Petrol Prices

[lauralane]

Why when petrol was at something like £1 a litre years back there were protest but now it's at £1.30 there aren't any? Is anyone else finding the cost of petrol just horrendous?

[DTCwordfan]

estimate from the Head of the Retail Dealers was 5p a litre at Easter owing to the escalator being pinned to the RPA. Unless the Government intervenes to undo Messrs Brown/Darling's evil work.

Seen in Brummie. A publicity board in church. "Jesus to rise again at Easter!" Underneath, in glorious graffiti, "Sorry, did I say Jesus? I meant Petrol!"

[Toureman]

here's one............

http://www.theanswerb...g/Question979830.html

[malagabob]

With hauliers gone out and others on the verge and others struggling to stay in business due to the high cost of fuel, couldn^t the government give special preference to them in the way of discounted fuel. Everyone thteoreticaly would benefit from cheaper public transport, stable food prices etc just a thought

[ummmm]

DT - very good.

[eyethenkyew]

Maybe we've just let the barstewards ground us down?

[eyethenkyew]

*grind*

[Groupie]

It was a Labour government then "nuff said"

[Andyvon]

The biggest customer for oil today is China, closely followed by India. Both nations guzzle oil and coal to fuel their industrial expansion as well as the increasingly huge numbers of private cars on their roads. The demand of both countries continues to rise year on year. Also, almost all the world's easily accessible oil has now been recovered and the remaining reserves are harder and more expensive to access.

The continually rising prices we see simply reflect those two underlying factors. Western governments won't admit it as they don't want to 'offend' India or China in the same way as they ignore the fact those countries have almost completely destroyed western economies by taking all our former manufacturing industries. Instead, they just blame former governments and other safe targets and say recovery is around the corner (or 'bumping along the bottom', 'green shoots of recovery' etc)

I really think these continually rising fuel prices are here to stay as oil becomes scarcer and India and China continue to grow. Petrol will probably hit £2 per litre next year and continue to rise after that. The west had better get used to it. Unless someone thinks some magic wand will reverse the world's economy, the reducing oil reserves and the rising oil demand resulting in prices reversing and starting to fall!

[AlBags]

Nat half as bad as lager .. That's about £32 a gallon now!