Fuel price raised yet again in the UK!

There are two more price hike's on the way, within a matter of a few months and we are still in recession!!

This greedy Government is taking 67% in fuel tax from us at present in an attempt to fund their disasters, that is 67 pence in every £1 spent, so lets say petrol is currently £5.50 per 5 litre's/gallon that means this lousy Brown Government is taking nearly £3.70 out of the £5.50 in tax. What a b....y disgrace, and he thinks he's going to get another term in office ha, ha, ha, he has to be joking!

What are you paying per litre around the world members?

What's the conversion rate Ron between dollars and British money right now..do you know.  I think I paid $2.67 cents an gallon the last time I filled up, but I shop at an grocery store that you build up credit with purchases for gasoline..something they wanted to do before all this stated and finally got through. It was an brain-child of the store I worked at 1978-80's during the big "buy out" era of small corporations into bigger ones. The idea behind it was they could give their employees free gas to get to work and it would be tax deducitble as an business expense. It's an decent incentive for small business, but not for the public..because they alsways ask for three times higher prices then what was started with in the process.  Of course now, it's almost required by others to do it. If it was thier intent to help the public, as well as themselves, it's fallen through now with unemployment and low wages, as people have to spend $50 to get 20 per cent off their gasoline, and they simply don't have the money to buy the $50 worth of groceries these days...but they did work into raising grocery prices to help that situation, to find themselves with no people buying at all now. What they did prior to that was simply put 20 per cent coupons off in thier pay checks on store merchandise....but they didn't  have an reasonable excuse to own their own gas stations either..and people use "gas" to get to work. so for many its an necessary expense...I've know some people to sell "gas tickets" to other people they get from their employer. for many hispancis that drive with others, or for those that take an bus, they would rather have the cash. Stores having gas station is becoming an thing all its own these day s over here. I can't say though it does much for compettion to keep prices in general down though.I think why the new electric cars are going to become an necessary option in the future myself also. You almost have to get out of the ballpark in the game of rising prices unless you have an big paying job of some kind. Even then what is proposed and what makes it through is another thing perhaps. Where they went wrong with gasoline prices was upping them over $2.00 an gallon, after that it's increasing hard to pay it. Our southern neighbors are under selling thier gas, so they can take over the trucking industry in the United States...via using the so called North Ameircan Alliance, somethign or truther...another George Bush specialty. Trucker unions have already boycotted thier truckers coming up from the south, and the Govt. was there to arrest them promply... so it also has gone "under-ground" amoung the people. Latest thing is they want to control free speech on the internet..so no one knows what's going on when they pull this kind of stuff on us, I doubt it works also. Nazi-land all over again perhaps. First thing he did was isolate the news so he could brainwash the public into anything said...even into mass murdering.

May I ask your idea of what is considered "third-world" ?  My idea of it,  lack of "free" and "fair" competition, being made to be "dependent" on others,,esp in local laws and restrictions..business enterprise, lowered all over livabilty by high pricing indexes and lack of employment, formation of cultural "social" classes, little help for self-improvment and/or education...the needing of "documentation" for intelligience. Decline in the "arts" in the world...particularly in music, painting, and such arts. (From the imagination of these talents comes our new ideas in the world..our happiness/pleasure)  Little progress in one's dreams and asprations. Lowered health standards, but higher prices individually to obtain health care at all. Media control on what's given as news reporting. Heavy miltary prescence from within. Lack of ownership of land...and self-suffciency off the land. Corruption in the political issues of the country..and lack of true "free" elections.  Some of this I  call  the "doggie syndrom" as people are living like dogs, not really caged in, but they might as well, be, dependent of whom will feed them and care for them, and going out where it's "free" open spaces is an exliterating expereince of maybe 10 mins...many times leashed at that. are always thought of last, and always being told what's good for them by ttheir "owners"..latest report on dogs says that most of them are getting fat as people sustitute "doggie treats" for "Play" any kind involment in thier animal's lives. We all know the firstthng an barking dog gets told is to shut up and site down. The flashy so called better animals ones get doggie school to do as beckoned on command also...esp as puppies.

Today the GBP is worth about 62 pence against the Dollar Shirley. Obviously depending on the exchange rate for the day, but we are paying an equivalent of $9 - $11 per gallon/ 5 litres. And you are paying less than $3 per gallon, are we being mugged or what? Are we MUGS or what?

And third world to me means exactly what you have written above, you hit the nail on the head! Maybe an exception here and there but we are already suffering as you describe so it amounts to the same!

I've heard that Ron, many of these financial advisors over here are saying that the world in general is hit pretty hard right now economically. I have been up half the night, they just hauled off my nieghbor, but I don't know if alive or dead, and I dont' know if she's there or not either, as she works nights for an big hospital in radiation therapy.They are not an young couple, and they have not lived there to long either. They did not haul him off with ambulance lights flashing either,..but that' s not to say he wasn't in the back being "stabalized" just the same. I guess I'll have to try to go over there later on maybe. Find out. they were there for the longest time. You know what they say, most heart attacks happen in the early morning hours for some reason. I think it was last weekend they were motorcycle riding and as they pulled in, I was leaving and yelled out to her. "BIKER MOM!..and she turned around an laughed and waved me on.I also spent last night with this 7.4 Indonesia quake incoming also. Being an lightworker and "sensitive" I was up more last night then down sleeping. An stuble reminder I guess to count our blessings these days?... 6;45 am and I can't sleep in ways now...besides my ears are ringing to high heaven...blood pressure or tininttus.