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05-29-2008, 07:02 AM
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#226 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Sod the crops Dan, burn the f-in politicans | 
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05-29-2008, 09:13 AM
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#227 | | Senior Member
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Country: | demand for oil from china and india to blame for high oil prices so the bbc news says.
very well said plan d i bought a diesal zafira 8 months ago cost £50 to fill up it cost me £72 this morning.
thank you very much gorden brown but hey you didnt raise income tax, just all the other taxes around it and then invented lots of new ones
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05-29-2008, 01:07 PM
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#228 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | Oil pirates I believe, it's 4.23 a gal............rip-offs making billions on the worlds folk | |
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05-29-2008, 01:37 PM
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Country:  | 9ZAR/l here ($1.4/l), UK is getting ridiculous price wise at the moment - the tax on petrol is at like 188%. Did read somewhere though that the price of oil in Venezuela is ~20 US cents a litre...
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05-29-2008, 01:43 PM
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#230 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by Gnomey  Did read somewhere though that the price of oil in Venezuela is ~20 US cents a litre... | True - but the average Venezuelan makes only $2000 USD a yesr.
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05-29-2008, 01:44 PM
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Country: | True but that is also roughly the average wage of most of the countries surrounding South Africa and most of them have higher fuel prices than here in SA...
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05-29-2008, 02:07 PM
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#232 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by Gnomey True but that is also roughly the average wage of most of the countries surrounding South Africa and most of them have higher fuel prices than here in SA... | That's crazy!
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05-30-2008, 12:34 AM
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#233 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Going for over R10 a liter here due to the inflation. Bloody ANC screwing us middle class people all over again.
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05-30-2008, 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Gnomey True but that is also roughly the average wage of most of the countries surrounding South Africa and most of them have higher fuel prices than here in SA... | Amen Gnomey.
Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia pays less for petrol/gas than we here in SA. We produce petrol out of coal and gas, but we sell it to other countries for cheaper and import again.
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05-30-2008, 12:40 AM
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Country:  | today morning: Diesel 2,25 $ per litre 
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05-30-2008, 06:53 AM
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Country: | Mr.Brown did raise the income tax for the vast majority of the British public. Sure, he lowered the income tax to 20% but then removed the 10% tax bracket. He gave with one hand then took even more with the other.
I can't stand Brown I think he's a fat, greedy, lazy, dumb sh*t, wobbly gob, jock, tw@t... and that's being nice. But then the whole British solution to problems is tax.
British people drink too much. Solution - Tax alcohol more.
British people (apparently) drive too much. Solution - Increase fuel and road tax.
British people are killing the planet. Solution - Tax everything that could possible harm the planet.
British people are fat. Solution - Tax.
British people are enjoying themselves, spending too much. Solution - Tax
Now, if the British government had a clue in it's tiny collection of tiny minds it'd hunt down the route cause of these problems...
Britain drinks a lot because we are over-worked. We, as a nation, work some of the longest hours in Europe (if not the world). We are worked until we've got one foot in the grave. All we have to look forward to is the weekend and those drinks that let us forget the last week. Solution to heavy drinking is to reduce the working hours; give us a few more holidays.
On the Green issue (with cars, and everything else); I don't think lining your pockets with gold would stop any climate change. The government knows people won't give up their cars for public transport because public transport is turd. So they charge us more to use our cars; which are the only realistic way of getting around. If climate change was real the government would be more sensible to over incentives to people for buying hybrid cars, fitting solar panels to their houses or fitting combi boilers. You don't hear the government saying they'll pay 50% of the price for solar panels on your house; save money and the planet.
Kill 'em all...every last fcuk wit in the government... all as greedy and stupid as each other. If they cared so much about this country they'd take a drop in wage...imagine if every politician took a 5% drop in wage...what kind of money would this country save !
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05-30-2008, 07:20 AM
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05-30-2008, 12:51 PM
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Country:  | $9.76 per gallon, this afternoon
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05-30-2008, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus GATHER THE PITCHFORKS AND BURN THE CROPS!!! THE TIME FOR REVOLT IS AT HAND!!!
Does anyone actually know why a barrel of oil is so freakin expensive now??? Its not like the Wars we got goin are affecting OPEC... | I read recently it's more to do with speculators on the commodities exchange then anything else
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05-30-2008, 08:14 PM
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#240 | | aka Dickcheese
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Country: | $4.15USD just up the street. But Christ, $9.76 in the Netherlands, Marcel? Jeeeez! 
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