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trousers

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8 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Shell isn't limited. I stuck £130 of petrol V-power in last week.

#accidentalpartridge

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Turkish

Turkish

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Is't over 50% of the cost of fuel tax these days? With VAT being applied after fuel duty so we are being taxed on the tax. 

 

 

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AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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26 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Is't over 50% of the cost of fuel tax these days? With VAT being applied after fuel duty so we are being taxed on the tax. 

 

 

Got tax people out of driving ffs!

Turkish

Turkish

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7 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Got tax people out of driving ffs!

What better way to force electric cars on people than to make driving petrol/diesel ones too expensive......

skintsaint

skintsaint

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Filled up the missus' Jeep the other day, $183 AUD......remember when first buying the thing it was around $120 and bitching about how much it was back then!

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swannymere

swannymere

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2 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Hungary has the lowest fuel prices in Europe. €1.241 per litre for Euro-super 95.

Yep, but you have to live in Hungary.

Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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43 minutes ago, swannymere said:

Yep, but you have to live in Hungary.

The report I saw said that sales were restricted to Hungarian registered vehicles. This may be against EU market regulations

Mustang Saint

Mustang Saint

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On 10/06/2022 at 21:30, badgerx16 said:

Petrol station in Chelsea selling petrol at 238.9 and diesel at 249.9 per litre.

Reason I've gone electric, cost me £7.82 on my current tariff for 280 miles range.

 

 

Turkish

Turkish

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4 minutes ago, Mustang Saint said:

Reason I've gone electric, cost me £7.82 on my current tariff for 280 miles range.

 

 

Im going to be looking into this when i change my car. The only thing that concerns me is the battery range. Think a hybrid would suit me better. Are the claims that the TCO is significantly lower? 

buctootim

buctootim

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5 hours ago, Turkish said:

Im going to be looking into this when i change my car. The only thing that concerns me is the battery range. Think a hybrid would suit me better. Are the claims that the TCO is significantly lower? 

If you get a plug in hybrid (PHEV) you get the best of both. 

Turkish

Turkish

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16 minutes ago, buctootim said:

If you get a plug in hybrid (PHEV) you get the best of both. 

That seems to be the best option. Got a charging point in the new house we moved to a couple of months ago. 

Klaus Schwab

Klaus Schwab

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If any of you own your own business then electric cars are a good option. 
 

100% tax deductible (last time I checked) as long as they have a decent range. 250+ miles I think. 
 

You also get a charge point for home and work. 

Turkish

Turkish

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Exxon Mobil announce profits of $5.5b in their first quarter, double from last year same period. 

theyre all loving this fuel crisis
 

 

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Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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Not that Rishi is in too much of a rush to do anything about it, except some platitudes and a token 5p discount.  Prices rise, VAT take rises accordingly, so he can easily cover the interest rate fiasco just by doing fuck all about petrol prices!

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whelk

whelk

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35 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

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Not that Rishi is in too much of a rush to do anything about it, except some platitudes and a token 5p discount.  Prices rise, VAT take rises accordingly, so he can easily cover the interest rate fiasco just by doing fuck all about petrol prices!

Don’t forget we are soon to have have a massive tax cut thanks to Sunak. The cut that partially undoes the increase they piled on at a perilous time for many. No other country has increased taxes on people when everything is going through the roof.

Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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Just now, whelk said:

Don’t forget we are soon to have have a massive tax cut thanks to Sunak. The cut that partially undoes the increase they piled on at a perilous time for many. No other country has increased taxes on people when everything is going through the roof.

Like the 5p he gave us for petrol?  The one that doesn't really give us a tax cut at all as the first 58p of every litre is 'fuel duty', but we pay VAT on 'fuel duty' (double tax whammy!), so we were paying 11.6p VAT on the fuel duty before we were given the generous 5p (temporary?) discount, meaning we currently only pay 6.6p tax on the fuel duty tax 😲

Welcome to Britain where we pay tax on our taxes - not sure why asylum seekers travel half way round the world to 'safety' for those benefits.

whelk

whelk

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2 hours ago, skintsaint said:

$10 a lettuce in some parts of Aus right now. Even KFC have started replacing it with cabbage in their burgers.

TBH lettuce is the one thing I don’t really care how much it costs but that price seems mental

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Dr Who?

Dr Who?

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Had my email this morning from EDF telling me that my monthly DD is going from £235 to £370 a month from the end of June. That's nice of them. 

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badgerx16

badgerx16

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1 hour ago, Dr Who? said:

Had my email this morning from EDF telling me that my monthly DD is going from £235 to £370 a month from the end of June. That's nice of them. 

