote them back in but secretly laughing the conservative will be reviled at making the hard decisions if labour lose.

it is boom and bust but for all the wrong reasons ,the conservatives hurt us getting the country on its feet and the labour lot hurt us buggering it all up again

Edited March 24, 2011 by chesters1

[flapper]

One year on. With promises in growth of the economy from the coalition government all they have done is produce a shrinking economy.

The black hole that they said that they inherited from the last government has done nothing but get blacker and deeper.

Flapper.

[n4lly]

Why can'nt the people of this country take its medicine ?

I had a red flag stuffed up my butt for 13 years, i took it for the team.

 

I dont care too much for Clegg and his tree huggers, but hey ho.

 

Here's the thing, imagine team GB got out of the red and into the black, imagine what that would

do to esential services and sociaty overall.

 

Profit is not a dirty word !

 

Companies making profit would be"Banking money" earning interest, which is taxble. (No bonus to the banker)

 

Companies (losing money) borrowing are paying inflated interest rates to Banks and not paying TAX. (Big bonus to banker)

 

Companis that are losing money and blame lack of investment and therefore need to borrow money at inflated

interest rates (due to the risk involved) just to keep afloat for the next 6 month's are the F*ck wits who got us

where we are today.

 

These are the type of loans our dim witted bank bosses bought off of the US and Iceland, because of the high

interest / Yeald's ? (sp) available.

 

Where is the US and Iceland today in the bailout.

 

Its too easy now to declare bankrupt.

 

We now have the PIIGS, we may have soon PIIGES

 

Get to work people, pay your tax and when interest get back to a base rate of 5% the better.

 

Why? because that will (hopfully)stop the chav's from putting more on their Egg card and may encourage some

real investment, for a change.

[big_cod]

Thought this bloody penny was surposed to come off at

1800 Hrs Yesterday. Local BP is 1.339. same as it was yesterday.

 

As originaly said, this cut is a waste of much needed revenue

 

BTW i have taken to driving slower in recent months.

 

The staff cant be arsed to change the bill board when they know its gonna go up today .

 

paul.

[big_cod]

Why can'nt the people of this country take its medicine ?

I had a red flag stuffed up my butt for 13 years, i took it for the team.

 

I dont care too much for Clegg and his tree huggers, but hey ho.

 

 

 

Get to work people, pay your tax and when interest get back to a base rate of 5% the better.

 

Thats when half of the young population could end out on the streets people are struggleing to pay there morgages now with all the rises on food utility bills etc remember the boom and bust of 80ss and there wasnt a banking crisis then funny how people call the last goverment but you could here a pin drop when things were rosy people have very short memories this goverment will create a massive divide between the have and have nots with the majority been the havenots.

 

paul.

Edited March 25, 2011 by big_cod

[Elton]

I'm pretty a-political, but I will say this:

 

I hardly drive anywhere now, unless I really have to. I didn't do many miles, anyway, and there's no way I'd buy a small-engined car, but the important thing is not that I'm buying less fuel, but that I'm not spending money at the destinations I might have gone to before.

 

If any government wants people to spend money to get the economy moving, then having them sitting at home can't be a good thing, surely? You want them out there, spending money.

 

Even I have limits to the amount of tat I can buy from eBay

[Colin Brett]

Like you Elton, my miles travelled have dropped dramatically.

 

I'm on a pension and fuel could/is be the biggest cost in my budget after our food bill, infact my last fill up cost me £75.40 which is well over half my weekly pension.

 

I changed from an X Trail [2.0 petrol] to a 307 Diesel Estate last year, so from 28-30 mpg to 56-60 mpg, pleased I did with fuel the way it is! I changed the car in early September [2010] and have only just done 3000 miles. Normal mileage would be double that [thank goodness for my bus pass]

 

I've also slowed down considerably but am surprised to see NOT many others have??

 

I wonder how many on here are still blasting along with the same gay abandon that went with petrol/diesel at 85p a litre?

 

The fuel industry are now bleating they have not had a chance to sell the petrol they have, that was taxed at the higher rate, shame they don't think of that before putting prices up on stock they had paid the lower tax on, time after time, after time!!

 

The thing that really annoys me is the price differential in different areas. I was in Ipswich for a Joe Bonamassa gig last October, fuel there was 4p a litre cheaper than around Cambridge.