AA Zone

A while back I had a discussion with the CEO of Morrisons super market. After reading a billboard on the forecourt of their Stamford store which proudly bragged about how they were reducing the price of their fuel, obviously implying that they were being really good eggs towards their customers by selling them fuel at the cheapest possible price. Yet only approx 10 miles away you could buy petrol from their Peterborough store for upto 3p a litre less. More competition in Peterborough you see, so can't get away with the higher prices. Not being quite such good eggs were they.

I was a little p1$$ed off about this implied act of chivalry so I tried to get Morrisons to adopt a nation wide common price for their fuel. After all, their food is the same price which ever store you buy it from, so why isn't their fuel?

Not surprisingly I didn't get very far with this one. Apparently, according to the CEO, because they have a policy of being the most competitive fuel retailer in their respective areas, to adopt a nationwide common fuel price would lead to some stores having to sell fuel at below cost. Have you ever heard such a load of cr@p!!! I don't know about your area, but Morrisons are rarley the cheapest in mine. So that blows their CEO's explanation out of the water straight away.

My point is this, I do wish retailers would be honest with their customers. Instead of leading their customers to believe that they are selling them their goods at the cheapest price possible, why don't they admit that they are selling their goods at the highest price that they can possibly get away with?

Apologies for being naive and idealistic, but thanks for reading.

I am not a member of the AA organisation. But even if I was, I dont think there is a lot that I can do by myself about the Gov taking 65% of the price of Petrol in tax. Apart from send the odd email now and again asking for explanations and changes. Then sit back and read the lies, sorry, I meant replies.

I am afraid we are now paying the price for years of inaction as we sat back and watched our Government line its pockets with the introduction of the fuel tax escalator, but did nothing about it.

The country is in so much of a financial mess and the Government has become so dependent upon the fuel revenue that they well never be able to, nor will they want to reduce it to an acceptable level.

The amount they take per litre also puts them in a position which makes it impossible for them to make the fuel companies reduce prices. If they tried, I am sure the fuel companies would be chanting 'Hypocrisy' with a justified vigour.

Even if there were to be mass demonstrations the like of which this country has never see before, the best we could ever hope for would be a lenghty freeze of duty of perhapse a promise to never raise duty again. Promised with their fingers crossed behind their backs of course.

So my dear, I'm afraid we are going to have to get used to being ripped off by all involved with the supply of fuel, and one by one we will all join you pedalling down the road. Except for MPs, cos they don't have to pay for fuel.

Unless anyone out their has got a 'cunning plan'

There is little point in talking to the politicians. Their job is to tax us to death. Note how quick they were to respond with "Green Taxes" but I still waiting for them to say "Huge reward to the inventor that comes up with a clean portable energy source that can replace fossil fuels".
I have been driving with a Hydrogen generator in my car, that I made myself, for over a year. It gives me abour 100 - 150 more miles to a tank in my turbo diesel Astra.
My neighbour bought a manual from the internet and lent it to me.
Not sure where he got it from, but he made a manual himself that he tries to sell on www.mileagebooster.co.uk.
He does not seem to get many takers though. Guess most people are suspicious of new ideas.