ishy Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 8ft tall and two lanes wide, fifty five tons of American pride got me worried this 1 pound 75 p a gallon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 In Oz unleaded until this week have been around $1.30 / litre or about $5.50 AU gallon ,think that would be 2 pound 20 p. In the last few days has jumped 20 cents per litre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetfeet Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 every Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinell Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Just paid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomant Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 every Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetfeet Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 (edited) your not going to get far on a litre i would put more in Edited November 24, 2007 by wetfeet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffsgasgas Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 What i cant understand is how one country can pay so little where another pays so much. http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ Some global economy..... --Biff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilco Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 There's some strange stuff going on out there,went into 2 garage's today to fill up with diesel,all diesel pump's closed off only selling petrol,is it becoming to much of a loss for the smaller garage's to even sell it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jezza Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Read in the paper that a haulier running 8 lorries has seen his fuel bill rise by Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetfeet Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Ahh but are you making the assumption that the government spend the fuel tax on roads? It all goes in a big pot with every other tax they put on us and then they spend it. Some of that money would have gone on propping up the doomed Northern Rock to a tune of a few Billion pounds!! Chicken feed to them! Yes you get taxed, but if you are a businessman running a company, then you really get stung! Ah but I expect you to say, well you can afford it. But this simply isn't the case. If I were Richard Branson then I wouldn't mind but the fact is, there are loads of people like me providing jobs for people and getting heavily stung for it. Some one who owns a medium size company like me pays a huge amount of tax and its not just in tax! There are other hidden ways in which the government take money of us. For instance, in our UK operation for every person I employ, I have to make a national insurance contribution equal to what they pay (11%) - So, I have a 1.3million pound annual wage bill employing 90 people and I have to pay nearly 150k for the privilege. I would much prefer to use that money employing more people or giving our employees better benefits. But no, the government take it and waste it on the bureaucratic and inefficient health service amongst other things. We also get charged at the rate of 40% on any profits we make as well. So say you bought a trials bike for a grand and sold it for 2 grand. How would you feel giving the government Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozza321 Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 (edited) like it was said on top gear on Sunday, the oil companies charge 35p a litre to... 1)buy an oil rig 2)search for oil 3)drill the hole hoping for oil 4)extract the oil 5)export the oil from the rig 6)take oil to a refinery 7)refine oil 8)take it to the pumps 9)pump owners make a small profit these are just the main points in petrol production, theres other like wages etc... lets face it its not the oil companies that are ripping you off it is the government Edited November 23, 2007 by fozza321 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrybaines Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 What i cant understand is how one country can pay so little where another pays so much.http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ Some global economy..... --Biff Off that list I am very confused at the HUGE differnce between the UK and Dublin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomant Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 lets face it its not the oil companies that are ripping you off it is the government As much as I agree with you in relation to the government, the oil companies aren't doing too bad. BP have recently had some problems though... profits were down 26.7 per cent on the third-quarter last year at $4.21 billion. Click Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilco Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 (edited) Wait for the Big Bang chap's. At the moment i have to work 7 Day's to make the same money i used to make in 5 day's,,3 year's ago i was making 5 day's money in 3 day's ,that can't go on something's gonna break. Edited November 23, 2007 by bilco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozza321 Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 As much as I agree with you in relation to the government, the oil companies aren't doing too bad. BP have recently had some problems though... profits were down 26.7 per cent on the third-quarter last year at $4.21 billion. Click Here thats alot of beer tokens, apparently shell makes $800,000 net profit every hour... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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