Not directly related to football, but we all have to get to matches one way or another, Everything we buy to keep us alive, comes on the back of a lorry, the lorry uses fuel, and the tax on that fuel is placed on the products we buy, a vicious circle. Take a look at the link below, and if you agree, fill the form in,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I did. http://freezefueltax.com/
I've filled it in as well. To learn this or any other government a lesson we should have a 2 week general strike starting the 26-09-12. See how much that costs businesses. BTW I will be in Tenerife by then so it wont affect me.
Gil, no need to go as far as a strike to hurt the chancellor/government. A minimal amount of car sharing would do the trick. If everyone shared just one day a week to work or a weekly shopping trip etc., our fuel bill would reduce sufficiently to deprive Osborne of so much duty and VAT his overall income would reduce rather than increase.(not forgetting this would leave more money in our wallets!) The same principal has already been proven with beer duty. Continued increases(by all chancellors and governments) has overpriced it. Result is less purchased and now the amount of duty collected is LESS than it has been in recent years.
The taxation on fuel is an unsustainable policy. They cannot continue to put 3p on a litre every six months and they know it. The one thing IMO that would get this country going again would be reducing petrol back to 75p a litre. The money would be recouped other ways as people would have money to spend. If you look at the cost of utilities since they have been privatised it's an absolute scandal. The criminal waste of money on green energies is another. Our own bloody government is crippling the economy and people's pockets. Plus most of our utilities are owned by foreign companies. Disgraceful. The railways can charge what the like. We need to turn the clock back and think this through. Anyone got a time machine.
I get 20 MPG if I'm lucky which is my choice as I prefer the comfort and safety. The taxes both visible and hidden they hit motorists with are just obscene. I pay £250 road tax and others based on the ridiculous and flawed emissions chart pay practically nowt! How does that work? Do the Mickey Mouse cars wheels not touch the road?
I run two Jaguars and an Audi here in uk, I also have a Vauxhall Vectra 2000 SRI in Holland, I worked hard to have these, nobody gave me them, but sucessive governments, have tried to take my eyeballs out, then the next government comes back for the sockets, worked and paid tax since I was 15, cars are taxed, insured, mot`d, seviced more than the specified shedule reccomended by the dealers. But I dont have a free jaguar courtesy of the British taxpayer. By the way mate I drive all over Europe, my dentist is in Romania. So I understand that using more fuel is better than being fatigued, and possibly being a danger to yourself and other road users. And YOU pay for that fuel.
Sorry to go against the grain here, but global warming is a reality which has to be addressed, and personally I would like to see fuel guzzling cars banned from the roads all together (they are also thought to be the main reason behind the huge increase in child asthma), and fuel prices in other parts of the world raised as high as ours...
Sorry mate BUT, for me to work, Ive got to take tools, all heavy metal, cost on aircraft [ which I make, repair, maintain ] costs over £1000 per flight. times that by two ways. I couldnt work. you want to go on holiday abroad, how do you get there?//////// do you cycle or walk? But in my car . ITS the cost of the fuel and ferry. Sorry dont agree with the greenies. people cant sustain their lives by over the top taxation, Very nice ideal saving the planet, but when theres no one left alive, because they couldnt eat,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Well that debate ends up pointless,,,,,,,,So that arguement is kinda ****ed. And YOU might be doing ok, what about the pensioner who isnt? look outside the box as the yanks say.
It is global warming and climate change that is already causing droughts in some areas and mass flooding in others which is affecting crops etc and causing mass starvation. I do agree that we all have to all think outside the box by taking long-term measures to kerb global population growth, and to also reduce our carbon footprint by cutting our fossil fuel consumption.
Tax: Income tax on money earned(1) Vat on the car you buy(2) Road tax(3) Tax on fuel(4) So to drive on the roads in the UK you pay 4 different types of tax including the highest fuel tax rates in the EU. Congratulations to the government (nt just the Tories as they're all to blame) When I passed my test, fuel was about 205.9p per GALLON It's now nearly triple that price.
