Says the government with 53p for fuel duty plus 20% VAT on the pre-tax price and a further 11p for VAT at 20% on fuel duty per litre
I wonder how much this situation could be improved if the Government simply put into law that all petrol retailers are required to publish their up-to-date pricing online and via public APIs and fine them horrendously if they are found to publish one price online and another at the forecourt.
Then people would be able to feed this information into websites and apps, forcing them to compete with all other petrol stations in the wider area rather than just those on the same street.
If people could reliably and quickly find where petrol is cheapest, the retailers who don’t want to pass on savings will quickly find themselves with considerably less customers.
Surely the issue is the oil companies not the forecourt’s?
Whenever whole sale prices decrease they create artificial scarcity and it ramps the prices back down.
Back before the summer holidays it was 1.35 a litre.
So “call out” is the same as forcing them to lower their prices?
Great idea now, how about months ago. Give us a break. Let’s play gimmick and make it look like we’re doing something
Like fuck they will, this government doesn’t give a toss about how hard we’re all getting squeezed. They had plenty of opportunities to take some kind of action to help us all, but instead chose to help their rich mates pocket even more of our fucking money. At best, it’s going to be like that bullshit list they did that was supposed to “name and shame” companies who underpaid their staff. It didn’t do shit, and it included instances that had already been rectified internally before being published.
Fuel is all fucking tax anyway. It’s these cunts that made it unaffordable. We have no government. Anyone get their car insurance renewal recently?!! We are being robbed from every angle
The government are really trying to get support from drivers these days. They have frozen fuel duty again, are actively against the 20mph speed limit introduced in Wales, are against ULEZ, and are extending how long ICE cars will be allowed to be sold for. There is no attempt to reach net zero when the Tories are still desperately trying to court drivers and fossil fuel companies to voting for them/donating to the party.
“Tarquin, if you keep taking the piss so obviously, you’ll ruin the gravy train for the rest of us.”
The Issa brothers (Euro Garages) are going to be upset. Boo hoo….
My local garage EG really pisses me off as they always charge 10p extra per litre than the next nearest garage.. they also have super expensive food and as I know one of the staff members they mentioned that they are awful to work for. It’s not a massive dealI can drive an extra 10 minutes but I definitely consider them the worst garage in the area. I recently went to my favourite garage the coop only to discover it had be bought by ASDA along with all the other COOP garages, a bit of a pain but then I discovered that ASDA has been bought by EG who own the garage I hate near mine. So over night the worst garage in the area has taken over all the best garages in the area!
More virtue signalling instead of doing something useful?
Sure sounds like our government to me!
It’s amazing how just the simple step of Asda selling their petrol stations collapsed competition in the market.
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Says the government with 53p for fuel duty plus 20% VAT on the pre-tax price and a further 11p for VAT at 20% on fuel duty per litre
I wonder how much this situation could be improved if the Government simply put into law that all petrol retailers are required to publish their up-to-date pricing online and via public APIs and fine them horrendously if they are found to publish one price online and another at the forecourt.
Then people would be able to feed this information into websites and apps, forcing them to compete with all other petrol stations in the wider area rather than just those on the same street.
If people could reliably and quickly find where petrol is cheapest, the retailers who don’t want to pass on savings will quickly find themselves with considerably less customers.
Surely the issue is the oil companies not the forecourt’s?
Whenever whole sale prices decrease they create artificial scarcity and it ramps the prices back down.
Back before the summer holidays it was 1.35 a litre.
So “call out” is the same as forcing them to lower their prices?
Great idea now, how about months ago. Give us a break. Let’s play gimmick and make it look like we’re doing something
Like fuck they will, this government doesn’t give a toss about how hard we’re all getting squeezed. They had plenty of opportunities to take some kind of action to help us all, but instead chose to help their rich mates pocket even more of our fucking money. At best, it’s going to be like that bullshit list they did that was supposed to “name and shame” companies who underpaid their staff. It didn’t do shit, and it included instances that had already been rectified internally before being published.
Fuel is all fucking tax anyway. It’s these cunts that made it unaffordable. We have no government. Anyone get their car insurance renewal recently?!! We are being robbed from every angle
The government are really trying to get support from drivers these days. They have frozen fuel duty again, are actively against the 20mph speed limit introduced in Wales, are against ULEZ, and are extending how long ICE cars will be allowed to be sold for. There is no attempt to reach net zero when the Tories are still desperately trying to court drivers and fossil fuel companies to voting for them/donating to the party.
“Tarquin, if you keep taking the piss so obviously, you’ll ruin the gravy train for the rest of us.”
The Issa brothers (Euro Garages) are going to be upset. Boo hoo….
My local garage EG really pisses me off as they always charge 10p extra per litre than the next nearest garage.. they also have super expensive food and as I know one of the staff members they mentioned that they are awful to work for. It’s not a massive dealI can drive an extra 10 minutes but I definitely consider them the worst garage in the area. I recently went to my favourite garage the coop only to discover it had be bought by ASDA along with all the other COOP garages, a bit of a pain but then I discovered that ASDA has been bought by EG who own the garage I hate near mine. So over night the worst garage in the area has taken over all the best garages in the area!
More virtue signalling instead of doing something useful?
Sure sounds like our government to me!
It’s amazing how just the simple step of Asda selling their petrol stations collapsed competition in the market.