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Just filled my van up for the derby and can't believe diesel is now £1.20 a litre :rant:

Has anyone noticed how much rapeseed is growing in the fields this year?

Anyone noticed you can't buy extra value cooking oil anymore?

Spot the connection? :- "

I think this time next year the UK is going to be one big acid yellow field and I'm going to be driving along on biofuel from now on!

 

[stormydog]

Just filled my van up for the derby and can't believe diesel is now £1.20 a litre :rant:
Has anyone noticed how much rapeseed is growing in the fields this year?

Anyone noticed you can't buy extra value cooking oil anymore?

Spot the connection? :- "

I think this time next year the UK is going to be one big acid yellow field and I'm going to be driving along on biofuel from now on!

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biofuel...whats wrong with the red stuff ? h34r:

 

[Flowerpot]

That rape seed is growing everywhere !!! My allergies are bad enough as it is but that stuff drives me over the edge !! :rant: It`s lethal !!! :x

 

[bertha]

You get done for using red diesel in the UK unless you drive a tractor or similar, that's why!!!!!!!!!

 

[~Sally~]

That rape seed is growing everywhere !!! My allergies are bad enough as it is but that stuff drives me over the edge !! :rant: It`s lethal !!! :x

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we got it all round here its nasty always sneezing etc :angry:

 

[kris]

as the owner of a gas guzzling 4x4 i have to say its costing us a fortune to just go to work each day,most of the pajero owners i know are using biofuels and have been for ages,but it is illegal :- "

£5-a-gallon 'climate change' scam

Daily Mail 2/5/08

High roller: £100 to fill the tank won't make Simon Cowell give up his Roller any day soon

Global warming will be "put on hold" for the next ten years, according to scientists.

The truth is that the Earth has actually been cooling for the past few years.

But that won't stop the eco-nazis. Nor will it prevent politicians using dodgy climate change hysteria to keep increasing taxes.

Thanks to "climate change", thousands of people in Britain are lumbered with a car which is worth less than its annual road tax.

This is as a result of Gordon's glove-puppet backdating higher duty on so-called "gas guzzlers" without actually telling anyone.

Like most of Labour's nastier stealth taxes, it was smuggled in under the radar, tucked away in the small print.

Consequently, motorists who own fairly mundane family cars registered after March 2001 are getting clobbered. Some vehicles have slumped in value by up to 70 per cent.

Who wants to pay £500 road tax on a car which might be worth half that amount this time next year?

Of course, this won't affect the Prime Minister or the Chancellor. Gordon doesn't even hold a driving licence.

Not for them the "carbon footprint" surcharge, or the London congestion charge. Another 50p or even £1 a litre on petrol doesn't concern them since they won't have to pay it.

Parking tickets and speeding fines aren't their problem, either. They have chauffeurs and police escorts to ferry them around and drop them at the front door.

They won't find themselves cruising endlessly searching for a space, or panicking in the doctor's surgery that their meter is about to run out and they'll get back to the car to find it ticketed, clamped or towed away.

They won't be among the one in three drivers caught each year by a camera or a traffic warden.

Labour has spent the past 11 years relentlessly criminalising motorists and syphoning money out of our petrol tanks to fill its own coffers.

Why should any member of Opec heed a plea from a British Prime Minister to increase production or lower prices when 70p of every £1 taken at the pumps goes straight to the Treasury?

The higher the price of a barrel of oil, the more the Government rakes in. Gordon could afford to cut the price of petrol today by 9p a litre, but he won't.

Maybe he'll agree to suspend the planned 2p rise in duty as part of his next "relaunch". Then we'll all be expected to be pathetically grateful.

More likely he'll hide behind the "climate change" argument and insist he's taxing us for the sake of the polar bears.

As usual, it is ordinary people who bear the brunt. Simon Cowell won't be giving up his Roller any day soon because it costs £100 to fill his tank.

Big bangers in the hedge fund markets won't junk their Ferraris if the congestion charge hits £25 a day.

Bling-bling footballers aren't going to give up the keys to their Porsche Cayennes because road tax has risen to £500 a year.

Hardest hit will be less well-off families with older, larger cars. What is a middle-income father-of-four with a 2001 Renault Espace supposed to do when the road fund bill lands and it costs half his disposable income to fill up with unleaded?

Like the doubling of council tax, the scrapping of the 10p income tax band, new rubbish taxes and dustbin fines, it always comes down on top of those who can least afford it - the people this Government is supposed to "care" about.

I don't know about global warming, but the sooner Labour is put on hold for at least ten years, the better

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[bertha]

I've already ranted on the whippet forum about this, it is time for labour to go. So much for supporting the working man, that is a joke.

£60 to fill up a Berlingo, it's a laugh. £500 to fill our oil tank, it's a joke.

Where will it end?

 

[stormydog]

You get done for using red diesel in the UK unless you drive a tractor or similar, that's why!!!!!!!!!

