2 fuel related tidbits for you ( Archived) (27)

seriously, you guys think you're bad but you ain't seen NOTHING YET! in th euk we pay an average £1.23 ($2.40 approx) per LITRE for fuel at the pumps. the average shopping bill has risen by around £20 ($40) per week, household gas incresed by 18% & electricity by 12% a few months back - now we're being told gas is likely to increase by FORTY PERCENT come the winter.meanwhile, the government has asked employers to minimise any wage increases, suggesting that perhaps 2.5%-3% wage increases would suffice!!

Jimmy Hoffa

What you pay for the pumps is not that much more than what we pay....

Shopping for the basics for 1 person ( milk, bread, eggs, bum wipe, etc) is well over $40 a week for us.

For heating, My gas bill to keep my 900 square feet aprtment heated to 62 degrees fahrenheit cost me around $100 dollars a amonth during the winter. AND THAT IS REASONABLE!



If your under the impression that things are cheap here in the U.S., they are not.

And cost of living wage increases??? forget about it.......

i think you musta misread. you guys pay what for fuel? $3.50 per GALLON (approx)? we're paying almost the same for 1 LITRE - which would amount to well over $10 per gallon. Also, i said that basic shopping bills has RISEN by $40 per week. to keep a 900 sq ft apartment at 62 deg over here would cost WELL over $100 per month - which will soon also soon be increased by another 40%.

By reading your posts, I can see you are a very intelligent man....

So, what is the UK doing about this fuel problem?

Oil would go to the world market then....

at the moment nobody seems to be doing very much. there are a handful of people (including myself) who have boycotted BP stations and hope that we can persuade enough people in the uk to join in and make BP feel the pinch. if this happens then BP would either HAVE to drop their prices or lobby the government to reduce the fuel tax (which is around 75%). a price war at the pumps is inevitable in the not so distant future. perhaps recession isn't that far away either. house prices have already began to fall for the first time in many years and it's predicted they'll again fall by as much as 10% by the end of the year. the country's going nuts

So about the same as the U.S.


it's funny you mention BP........I've seen 2 brand new BP stations shut down after less than a year of business....

I think I'd boycott the government ..........75% taxes. Hell, that's where your problem is~


JMHO

I will repeat from my other thread; The world economy and survival is all based on oil. We are running out of it and faster than you think. China and India has entered the car buying arena. North America imports about 70% of its required oil, China must import all of its oil....do the math. Alternatives ? There are none. Hydrogen powered vehicles take oil in order to produce them, as well as any other form of energy producers.

We hit the peak of all remaining oil reserves on this planet in the 70's, we've been sliding down the slope to depletion since.

If you have any doubts about this, just hang on another year, you will see gas hit $6.00 a gallon in N. America, and everything that follows, from food to tooth-picks, because almost everything that is manufactured is done so based on fossil-fuel.

Ever hear of Hubbard's peak?

It is the point at which oil production begins to go down forever. It is the reason behind rising gas prices. The halfway point in supply is called “peak oil,” or also, “Hubbard's Peak.” Dr. Hubbard's predictions were accurate for American reserves, correctly predicting the U.S. had pumped half its reserves by 1970. He made these predictions in the 50's and was laughed out of the profession.

The so called "reserves", are inflated in order to manipulate the oil producers quotas. It's over.