npinks wrote:

chicken george wrote:

tesco - every little hurts - evil farmer hating monopoly store.

I remember 4 X Train stations, 1 x electric company, 1x water company and a Jail, but i don't recall any Superstore on my monopoly board

I wont be long until tesco do a monolpoly board with store names instead of streets, club points instead of monopoly money, go to asda instead of go to jail, Then a few years later this will be the only monopoly board available anywhere, and the price will treble! watch them because they are watching us .



Imagine that a tesco own brand caravan!, blue and white striped. the two things I despise in one horrible package!

they tried to sell houses so i guess it will be only a matter of time  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

They also tried to sell cars a few years ago................................... and that failed miserably! Problem was getting them on the conveyor at the checkout! How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Hey ...... how come Tescos & Monoploy highjacked this diesel in the UK string?!  Life is not a dress rehearsal!

Because once tesco gets involved in something it takes over and ruins it. And because some how our stupid government thinks everyone lives in London and doesn't need a car, so everyone else has to pay and pay just to go about their normal daily life, going to work,shops,school run,hospital etc.

Mrs George was driving 35miles each way to Leeds to health visit but does the govt take any notice of her fuel bills, er no. Meanwhile the clinic 4 miles away is desperately short of heath visitors but there are no funds available,even after govt scoops in all that tax.



There you go thread back on track,but the danger is we will get all political and things may get ugly

I said i get my diesel from Tesco and it wasn't worth driving to save a penny at another station

and it was hijacked from their .......... Sorry for mentioning Tescos Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Doh you said the 'T' word again , stop it



Just be glad you don't own a combine harvester, As filling the 300 gallon tank with red diesel at 50p+ / litre is going to sting a bit (It was about 15p/l 3-4 years ago). Contrary to popular belief red farm diesel is not duty free but the duty is much less than DERV. I wish I had the courage to fill the fl2 up with it, Its seems that about half the transit vans around here run on red and nobody ever gets caught.

We know we are getting ripped off by UK plc, but what would really help to focus peoples mind on this (with regard to fuel) is this. When you fill up, be it a supermarket or anywhere else, you make two payments ... one for the material/commercial cost of the fuel, the other payment would be the tax and duty. If we did this it would REALLY concentrate the mind on what is behind the current fuel price.

The tax and duty is the main issue for us in the Uk, although there is a secondary issue with the material price of the fuel. When you take a barrel of crude and refine it into 'products' there is a limit to how much volume of specific products you can extract. In the UK the refining infrastructure isn't ideal for producing the volumes of diesel we are now demanding. To produce the volumes of diesel now required the refining processes are being pushed towards the limits, which does have an impact on the cost, which is why diesel is more expensive than petrol at present. The raw cost of the fuel isn't a rip off. if you stripped the oil company margin and the retailing margin the cost wouldn't reduce as much as you might think.

It does my head in when people complain about the oil companies making a fortune from UK motorists, its the govt who is causing us to pay such high prices, while pretending its all for the 'environment' ... my arse!
Govt couldn't give a fig about the environment they just hand environment issues down to govt agencys who dont have a clue what to do, so send loads of paperwork out to businesses, then make them buy a permit to cover the cost of all the paperwork.

The climate change levy on energy is another madness, each year I send forms about my energy use to an office (no doubt full of lights,computers and other energy using systems) to check that I'm using energy efficiently, They then process my forms and send them to another office full of lights, computers, heaters, etc who punish me for not being carbon neutral.

chicken george wrote:

It does my head in when people complain about the oil companies making a fortune from UK motorists, its the govt who is causing us to pay such high prices, while pretending its all for the 'environment' ... my arse!
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My previous post was an attempt to defend the oil company position, like I say if you take all they make out of the equation, the gain would be disappointingly small. This bunch that's running UK plc at present are bleeding us dry, if they carry on at this rate there will be revolution.


If the UK plc was serious the environment there are a ton of things that would be different e.g. we wouldn't have the farcical situation we have this holiday weekend where the rail network all but grinding to a halt.

agreed

Is it not that diesel is more highly priced 'cos the true test is "tax raised per mile travelled" You have a think and a calculator,How much tax does Brown get for 500 miles travelled in the average car, petrol v diesel.

too much!!!

Retired wrote:

'cos the true test is "tax raised per mile travelled"

It's that Livingstone fella, he's extended the congestion charge zone to a 3 mile limit around GB!  Freelander 2 - SE
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