Richieh

It's the gov that put the price on. What they spend the revenue on is besides the point (lets not get sidetracked) but it's currently a tax on those that live a long way from work, friends or family.

steve_the_greek

I agree.
Isn't it about 75-80% of the price of petrol goes to the government ?
Sure, petrol companies are greedy, but the main problem is tax.

rahula

Steve is right guys. The cost of oil has risen recently but as soon as war starts I am sure it will drop back down again. This is just tension and at the end of the day we are paying nearly 55p per litre to the government so they can fight a war, run hospitals, have more schools, more police, more teachers bullshit. They don't even spend more than 10% from road tax on roads or road traffic education.......Arrggggggggggg please don't get me started on this tax thingy.....

40% tax, 10% NI, 17.5% vat, 80% petrol tax, 49% alcohol duty, 66% tobacco duty. What are we missing? Oh yeah I now remember. Good roads, good public transportation, well equipped schools and not enough police officers or doctors or hospitals.......go figure.

moor deybe

This is what happened at the start of the gulf war. So hopefully prices will drop soon, when the war starts officially

bigfecker

it says "and buy your petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso"

I thought Sainsbury's petrol was BP???

garethrees

If only it was still this price, I just paid 135.9p per lt for Optimax!!!

MB

jimmyb1978

ahh 89p, the good old days. I remember paying 50p a litre when I first ever filled up

Simon W

The price per litre now is the same price I used to pay per gallon when I started driving.

richmc

We could play, guess the age of the poster, just give an age and price per Gallon or Litre to work out how old are they now.

Me first 20 Years old 27p per gallon (four star).

And a guess at what they were driving.