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    Petrol Prices

    OK, so I realise a large part of petrol prices is tax, but there's something I don't understand.

    How come when crude was $140 a barrel I was paying £1.30 per litre of diesel, and now it's just over $80 I'm now paying £1.20 per litre of diesel?

    Is it the oil companies screwing me or the government or both?
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    Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
    OK, so I realise a large part of petrol prices is tax, but there's something I don't understand.

    How come when crude was $140 a barrel I was paying £1.30 per litre of diesel, and now it's just over $80 I'm now paying £1.20 per litre of diesel?

    Is it the oil companies screwing me or the government or both?
    Both. And I'm screwing your girlfriend.

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      #3
      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
      Both. And I'm screwing your girlfriend.
      Please remember to give her a rinse out when you're done, it's a pain having to disinfect all that rubber and latex.
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          #5
          All that rubber and latex?

          Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
          Please remember to give her a rinse out when you're done, it's a pain having to disinfect all that rubber and latex.
          only a couple of inches, shirely? A wet-wipe would do the job, no?
          Why not?

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            #6
            Originally posted by Dundeegeorge View Post
            only a couple of inches, shirely? A wet-wipe would do the job, no?
            There's all the dried up saliva too
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              #7
              Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
              OK, so I realise a large part of petrol prices is tax, but there's something I don't understand.

              How come when crude was $140 a barrel I was paying £1.30 per litre of diesel, and now it's just over $80 I'm now paying £1.20 per litre of diesel?

              Is it the oil companies screwing me or the government or both?

              Apparently diesel comes from Mexico and there is a world shortage currently because so many car owners have bought diesels. This was in the Mail on Sunday. I still have a petrol car... PHEEEEW!!!!.............. SMUG

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                #8
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                Both. And I'm screwing your girlfriend.
                The 3-timing cow!

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                  #9
                  I read somewhere that petrol should have been around 90p per litre by now but because oil is priced in dollars and the pound has dropped in value against the dollar the pump price remains high.

                  Whoever decided that oil should be priced in dollars is screwing you.
                  Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
                    OK, so I realise a large part of petrol prices is tax, but there's something I don't understand.

                    How come when crude was $140 a barrel I was paying £1.30 per litre of diesel, and now it's just over $80 I'm now paying £1.20 per litre of diesel?
                    You may have noticed there was a tipping point where oil was rising and petrol prices fell slightly. People were cutting back on consumption, the limit of the inelasticity of demand must of been hit for the first time in years. Now as it's falling the price is sticking pretty rigid. What a bunch of theiving expletive deleteds
                    The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

                    But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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