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"Average petrol prices have broken through the 6 quid mark. This impacts on ALL of us. Scandalous!"
Thinking in gallons is pretty scarey now - was 35p a gallon when I learned to drive!!! I learned about conversion cons when decimalisation came about when I was at school. I duly handed my one and a half new pee over for the fare after doing the conversion myself and the conductor asked for another half pence as they were rounding UP the prices. So decimalisation and a price hike!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"whats a gallon?? lol 
Its the quantities of boiling oil Ill be dropping you into you young whippersnapper!!!!!!  "
for the record i am aware of what a gallon is.. just took me by surprise to see it used as a unit of measurement. |
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"whats a gallon?? lol
Its the quantities of boiling oil Ill be dropping you into you young whippersnapper!!!!!!
for the record i am aware of what a gallon is.. just took me by surprise to see it used as a unit of measurement."
Conditioning is a clever tool. We are used to just looking up at the huge bonnie signs that tell us a price and as per litre price climbed sharply up to per gallon price we didnt register. When Spice put it into gallon terms I was shocked!!! |
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£6.00 a gallon is bloody ridiculus but the word is it could be £2.00 a ltre or £10.00 a gallon  .if it ever happens the world would go into a dble dip reccesion and everyone would be out of a job |
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"£6.00 a gallon is bloody ridiculus but the word is it could be £2.00 a ltre or £10.00 a gallon .if it ever happens the world would go into a dble dip reccesion and everyone would be out of a job"
How can everyone be out of a job just because of a double dip recession? We might all go on strike if it goes up to two quid a gallon.
I think we should do as the government wants and all decide to use public transport for the day and leave all cars at home. Then tell the boss we couldnt get in because there was insufficient public transport.
Lets do it on April 1st - who's in? Someone ring The Sun. |
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"£6.00 a gallon is bloody ridiculus but the word is it could be £2.00 a ltre or £10.00 a gallon .if it ever happens the world would go into a dble dip reccesion and everyone would be out of a job"
If someone had said that a couple years ago I would have dismissed them as scaremongering, now I can really see that happening one day. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I think we should do as the government wants and all decide to use public transport for the day and leave all cars at home. Then tell the boss we couldnt get in because there was insufficient public transport.
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The reason there isn't normally enough public transport is because there isn't normally enough demand for more services.
Get a decent flexitime system going and lose the commitment to morning and evening rush hours and life would be a lot better for a lot of folk. |
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"whats a gallon?? lol
fekkin expensive.
shoessssssss i see shoessssssss!!!
off topic sorry, couldnt resist my excitement "
You're gonna need em soon, the price o petrol! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"£6.00 a gallon is bloody ridiculus but the word is it could be £2.00 a ltre or £10.00 a gallon .if it ever happens the world would go into a dble dip reccesion and everyone would be out of a job
If someone had said that a couple years ago I would have dismissed them as scaremongering, now I can really see that happening one day. "
Bagsy Mad Max. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"still waiting on someone inventing an engine that works with cum- we could all save a ruddy fortune !!!!!! as well as enjoying the fill ups lol "
green cum .... erghhh |
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I have a full time job but i also work shifts in a pub as i have a lot of debt which i am paying off, doing the pub shifts is the only way i can do it, the problem now is that at the price of petrol, some shifts are just not worth going in for and im beginning to think i should walk, downside is that i dont fancy that at 1am on friday nights  |
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We are normally happy to travel about a 100 miles for a meet. Is the cost of fuel at present putting people off from travelling the distance they would normally travel? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cut the government tax that we all pay on fuel an we'd see the difference in price! Robbing B******s
Bring on a proper fuel protest an bring the country to its knees thats the answer! |
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"Cut the government tax that we all pay on fuel an we'd see the difference in price! Robbing B******s
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What would you put additional taxes on to make up the shortfall in the Exchequer's income?
VAT?
National Insurance?
Income Tax?
Fags an' bevvy?
Something else altogether? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cut the government tax that we all pay on fuel an we'd see the difference in price! Robbing B******s
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What would you put additional taxes on to make up the shortfall in the Exchequer's income?
VAT?
National Insurance?
Income Tax?
Fags an' bevvy?
Something else altogether?"
No need to tax anything else they get enough revenue as it is. Cut the Exchequer's income maybe???? along with the rest of the politicans???? |
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"Cut the government tax that we all pay on fuel an we'd see the difference in price! Robbing B******s
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What would you put additional taxes on to make up the shortfall in the Exchequer's income?
VAT?
National Insurance?
Income Tax?
Fags an' bevvy?
Something else altogether?
No need to tax anything else they get enough revenue as it is. Cut the Exchequer's income maybe???? along with the rest of the politicans????"
That might very possibly be true but Osborne has factored in the anticipated income from duty etc on fuel.
As far as he's concerned the 'lost' income would have to be made up somewhere else and just saying "they get enough revenue as it is" isn't going to cut it.
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"Cut the government tax that we all pay on fuel an we'd see the difference in price! Robbing B******s
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What would you put additional taxes on to make up the shortfall in the Exchequer's income?
VAT?
National Insurance?
Income Tax?
Fags an' bevvy?
Something else altogether?
No need to tax anything else they get enough revenue as it is. Cut the Exchequer's income maybe???? along with the rest of the politicans????
That might very possibly be true but Osborne has factored in the anticipated income from duty etc on fuel.
As far as he's concerned the 'lost' income would have to be made up somewhere else and just saying "they get enough revenue as it is" isn't going to cut it.
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The government make you pay 58.95p fuel tax on every litre of petrol. Look at this compared to other countries! surely there's room for huge cuts without affecting the Exchequer's income to much????? Problem solved |
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The government make you pay 58.95p fuel tax on every litre of petrol. Look at this compared to other countries! surely there's room for huge cuts without affecting the Exchequer's income to much????? Problem solved"
If only that were the case. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Guess we'll just have to pay what they ask then an put up with it! "
not quite
go on strike,dont use the car,
use public transport. or use a bike like i do gets yeh fit  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We need to spend more money....
on a bigger wall, the current one isn't big enough for all the lawyers, politicians and now bankers
PS: on gallons as a unit of measure, which one, the US or UK one?  Google does a pretty good job of doing conversions for you though! |
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