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DUHHHH...i know that :wacko: (w00t)

come on big bertha..group hug..cmon .... :huggles: :huggles: there now

 

[kris]

friend of ours who owns a fleet of wagons and does the paris- spain- portugal run got caught in the uk for using red diesel.vat man knocked on his door took the house,the 4x4's his wagons and everything.then they said to him if you think you dont owe us the money(in unpaid duty) take us to court!he lost everything

 

[stormydog]

friend of ours who owns a fleet of wagons and does the paris- spain- portugal run got caught in the uk for using red diesel.vat man knocked on his door  took the house,the 4x4's  his wagons and everything.then they said to him if you think you dont owe us the money(in unpaid duty) take us to court!he lost everything

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oh what a kick in the red-dieselised balls that was....(john winces :unsure: )

 

[kris]

yep but hes back in business though!

 

[wild whippies]

Where will it end?

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When we vote the buggers out! :thumbsup:

I really, really hoped this year that St.Helens, Liverpool, Salford and Manchester would of voted anyone but Labour but yet again it seems we're living within a region of retards. There's a common saying around here that if you took a pig and stuck a red rosette on it, folk would vote for it. :wacko:

 

[kris]

Where will it end?

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When we vote the buggers out! :thumbsup:

I really, really hoped this year that St.Helens, Liverpool, Salford and Manchester would of voted anyone but Labour but yet again it seems we're living within a region of retards. There's a common saying around here that if you took a pig and stuck a red rosette on it, folk would vote for it. :wacko:

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well they said that after we were lumped with our MP (who is married to a sainsbury heiress)he crossed the floor as the saying goes and left the conservative benches to join labour! (w00t) turncoat!

 

[midlanderkeith]

I've already ranted on the whippet forum about this, it is time for labour to go. So much for supporting the working man, that is a joke.£60 to fill up a Berlingo, it's a laugh. £500 to fill our oil tank, it's a joke.

Where will it end?

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It'll never bloody well end :lol: what a damn miserable existence innit, ive said this afoor, but i'll be glad when the good lord takes me :lol:

 

[Whippets4eva]

I've already ranted on the whippet forum about this, it is time for labour to go. So much for supporting the working man, that is a joke.£60 to fill up a Berlingo, it's a laugh. £500 to fill our oil tank, it's a joke.

Where will it end?

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It'll never bloody well end :lol: what a damn miserable existence innit, ive said this afoor, but i'll be glad when the good lord takes me :lol:

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Oh Keith, don't say that, who would make us laugh so much on here if you weren't around. :lol:

:cheers:

Sonia and Jesse xx

 

[wilfred]

hear hear, to everything said on here. My husband has a 60-mile round trip to work, no public transport to where he works (in the middle of nowhere), and anyway he works unsocial shift hours (gets up at 5 am for a 7 am start cos it's not A-roads), it costs £50 a week in diesel for him just to get to work and back. Diesel used to be cheap, now it's hellish expensive. £200 a month just on transport to work and back is a heck of a lot to spend, it's gone up such a lot.

This government is not set up for helping people in rural locations, they are all for city dwellers IMO. I've nothing against city dwellers, but I've often wished we have good public transport where I live, here, we need a car to get to work and when you both work vastly different hours, in different directions, there's no chance of us both sharing a car.

But at least we have beautiful scenery! (though you can't eat it, that's a true saying).

 

[hely]

THIS COUNTRY IS GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE :angry:

 

[alfyn]

hear hear, to everything said on here.  My husband has a 60-mile round trip to work, no public transport to where he works (in the middle of nowhere), and anyway he works unsocial shift hours (gets up at 5 am for a 7 am start cos it's not A-roads), it costs £50 a week in diesel for him just to get to work and back.  Diesel used to be cheap, now it's hellish expensive.  £200 a month just on transport to work and back is a heck of a lot to spend, it's gone up such a lot. 
This government is not set up for helping people in rural locations, they are all for city dwellers IMO.  I've nothing against city dwellers, but I've often wished we have good public transport where I live, here, we need a car to get to work and when you both work vastly different hours, in different directions, there's no chance of us both sharing a car.

But at least we have beautiful scenery!   (though you can't eat it, that's a true saying).

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Yes,& you'll soon be taxed for that too :rant:

Similar thing here too,we need to have 2 cars as the public transport is non existent

Hely,it's not going from bad to worse,it's going from worse to dam nigh impossible! :angry:

The way things are going,it won't be that much longer till all the Brits that can afford it will have emigrated,& those of us left will freeze to death cos we can't afford to heat our houses any more

 

[controversial]

just put 40 litres in the c8 18.50 can you believe it the price of fuel is a joke (w00t) thank god for lpg (w00t) farmer at york sells bio-fuel .at 90p a litre .its the petrol companies that are ripping you off not the goverment .who would vote for a slime ball like cameron

 

[wilfred]

it's not just the oil companies who are making money out of the cost of fuel - are you aware of how much tax we pay to the Government, per litre of fuel? if you look on the website for PetrolPrices.com that gives you the figures as at October 2007, you can also sign up to get regular emails of where to find the cheapest fuel in your area:

www.petrolprices.com