Wtf?

[Sockpuppet]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6416385.stm

Fuel companies **** up so we have to have a few more pence on the litre?

Whats the betting that diesel also rises at the same time even though its not affected.

[threaded]

I love the bit where they admit that routine tests on petrol don't look for contamination by diesel.

So, what exactly do these routine tests consist of?

"Oy's be looking at a milk bottle of stuff from the petrol pump and it be looking like petrol Mr Wilkes."

"Ei, that'll be good enuf lad."

[wendigo100]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6416385.stm

Fuel companies **** up so we have to have a few more pence on the litre?

Whats the betting that diesel also rises at the same time even though its not affected.

Market forces - if you don't like the increase, don't buy the fuel.

[AtW]

Demand for some products like fuel, sugar, salt is not elastic (look this word up if you don't know what it means), that's why all Finance Ministers around the world love to tax them because it is very easy to predict tax revenue: you can also tax lots because you know people won't stop buying these goods.

So when it comes to price of fuel the only person that should be b1tched at is Gordon the Thief - his share of the price is much higher than anyone else's and he does not drill for oil, does not process it, does not transport it, does not take risks of having contaminated fuel etc.