The cost of petrol

[Miltonroader07]

Some guy was talking last night about fuel costs in the pub, I think he works at Fawley. He said that the answer to fuel costs was easy to sort; just boycott the two big players; for example BP and ESSO. You do need to check where supermarkets get their fuel from, for example Morrisons use ESSO and bring the fuel in their own tankers.

 

So BP and ESSO lose all of their business so what do they do...................... answers on a post card.

 

Apologies for the Sensible Thread.. my medication is starting to work!!!

[Wurzel]

What happens?

My guess is you end up closing down 1000s of privately owned petrol station businesses who happen to be supplied by BP and Esso.

Meanwhile Shell and the others can't keep up with demand so they put up their prices.

Meanwhile BP and Esso sell their surplus stocks to Shell etc so they can keep up with demand at the new higher prices.

Best laid plans and all that.

[trousers]

Biggest hurdle to this working? Apathy.

[Alanh]

Even bigger hurdle is that the vast majority of fuel cost is made up of taxation. Sounds like the bloke in the pub hadn't really thought things through.

 

The real way to reduce fuel (petrol / diesel) costs is to switch to nuclear powered electricity, or hydrogen fuel cells once they are commercially developed.

 

The quickest way to reduce fuel (petrol / deisel) spending is to buy a car with a more efficient engine. The leaps forward in engine technology recently mean that 1.4 and 1.2 engines supplemented with turbo chargers and electric motors can increase fuel economy to something like 60 - 80 mpg and still deliver the sort of power output that at 1.8 litre engine delivered about 10 years ago.

[mcjwills]

Even bigger hurdle is that the vast majority of fuel cost is made up of taxation. Sounds like the bloke in the pub hadn't really thought things through.

 

The real way to reduce fuel (petrol / diesel) costs is to switch to nuclear powered electricity, or hydrogen fuel cells once they are commercially developed.

 

The quickest way to reduce fuel (petrol / deisel) spending is to buy a car with a more efficient engine. The leaps forward in engine technology recently mean that 1.4 and 1.2 engines supplemented with turbo chargers and electric motors can increase fuel economy to something like 60 - 80 mpg and still deliver the sort of power output that at 1.8 litre engine delivered about 10 years ago.

 

This is a great idea if you can afford the the fuel efficient car, unfortunately 90% of the countries drivers cannot. Only ever been rich enough to buy a brand new car once, what with a family and all that.

[LGTL]

Tax is the problem. It costs millions to refine oil.

[Barry Sanchez]

Fuel is overtaxed its as simple as that, that what pays for other things though, when people compare how expensive fuel is in the UK to other nations you have to see what the other Nations get and what they dont for that.

UK=Middle tax but lots of them but lots of benefits for the needy(or not sometimes).

 

I dont have a car(buying one later this year) but drive my wifes who buys a new one every year or so, she got last month a cmax thingy, middle of the road car in fact ****ing boring but its amazing on fuel, I suggest one of those things simply for the consumption alone.