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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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why, if oil prices have been relatively stable since the end of 2008, why petrol prices are still going up?
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:23, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

It's a percentage thing, so the majority of the price is tax and duty, so a very small increase of 10p in crude oil price means actually a whole lot more at the end of a hose when everyone's lumped their whatever percent on top.
Or not that.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:36, Reply)

And the government realised that we're the sort of daft twats that will keep paying high levels of duty without doing anything about it.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:25, Reply)

Not by the 60p that petrol has climbed since 2008/2009.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:26, Reply)

Plus VAT is charged on the whole lot so any increase is multiplied, a tax on a tax.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:28, Reply)

like back in the day.
Remember how bad it was when fuel hit one pound a litre?
Fuck's sake.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:29, Reply)

but I can't afford it, however I don't moan about it.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:35, Reply)

Mostly because I'm paying nearly twice the amount at the pumps than I was five years ago, for no discernable reason.
We're not at peak oil, there is no shortage, the price per barrel is low and duty hasn't really increased enough to justify the price per litre on its own.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:38, Reply)

Then again, he says some other really weird shit, so I tend to ignore him...
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:40, Reply)

Peak oil is predicted somewhere between now and 2020.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:43, Reply)

You'd kill your mother to get hold of fuel that price now.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:35, Reply)

Sadly, it broke down and caught fire a couple of weeks ago (not because of the LPG, I hasten to add)
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:45, Reply)

a tankful of diesel was £35.
Golden days...
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:47, Reply)

...and I used to fill up at an Esso station near Stratford, because it was only 59.9p per litre
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:49, Reply)

as far as I can see.
Also, because we have to pay for the Meerkans being fucktards over Deepwater Horizon somehow.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:32, Reply)

Or are you just being facetious?
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:34, Reply)

I though all the oil companies did this shit through futures trading or sutin. I dunno.
Companies paying massive fines has a fair bit to do with it, aye
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:36, Reply)

that makes the price go up.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:41, Reply)

Or do I imagine this kind of shit?
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:42, Reply)

then split it up and sell it on for a profit, thats bought by hedge funds etc, they mix and match and sell it on for a profit, then other people do it again. By the time it's actually sold to the refiners a dozen people/entities have taken a cut.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:46, Reply)

Middlemen are the problem.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:53, Reply)

it seems that we must have the same conditions for natural, renewable energy production in Scotland that they have in Norway, so surely we could wean ourselves off fossil fuels in a matter of decades?
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:34, Reply)

and don't give me that shit about electric cars. They're for girls and gays. I need throbbing pistons under my bonnet. I'm not gay I swear.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:36, Reply)

but if we ran our mains electricity from natural sources, there'd be more fuel around for petrol.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:37, Reply)

Oil that could be used to make more (and therefore cheaper) petrol, if the power stations ran on something else.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:43, Reply)

( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:44, Reply)

It's easily the best solution, but people are so fucking paranoid over it.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:47, Reply)

Run it as a non profit making out of the dept of energy and sell the electricity off to the private sector.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:47, Reply)

Which you can get from electrolysing water.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:40, Reply)

Which is a little low for our requirments.
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:42, Reply)

And most green energy in Norway is hydro.
Plus, we're obsessed by wind and wave/tidal power. Which is, to use a scientific term, "fucking shit"
( , Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:39, Reply)
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