Yes, we already know that we pay too much for fuel, but I still thought this article was interesting...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/bu...2008_fuel_duty/

 

How very true.

The tax we pay on fuel is disproportionate to the CO2 our cars produce and it really is staggering the percentage tax within the cost of UK petrol. I think the fuel companies ought to split out the tax element on the receipts they provide. Your average receipt would then look something like this:

45 litres unleaded @

 

For the government the words:

Fair, Sensible, Logical

Mean:

Terrorist, Taliban, Iraq

What we really need to be saying is how reducing the cost of fuel duty is good for the environment and how it can make them more money.

We'd be onto a winner then, regardless of whether the legislation/red tape created by it would cost tens of billions like every other action the government has taken.

 

All can be understood with one simple premise:

our governments adopt or invent causes to justify more tax.

It doesn't have to be logical, fair, just, or for any good reason at all in fact!

But, to keep the millions of unnecessary bums (aka civil "servants") on their fur-lined seats and to give millions of scientists and academics something to do, the causes have to be justified to keep up the facade of democracy in this country.

All of which wastes a damn sight more resources, green and otherwise, than any other single cause on the planet

 

 

[QUOTE=mikdys,Mar 21 2008, 06:44 PM] I think the fuel companies ought to split out the tax element on the receipts they provide. Your average receipt would then look something like this:

45 litres unleaded @

 

Repost ......

It was posted in one of the 'Budget' threads a week or so ago.

Here

HTH