Petrol prices

[Von Boy]

watching CNN late last night and they reported that the US Federal Government was ready to lower the tax duty on the petrol pump price. This is due to the highest oil barrel price in history and experts are expecting the price to hit $100 a barrel by mid summer !!!

question

Why can't Gordon "Mr Africa" Brown lower duty and help all of us out ????

!confused!


I bet all he will do is anounce that the tax increase due in sept on fuel has been cancelled.............we will all jump for joy and carry on.................

the needle returns to the start of the song and we all sing along as before !

[Porn crackers]

"Why can't Gordon "Mr Africa" Brown lower duty and help all of us out ????"

Well he still has Africa to .......but seriously there isn't a General Election due. !sad!

The green people would also be a little upset. The USA don't seem to give a dam about that side of things.

PC

[Vosmith]

And he's also doing very nicely with the extra revenue it's bringing into cover the money he's wasted over the last few years.

[strictlybroadband]

Don't blame Gordon that oil prices are rocketing. Oil was always going to start running out and go up in price: blame the dickheads who smashed our railway system, built motorways all over the country and encouraged people to move from cities to suburbs where a car is essential.

Car drivers have been suckered into thinking they could carry on driving forever. The oil price is going up and up whatever happens: the government needs to take a lead with restoring our dead towns and cities, killing out-of-town developments and investing billions to restore public transport to the level that a modern country should expect.

The Americans are fools - they're addicted to oil and cutting duty won't end their addiction. When the oil price doubles again, America will be screwed and the winners will be countries with strong urban centres and good public transport.

[Von Boy]

still doesn't change the fact that the US Fed Government is trying to "help" its citizens when the oil price goes up............we can never expect any help from Gordon " Save the world" Brown........

!sad!

[dynatech]

It IS Gordon Browns fault!
He is a politician and it is politicians who dimantled the rail network, politicians who encouraged mass car use, politicians who have milked motorists for years and politicians who continue to manipulate the bullshit about the environment to fill their coffers and make ordinary people feel guilty for driving a car. In my humble opinion, it is even politicians who have encouraged the school run, when most children walked to and from school safely 20 years ago most parent now think it is a form of neglect not to pick their kids up at the school gates.
I certainly didn't dismantle the rail network and encourage the profileration of road haulage (which is one of the major causes of road polution, wear and tear and accidents) and neither did any of my family, so it wasn't MY fault.
I wouldn't worry about UK car use, if this lot stay in power no-one will have enough of their hard-earned wages left to run one what with all the stealth taxes and legislation we have to put with. We are a tiny insignifficant island anyway, we produce very little (we do very well in exporting jobs though!) despite being vastly over-populated.

[strictlybroadband]

"It IS Gordon Browns fault!
He is a politician and it is politicians who dimantled the rail network, politicians who encouraged mass car use"

Yes, politicians fucked up rail but it was free enterprise: car, oil and road-building companies that created the transport system we live with today. They created the car as a desirable thing to own (look at any car ad). Every car came with a catch: the oil won't last forever. But they forgot to mention that in their rush to make profits out of gullible "consumers".

And yes, politicians were complicit. First in the 60s when half the rail network was closed down, then in the 80s when the car-loving Thatcher government wrecked the remaining public transport and built roads like the M25 to encourage more car use.

Now we're reaping the payback for that love of the car and anyone who drives a car, shops at out-of-town malls and drives to work shares the blame: you can't just turn round now and blame politicians when it was the British public who fell for the lies from the motor industry. Petrol's going to keep rising: the public needs to find a new lifestyle that fits the new reality, and demand some better public transport instead of cheaper petrol.

[Cenobitez]

A friend of mine over at Zentastic Posted about our export and produce and the future of oil and such.

is the link take a look

[dynatech]

This is true also, if you do an electrolysis test on your "safe" tap water it turns a nasty brown colour (In the main, country-wide) to denote solid bacteria or, if you're lucky (?!?) a yellowy brown to show it's been treated with nasty chemicals such as chlorine. This is only going to get worse.
Little wonder folk get ill, when there's SHIT coming out of your taps.

The only decent water filters use the reverse-osmosis filtration system, other types of filter do no good

[davewells]

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