The cheapest and most expensive places to buy petrol

One thing is certain. We are being mercilessly ripped off by just about every agency. It won't just be fuel or heating that's causing poverty but rising food prices too. We are returning to the age of Dickens but with 'Big Brother' watching on. One thing's clear. He's not on our side. Electricblue re. your condescending comment about whining & bleating you fail to consider that those most hurt by fuel prices can in no way afford an LPG conversion. And let's not forget a great number of the services you allude to are being cut. The simple fact of the matter is the economy has been grossly mismanaged. Not that it is very manageable to begin with. With major financial decisions being made by non government entities that majorly impact us the government are rather impotent. However it would also appear they are colluding with the culprits for personal gain. But that's nothing new.

I don't know where those figures came from???? They cannot, in my opinion reflect, an accurate analysis. Quite apart from the fact that even when there is a temporary dip it is soon swallowed up in an even higher rise. There was a slight dip after the recent scandal but now that appears to have blown over the prices have soared again.

Why is motoring taxation a rip off? Vehicle Excise Duty, as it is now called, was introduced as the “Road Fund Licence” then called “Road TAX” and was clearly there to fund the building and maintenance of roads for the use of road vehicles. Fair enough? Then the name was changed to Vehicle Excise Duty for the precise purpose of separating it from any notion that it is there to pay for the roads. So you can see the direction in which our wonderful Westminster Warriors were/are thinking. Today we have : £70bn collected from various motoring taxes with less than £10bn spent on transport of which spending of motoring facilities is only a part. So about 10% of revenue is spent on facilities needed by the motoring public and 90% is just taxation. So in what way does 900% taxation not represent a rip off? On top of the 900% taxation there is :- £100m each year extorted in speeding fines on the pretence that it is to promote road safety. A cursory analysis of road deaths (source DfT) before and after he introduction of Speed Cameras demonstrates the extent of that lie. The numbers reveal that Speed Cameras, the policies that support them and some very dodgy legal processes have resulted in excess of 12,000 (yes twelve thousand) ADDITIONAL deaths on our roads since the introduction of speed cameras in the mid 90s. So HMG is making money of the backs of the deaths of people in the UK. Countless £millions charged in parking fees and fines to park on roads that we pay through the nose for already. Parking meters were introduced as a way of rationing parking but very soon Councils saw the revenue potential and have been feeding off that ever since. Successive governments, both central and local, see the car driver/owner as a convenient bottomless “piggy bank” to fund their wasteful vanity projects. Still think it's not a rip off? BTW I do run my car on LPG and it is true that the road fuel duty is lower but it is still a significant amount.