is this more government wasteWith the risding price of fuel, and the consequent reduction in car use, will this be needed? M1 to be widened to eight lanes...
As we all know, fuel is soooo much cheaper in Europe, with this year's 20% rise solely down to those duty rises that evil scum Labourite Gordon Brown hasn't imposed on the poor beleagured motorist.
In case anyone's interested, here's the reality, according to the AA:
UK 91p 67% tax France 85p 66% tax Germany 90p 65% tax Italy 87p 63p tax
Source - page 2
The AA's own site says the following: Overseas prices - the UK again has the 5th highest Unleaded price in Europe. The Netherlands is now selling Unleaded at an average price of just over £1 a litre.
So, no duty rises in the UK since October 2003, a doubling of the price of crude in that time, and prices in Europe which did used to be much lower have seen rises higher than ours to be virtually the same. So clearly its thr government's fault.....
Ian Once again half truths from Mr bailey, the dutch dont pay half as much road tax as we do, and you miss out most of the other nations. So lets see shall we UK 37 p 7.4% tax Ireland 72.9 p 43% tax Hungary 78.3 p 46.2% tax Portugal 83.6p 51% tax Italy 86.2p53% tax France 83.6p %4% tax Sweden 86.6p54% tax Denmark 88.4p 54.8 % tax Belgium 87.2p 55.8% tax Finland 89.2p 57.1% tax Germany 88.9p 57.8 % tax UK 99.9p 62% tax Holland 98p 61.7% tax but much lower road tax
40,000 litres of unleaded ( a road tanker full) is worth £38,200, The Garage and Hailers get £1920, The Oil company gets £12,000 on which they pay their taxes each year on theor profits, The Govt gets £18,883 PLUS £ 5,397 VAT
