This is pretty fucking peevy.
This morning I paid £1.10 a litre for petrol.

Here's what really "grinds my gears,"

Take away VAT at 17.5% and we have 93.6 pence a litre.

Take away Fuel Oil Duty at 53 pence a litre (wasn't it nice of the Chancellor to postpone the increase until October?)

And the price of petrol without tax is...

40.6 pence.

The Yanks (hi, guys!) are worried about hitting 5 Dollars a gallon. Two weeks ago the average price at the pump in America was $3.58 a gallon. That's 48 pence a litre. I am mildly annoyed.

Oh, and an aside: By 2010 the tax on my 7 seat Family Wagon will be £455. I don't drive it to show off my pay packet, or to compensate for a tiny cock (the three kids in the back are proof enough).
"Three children? Seven seats? Surely an extravagance!"

You find me a normal sized car that will fit myself, my wife and the kids in their LEGALLY REQUIRED CHILD SEATS. Oh, and there needs to be enough space that we can go on a long journey (Public Transport with children is not really all that feasible) without the youngest spilling Ribena on the oldest, who takes revenge by upending the whole bottle on bottle on both his brothers.

n.b. My wife doesn't legally require a child seat. She just likes it that way.
(FurtiveBiscuit, Sat 3 May 2008, 5:37, 3 replies)

Agreed
Britain is one of the most taxed nations on earth. What really gets me though is that their is no choice at the ballot box. Which ever of the scum bags you vote for none of them will ever do anything to benefit anyone but themselves. Fuel duty is a joke.
Oh and i share your pain. I have a diesel
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Sat 3 May 2008, 9:30, closed)

just be thankfull you don't drive a van...
like what i do.

the other day i put £15 quids worth of diesel in and only got 11.81 litres.

work that one out...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 3 May 2008, 13:09, closed)

Yep
you can't do it without resorting to the people carrier. My husband always hated them but when we had our 3rd we had to give in to the galaxy.
Which is now knackered anyway. Apparently berlingos you can get 3 in but they are a tad ugly.
( moogy boobles, Sat 3 May 2008, 14:03, closed)