I dont adam & eve it!

[Tricky]

Ive just paid £1.03 per litre for diesel on an ordinary petrol station forecourt what the blinking flip is going on???even at the height of the fuel protests back in 2000 when everyone was panic buying it didnt hit that level,& now thats the standard price!why are we letting the government get away with this without so much as a whimper?no doubt it will go up again when mr **** colour decides he needs more cash out of us

[kortick]

yeah we are being raped and they dont even have the decency to spit on it before they sodomize us, never mind having the decency to give us a reach around i dont know how much that amount translates into us dollars its about $2.62 a gallon here for gas but I have to say I find the terms you use to kill me there are so many phrases you have used that I just love and have never heard before I am going to go thru old posts and make a best of tricky phrase post for everyone to enjoy now if you will all excuse me I have to go make coffee for a 5 year old who is a caffiene addict. He howls at you in the morning for his cup of joe before you send him off to kindergarten. nothing like being waken up by a 5 year old demanding his morning fix. his mother started him on this cuz "it gets him to wake up quicker". I told her we are going to have to put him in detox. right now as i type this he is yelling cuz the coffee I made is done and he isnt getting any. now I have to argue with him as to why he cant have it black, he has to put milk and sugar in it. gas prices and kindergarten kids who whine for caffiene what a world. Im so glad we invaded an oil rich nation so our prices could go up we should be shipping the stuff over here for nothing its called the spoils of war we spoiled your country so we get anything good you have and you have oil , so give it up

[Danny]

...becuase it is a finite fuel source which isnt gonna last much longer, suplly and demand an' all that?

[Tricky]

...becuase it is a finite fuel source which isnt gonna last much longer, suplly and demand an' all that? Thats true but the reserves arent that low yet to justify what we are paying for it,britain has always been the world leader in arse rape fuel prices though

[rightwing401]

The same way you can boil a frog alive. You drop the frog in a pot bubbling from heat, it'll try to jump the hell out the second its skin touches the scaling water. On the flip side, you drop the frog in normal water, and gradually heat it up, you'll kill the sucker. That's the same way the rising gas prices go. If you put it up a little bit every once and a while, you can reach the same point while giving the masses time to adjust to the increase. It's diabolically simple.

[SRP76]

Look no further than the fatcats that control your gasoline/petrol companies. They love to try to blame the government, but that's a load af crap. They say, "oh, OPEC is raising the price of crude from"...oh, let's say..."$40 a barrel, to $80 a barrel! That's why your gasoline is so expensive!". Yeah, okay. That might work with the sheep, but not with me. $40 to $80 is double. I don't care what kind of math you want to use, 80 will always be twice 40. Now, look at your gas price: from $1 a gallon, to $3 a gallon (yes, that's what happened when this started). From 1 to 3 is triple. Hmmmm..... If your crude doubles in price, the petrol doubles, and the gasoline company maintains the exact same profit percentage. The ratio should remain the same. Now, when you triple the price of the gas you're selling, while only paying double price for your crude....WOW, look what happens! RECORD PROFITS! Every damned quarter! For the past 3 years, the gasoline companies have recorded "record profit"...and then broken the record next quarter...then broken that record the next...and on and on. And all the while, people believe their line of B.S., that "it's the government; it's OPEC; it's the one-armed man". Yeah, right. Someone should drag these customer-fleecing bastards out of their penthouses, and slap them senseless. [/rant]

[Danny]

guess with all the "petrol can only stretch so far" campaigning for new energy sources over the last few decades theyve figured "wow, so were gonna have no buisness in 20 years, should we try and develop a new clean energy efficient vehicle?....nah, lets jsut hike the prices up to make triple what we normally would a year in the time we have left" and THEN comes the devious frog in water plan....