Is that domestic or commercial ? Ours has gone from £66 to £124.

Turkish

Turkish

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2 hours ago, Dr Who? said:

Had my email this morning from EDF telling me that my monthly DD is going from £235 to £370 a month from the end of June. That's nice of them. 

bloody hell, are you cooling down the house with your fridge?

StDunko

StDunko

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1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Is that domestic or commercial ? Ours has gone from £66 to £124.

Yeah, mine jumped from £51p/m to around £120p/m. But there is only me and the Mrs at home.

I have heard friends that have domestic bills of c.£300p/m and I just can't understand how the hell they are using so much energy. Perhaps they're running a bit-coin mine in their shed?

whelk

whelk

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I just went to buy an 3 apples and the greengrocer said “that will be £47 please”. Fucking Brexit and that cunt Putin

whelk

whelk

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3 hours ago, Dr Who? said:

Had my email this morning from EDF telling me that my monthly DD is going from £235 to £370 a month from the end of June. That's nice of them. 

That is a heavy old bill. Do you own a stately home?

kyle04

kyle04

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28 minutes ago, whelk said:

I just went to buy an 3 apples and the greengrocer said “that will be £47 please”. Fucking Brexit and that cunt Putin

Dear o dear - it's "grocer of colour" now.

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egg

egg

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2 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Is that domestic or commercial ? Ours has gone from £66 to £124.

Ours went from £82 to £170. Month to month meter readings last month was £105. 3 people in the house. No heatingbon, no tumble dryer, general light use. 

badgerx16

badgerx16

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20 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Fucking hell,I can’t believe how cheap your bills are. We’re a house of 4 and we’re paying £506 a month for our DD. 

It's your cannabis farm that's causing the problem 😉

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whelk

whelk

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55 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

It's your cannabis farm that's causing the problem 😉

I assumed he was an old bastard who has the heating on 24/7

trousers

trousers

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3 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Fucking hell,I can’t believe how cheap your bills are. We’re a house of 4 and we’re paying £506 a month for our DD. 

Maybe try harnessing some of your hot air rather than posting it on here...?* 

(*Banter)

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Patrick Bateman

Patrick Bateman

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8 hours ago, Dr Who? said:

Had my email this morning from EDF telling me that my monthly DD is going from £235 to £370 a month from the end of June. That's nice of them. 

Are they building up your positive balance ahead of the autumn rises?  Mine is £250/month with Bulb and I'm only building a small balance during warm weather.  The standing charges are ridiculous and I fully expect it to be easily another £100+ a month from the Autumn.  For reference it's a 1970ish detached home, with 7 external walls due to some weirdly shaped bizarre extension that was done in the early 80s which does nothing for my energy efficiency ... (and I think the insulation is crap too)

Mustang Saint

Mustang Saint

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On 14/06/2022 at 10:52, Turkish said:

Im going to be looking into this when i change my car. The only thing that concerns me is the battery range. Think a hybrid would suit me better. Are the claims that the TCO is significantly lower? 

My EQB is quoted as 268 mile range, I'm averaging about 20 less than that, works fine for us as we do very low mileage, last car we did 3500 in 6 months. If you're doing low mileage then hybrid is ideal. Much more than 30 miles a day and it's pointless as you're back to using fuel. I know that sounds contradictory but I also run my own business so BIK is 2%, no road tax and 130% write off against corp tax.

Mustang Saint

Mustang Saint

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14 hours ago, Dr Who? said:

That is gas and electric. A lot of people have said it is very high. We are a family of 5 but one is at uni. 

Family of 6, 6 bed house, 3 freezers and an electric car £196 last month for gas and electric. Do you all have a hot tub or something?

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Turkish

Turkish

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1 hour ago, Mustang Saint said:

Family of 6, 6 bed house, 3 freezers and an electric car £196 last month for gas and electric. Do you all have a hot tub or something?

We are a family of 3, we moved to a new build 4 bed detached in April but yet to get a bill from Eon yet. Were paying £170 a month in our last house, 1930s 3 bed semi. No idea what i should be expecting but we've barely used to heating since been here and got a combi boiler now. 

Lord Duckhunter

Lord Duckhunter

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4 hours ago, Mustang Saint said:

Family of 6, 6 bed house, 3 freezers and an electric car £196 last month for gas and electric. Do you all have a hot tub or something?

Snap dragon has hot tub, but according to the in home display it’s about £1 a day when on a normal cycle. 

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