Reply to: BOOMED : Petrol price falls to three-year low

[AtW]

For once I agree with you. Happy New Year AtW

I am actually Brillo.

[Paddy]

There is less CO2 from diesels, a lot less - this is reflected in lower road tax (which is good thing).

All that particulate bull does not justify higher price - there are particulate filters in modern diesels anyway.

It's all about revenue - HMRC were tulip scared that people started shifting to diesels, so they had to (from their point of view) start increasing diesel fuel duty as less overall fuel will be used as more and more people switch to diesel. One would imagine it is a good thing (CO2 wise and also not giving money to backwards countries that use them against the West), but no - tax reasons are higher than national security ones.

For once I agree with you. Happy New Year AtW

[BrilloPad]

Step 2...invade France

Step 3....find something to do on the third day after the French surrender

Invade Italy? Should only take a few hours.

[PM-Junkie]

So do we. Maybe we can help each other out?

Step 1 : round up all Russians living in Britain as informants.....

Step 2...invade France

Step 3....find something to do on the third day after the French surrender

[PM-Junkie]

Wars dont actually benefit those involved...

Er, what? War has been the basis of US economic planning for over 60 years. They seem to have done pretty well out of it too, until the last few months.

[BrilloPad]

Russia needs another war to perk them up a bit.

So do we. Maybe we can help each other out?

Step 1 : round up all Russians living in Britain as informants.....

[Solidec]

Wars dont actually benefit those involved though, they just suck more and more money into wasted resource (things that blow up dont generate wealth or maintain residual asset value).

A war is basically a giant bonfire of burning money, one of the reasons Britain is so close to bankruptcy.

Every shot down plane,
is money down the drain.
Every bomb detonated,
is zero wealth generated.
etc
etc

[Doggy Styles]

Russia needs another war to perk them up a bit.

[Liability]

He is not stupid when it comes to things natural for dictators - taking over all power when chances presents itself, however he is not very smart when it comes to economics - his PhD that he wrote (aboit oil prices actually) was proven to have been plagiarised from foreign source

He made strategic mistake by becoming Prime Minister and then saying things (like few months ago) that crisis does not exist in Russia, now rouble is being devalued pretty rapidly - all this will hit him next year, so I reckon they will throw away mask of democracy and go full dictatorship very soon.

just sit back and wait - Russia will be collapsing like a sack of tulipe by September at the latest - how much money can they keep pumping in from the reserves -which are dwindling by the DAY.....only thing that will save them is Oil above $80.

[AtW]

He's a liar and a criminal but he isn't stupid.

He is not stupid when it comes to things natural for dictators - taking over all power when chances presents itself, however he is not very smart when it comes to economics - his PhD that he wrote (aboit oil prices actually) was proven to have been plagiarised from foreign source

He made strategic mistake by becoming Prime Minister and then saying things (like few months ago) that crisis does not exist in Russia, now rouble is being devalued pretty rapidly - all this will hit him next year, so I reckon they will throw away mask of democracy and go full dictatorship very soon.

[Mich the Tester]

Putin is a liar and an idiot - he is very good at killing political opponents and blowing up houses though.

Gas is linked to oil and it just takes 6-9 months for oil drops to feed into price of gas - notice how he is worried about gas price, that's because he is a secret stakeholder in Gasprom.

He's a liar and a criminal but he isn't stupid.

[AtW]

Maybe because Russia doesn't want it to.

Link to BBC Report.

Putin is a liar and an idiot - he is very good at killing political opponents and blowing up houses though.

Gas is linked to oil and it just takes 6-9 months for oil drops to feed into price of gas - notice how he is worried about gas price, that's because he is a secret stakeholder in Gasprom.

[Mich the Tester]

Maybe because Russia doesn't want it to.

Link to BBC Report.

Putin

[Scotchpie]

Considering how much the price of oil has dropped and since the gas companies claimed that their prices were rising as the gas price is pegged to oil it's reasonable to question why the gas price hasn't dropped considerably recently.

Maybe because Russia doesn't want it to.

Link to BBC Report.

[dang65]

While drivers are benefiting, however, no gas and electricity customers have benefited so far from the plunging oil and gas prices on the wholesale market.

There is mounting pressure on the 'big six' energy suppliers to announce a price cut in the New Year.

How about all those transport companies that have spent the last few years putting up their prices every few days to compensate for fuel price increases? Are they dropping their prices now?

Hopefully we can look forward to a little less whining from "hard-pressed motorists" now as well. They might even be able to afford the parking prices now.