[Tricky]

Yes the gas companies do make a huge profit,but even so 80% of the fuel cost in the UK is still tax.I see the billions of pounds britain pisses into the wind in foreign aid,the EU,on asylum seekers,sex changes for weirdos on the NHS,fat cat public sector salaries & pensions,horrible looking "monuments & art projects",benefits for the idle & the workshy,i mean for fooks sake we even pay child support to people working in this country who's kids & family dont even live here!and it just makes me think of the massive tax cuts we could have if someone was strong enough to stand up & just cut all the waste at a stroke.Yes it would ruffle a lot of feathers among those receiving all this money,and they would kick up a stink,but so what?

[MinionZombie]

Yes the gas companies do make a huge profit,but even so 80% of the fuel cost in the UK is still tax.I see the billions of pounds britain pisses into the wind in foreign aid,the EU,on asylum seekers,sex changes for weirdos on the NHS,fat cat public sector salaries & pensions,horrible looking "monuments & art projects",benefits for the idle & the workshy,i mean for fooks sake we even pay child support to people working in this country who's kids & family dont even live here!and it just makes me think of the massive tax cuts we could have if someone was strong enough to stand up & just cut all the waste at a stroke.Yes it would ruffle a lot of feathers among those receiving all this money,and they would kick up a stink,but so what? Basically what's needed is - common sense. Common sense PWNS!!!

[Tricky]

Basically what's needed is - common sense. Common sense PWNS!!! Amen MZ,amen!

[Yojimbo]

Look no further than the fatcats that control your gasoline/petrol companies. They love to try to blame the government, but that's a load af crap. They say, "oh, OPEC is raising the price of crude from"...oh, let's say..."$40 a barrel, to $80 a barrel! That's why your gasoline is so expensive!". Yeah, okay. That might work with the sheep, but not with me. $40 to $80 is double. I don't care what kind of math you want to use, 80 will always be twice 40. Now, look at your gas price: from $1 a gallon, to $3 a gallon (yes, that's what happened when this started). From 1 to 3 is triple. Hmmmm..... If your crude doubles in price, the petrol doubles, and the gasoline company maintains the exact same profit percentage. The ratio should remain the same. Now, when you triple the price of the gas you're selling, while only paying double price for your crude....WOW, look what happens! RECORD PROFITS! Every damned quarter! For the past 3 years, the gasoline companies have recorded "record profit"...and then broken the record next quarter...then broken that record the next...and on and on. And all the while, people believe their line of B.S., that "it's the government; it's OPEC; it's the one-armed man". Yeah, right. Someone should drag these customer-fleecing bastards out of their penthouses, and slap them senseless. [/rant] Agreed. And it goes right down the line from the oil barons right to the jerk-offs running the service station. Every point along the line someone is getting their little bit of payout, whether it be tariffs, or federal taxes, or state taxes, or even on the municipal level (like when a particular city decides to "stop global warming" by levying an additional 10 cent tax at the pump)

[kortick]

can anyone translate the ratio of cost for me what is 1.03 per litre in us dollars and gallons? like i said its about 2.65 per gallon here im cereal can some one do a rough translation?

[MinionZombie]

The roughest translation is Kortick, Brits generally pay twice as much for fuel than you American folks. Also, the everyday cost of fuel is always higher in the UK, than the cost of fuel is in the USA when there is a price hike - i.e. we're the most screwed, so whenever an American bitches about fuel prices, they should stop and think about us poor Brits. I had the facts and figures and did all the translations a few months back when there was a thread about American fuel prices, not sure where it is, can't be arsed to look, but I do remember those two basic facts.

[kortick]

Thankz mz thats all I wanted was a rough translation so if you are paying double then it would be about $5 +/- a gallon here pretty steep dont know how you do it we almost had another revolution when it was $3 at $5 you would have seen bush and cheney flung into a river of snot

[MinionZombie]

I think it was somewhere near/just over $6 per gallon when I did the original conversions in that post I was on about just before. So indeed, spare a thought for us Brits ... still, at least we don't tend to drive gas guzzling SUVs and Hummers and such...but it's still anal rape at the pumps on a daily basis. Plus, European car engines are far more efficient and powerful. It's just fact, ask Jeremy Clarkson.