Sorry Reg for once completely disagree, none of what you say is based on scientific facts. Just suppositions. You are repeating the claptrap from the likes of Al Gore. (Whose new main source of income is travelling the world scare mongering with no scientific back up.) When Global Warning sceptics give actual scientific facts or point out the errors in the scaremongering. Do the Pro-Global Warming stead fasts reply with scientific facts to disprove the sceptics? Nope they attack the sceptics accusing them of having an agenda or being in the employ of the BIG oil companies. Billions upon billions are spent on pro Global Warming. The most they have managed to accuse the sceptics for the amount spent on denying is £200. Million. On most of that is by innuendo rather than fact! "The FAO report found that current production levels of meat contribute between 14 and 22 percent of the 36 billion tons of "CO2-equivalent" greenhouse gases the world produces every year. It turns out that producing half a pound of hamburger for someone's lunch a patty of meat the size of two decks of cards releases as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as driving a 3,000-pound car nearly 10 miles." A snippet from the Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-greenhouse-hamburger By the way lets kill all pets right now, as they more of a problem than cars. "Though some environmentalists love their dogs more than they love their Sierra Club reusable water bottles, a single dog can have a bigger ecological footprint than an SUV". Read more: http://www.utne.com/Environment/Pets-Global-Warming-Machine-Dogs-Cats-5680.aspx#ixzz24IVeyL2F One of my fellow Mackem's recommended a book by James Delingpole. Watermelons The Green movements true colours. Have to say excellent read, my apologies can't remember who recommended it right now. I haven't finished it yet but have been fascinated by the FACTS that the only ones telling lies about Global Warming are the Pro Global Warming supporters. Even political pressure has been put on scientists to make out things are worse than they are or lose your funding. That is not science that is propaganda. The media loves Global Warming as it gives them better sound bites to scare their viewers and readers. (Sod the facts.)
Nice one, and can anybody actually argue againt these facts, of course they will. But none so blind as those who cannot see.
For those who want to read the details not packaged for indoctrination, rather than the headlines. To learn more about 'global warming', here is a list of skeptical websites: http://wattsupwiththat.com/ http://climatedepot.com/ http://www.drroyspencer.com/ http://www.co2science.org http://www.friendsofscience.org/ http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ http://www.theresilientearth.com/ http://motls.blogspot.com/ British author James Delingpole tells the shocking story of how an unholy mix of junk science, green hype, corporate greed and political opportunism led to the biggest - and most expensive - outbreak of mass hysteria in history. In Watermelons, Delingpole explains the Climategate scandal, the cast of characters involved, their motives and methods. He delves into the background of the organizations and individuals who have sought to push global warming to the top of the political agenda, showing that beneath their cloak of green lurks a heart of red. Watermelons shows how the scientific method has been sacrificed on the altar of climate alarmism. Delingpole mocks the green movement's pathetic record of apocalyptic predictions, from the "population bomb" to global cooling, which failed to materialize. He reveals the fundamental misanthropy of green ideology, "rooted in hatred of the human species, hell bent on destroying almost everything man has achieved". Delingpole gives a refreshing voice to widespread public skepticism over global warming, emphasising that the "crisis" has been engineered by people seeking to control our lives by imposing new taxes and regulations. "Your taxes will be raised, your liberties curtailed and your money squandered to deal with this 'crisis'", he writes. At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. Green on the outside, red on the inside, the liberty-loathing, humanity-hating "watermelons" of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it. Delingpole is the bestselling British writer who helped expose the Climategate scandal in his Daily Telegraph blog. http://www.climategate.com/
Just puchased Watermellons from Amazon, About twelve and a half quid, free postage [ Amazon Prime ] having read 51 reviews, of the book, seems you are bang on the mark, and come Friday when it arrives, I will be able to see for myself.
I was genuinely shocked that the people earning huge amounts of money supposedly to do real scientific research, were actually lying and telling others to lie. PS. Delingpole isn't anti Global Warming! He is still open minded on it. He is anti bad science!
Ive always gone my own way in life, wont be bullied, OK I cant fight a government and win. But I can at least give it my best shot, with my one vote. So roll on Friday, I am going to be a right headache, to my blinkered, greenie boozing pal.
