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I agree with you, I can see no reason why Diesel should be dearer then petrol unless the goverment is ripping off the motorist again.

Just a little note from the other site of the North Sea. In Holland dieselprices are about 1 euro per litre, so only slightly cheaper than at your site. But do you have any idea how much roadtax we have to pay for a dieselcar? For my Volvo V70 D5 the roadtax is EUR 353 per 3 month so 1.412 per year. If it were a petrol car, the roadtax would be EUR 188 per 3 month. So your government could still learn a lesson or two from ours!
And then we have a special tax on new cars, called BPM. For a Volvo D5 automatic that amounts to EUR 16.000, apart from 6.000 VAT. This pushes the basic price of 31.000 to a listprice of 53.000 !
Maybe this is something to remember next time you fill up your car with expensive diesel fuel.
Enjoy driving (as long as you can!)

Diesel prices should be no more than petrol. The tax is only 2p more than on petrol at the pumps, and diesel costs less to refine. Another scam as suppliers and the Goverment realise that less diesel is used per mile than petrol cars, so they will glean less in revenue per litre used. Motoring groups must be more proactive on behalf of the diesel car user to eliminate this scam.

As a company we have been paying less per litre for derv from the big companies.
Look at the FTA web site for the Derv price and it is below 80ppl yet forecourt prices are going up and up. Tesco's, Asda's etc are now getting close to the normal retailers on price. Is there some price fixing going here I think...

I agree the price situation for diesel is strange condsidering the price of the basic oil. I use http://www.petrolprices.com to find the cheapest price . For example today the dearest price in Newcastle is 104p and the cheapest 97.50 - every little helps!!!!

People will stop using their cars as much and that in turn willl lead to even less new cars being purchased. The Government should encourage us to use our cars more in the current credit crunch by lowering the tax on diesel and petrol. This wi;; in turn assist the ailing car industry

It amazes me how clever the people who can brainwash us with fuel prices. Remember when fuel went up to 115p (in the North) we where all kicking and screaming but when the fuel reduced to 110p we where happy with the reduction. It amazes me how clever these people are to get the nation to think that by reducing the cost of fuel we are happy, how long ago was it since our fuel has been less than 75p.


We as a company do provide a cost effective solution to the fuel issue. We sell kits from £220 with no ongoing costs (unlike LPG etc) which as many people are saying is "is too good to be true" However with no formal advertising we have over 3000 satisfied customers who are increasing their mpg by around 25% and this is showing to be a minimum increase. Emissions are also reducing by a min of 40%.

This isn't meant as a plug for my business this is purly here to show the world that there are things out there to ease the burden. Our product is one of the few that does actualy save you money from the ofset.

Fuel prices are designed to rip off the motorists as much as the government can possibly rip us off for. Thw question I would like answered by our weak, spineless politicians is....When VAT was intriduced to replace the then called "PURCHASE TAX" why was VAT added without removing the cost of purchase tax first because the pric did not alter did it mr tax the people man. Tell you what guys, if everyoe stuck together and stood up to these muppets something may be done about the cost of fuel. Its just TAX TAX TAX Another question,, When our Prime minister Mr Gordon Unemployment Brown went to one of his meetings (Expensive dinner parties) for the summit, Did he pay to fill the BA aircraft with fuel that took him there out of his own pocket, o h no guys it was the TAX TAX TAX that paid for it, the tax we pay on fuel. Many people got pissed off with Mrs Thatcher closing the mines but as Gordon two faced Brown as he sucks his bottom lip everytime he takes a breath he is getting closer to the end of this once rich and growing country.

Everyone unite to reduce taxes on petrol, deisel, food, gas, lecky,VAT, income tax, ROAD TAX Mmmmm i wonder, and to scrap the TV licence cuz most of the rubbish aint worth the time of day oh and scrap the fishing licence too. Well we might as well add that one to make up the numbers.

Join the "AXE THE TAX" campaign .

Dont forget......VAT will go back to 17.5% in December.....Browns cronies will rake at least another 2p per litre in ...I bet they dont take off the 2p they put on to compensate for their tax loss when they dropped the VAT.....that means taxrises of 6p a litre in 12 months ...2 rises which were backdoor rises so no one realised they had done it ................

All the hype and fuss is over about the fuel prices dropping and the retailers/government and the oil producers are now slyly putting prices back up, regardless of the current universal climate of low interest rates,lack of employment and the hopeless situation that every country is in at the moment. Its been done because no one is actually sitting up and taking notice. Its called greed! Its called a lack of respect! Its called a lack of regulatory rules to stop these unscrupulous money grabbing people from getting their own way.
Diesel is a bigger pollutant than unleaded(apparently) thats why it's more expensive, although, diesel is more economical than unleaded(apparently), there are also more companies using diesel than unleaded on the whole, therefore an easier target.
But hey what the hell do I know, I'm just a stupid driver that buys the stuff and doesn't start another campaign to force companies to bring down the prices in line with deflation<shrugs>

Of course you are all correct. You are being horrendously ripped off. This is nothing new. But whinging will do no good. The ONLY time it will change is when people make it a political/voting issue. The jobs of politicians must be seen to be threatened. Or perhaps another fuel tax protest as in the year 2000. Stop whinging and "DO SOMETHING TO HELP YOURSELVES". Otherwise it will get continuously worse, as in Holland. Check out the conservative web page and you will find they are proposing to do nothing for this Country"s motorists. You have no friends in Westminster. The only way you are ever going to be treated fairly is by taking forcefull action yourselves. The politicians do not deserve any better, you do. If no party will represent your interests then there is no one to vote for. What is left is civil disobedience and mass boycott of elections.