Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Fighting escalating petrol prices

[antonye]

Getting back to the point though Jools, the people are complaining and want to protest about high fuel prices. The cost of a barrel of oil has little impact on the pump price of petrol - as can be seen in the varying costs of a litre of petrol across both Europe and the rest of the world.

The main cause of the high price of petrol in the UK is the 73% of tax levied on the base price by the Government.

Therefore this has nothing to do with Bush being the President of the US! The consumers in the UK would be paying these prices whether he was the president or not - his appointment haven't made the reserves of oil any smaller!

While I agree that not much is being done limit the fuel economy of cars in the US by the US Government, not every American voted for Bush and I suspect a good deal of those who didn't still drive their big ol' trucks. Again, this is the culture of the Americans and nothing to do with Bush.

So why isn't the UK Government putting the resources into alternative methods of economical transport - buses, trains, motorbikes? Instead they end up making the M25 into 12 lanes to fit more cars on it! And where does that money come from? Fuel tax!

"I reckon they should increase speeding fines so they can lower the fuel tax - that way we get more people into cars to nick for speeding!"