The Global Warming loons are out of bed again

[Troll]

I must have a large tank filled it up and got 20 fags total = £102.44

like wtf!!!

is it petrol prices or are we just being burned on tax even more than we were?

Not just the UK - noticed that France & Spain diesel was high during my visit

[amcdonald]

I must have a large tank filled it up and got 20 fags total = £102.44

like wtf!!!

is it petrol prices or are we just being burned on tax even more than we were?

Since 2008, prices have gone up by more than 50% for unleaded and still seem to be creeping up

[Ticktock]

is it petrol prices or are we just being burned on tax even more than we were?

Both, as the tax is a percentage of the price. But they have stopped putting the tax rate up for the past couple of years, so the main driver now is the price. Which of course is completely unrelated to the cost of crude oil somehow, unless it's upwards.

[Mich the Tester]

LPG... never took off.

LPG works OK here in NL; plenty of filling points on the motorways, but these days diesel's more popular as it's cheaper than petrol on this side of the sea and diesel engines are vastly improved.

However, LPG has found a new market; company cars that are more than 15 years old are taxed less heavily than newer cars, so there's now a booming market in 15 to 25 year old Jags and Daimlers with LPG installations.

[DimPrawn]

LPG works OK here in NL; plenty of filling points on the motorways, but these days diesel's more popular as it's cheaper than petrol on this side of the sea and diesel engines are vastly improved.

However, LPG has found a new market; company cars that are more than 15 years old are taxed less heavily than newer cars, so there's now a booming market in 15 to 25 year old Jags and Daimlers with LPG installations.

I believe it's because the benefit in kind is based on the list price of the car when it was new. So a E-Type jag company car would be taxed as if it were a £3000 car.

[d000hg]

DP since you didn't post any kind of source/explanation...