I think you guys are going the right direction with all this sticking together stuff. I think two weeks is to much to ask though. one hour a week would be fine if we had an organisation who were respectable and reliable.
A Director of a big company suporting it.
Every person in the country who buys fuel suporting it.
The fact that people were sticking together would make this goverment sit up and listen.
I would be number one suporter.
The key is not to ask to much of people but to ask everybody. (I think for what its worth)
Those ■■■■■ in London Village don’t care about go slows & us all holidaying together FFS wake up would you, what we need is those wannabe students doing there stuff trashing The Smoke & frightening a few Royals that they did take note of, they could’nt give a flying ■■■■■ if what happens outside of the 25.
Its all well and good protesting but I’d bet my last pound if the government knocked say 10p off the duty the shipping lines and customers would expect you to cut 10p off the rates
kr79:
Its all well and good protesting but I’d bet my last pound if the government knocked say 10p off the duty the shipping lines and customers would expect you to cut 10p off the rates
This from Wikipedia describes just how much they rip us off.
"From 4th January 2011 the UK duty rate for the road fuels unleaded petrol, diesel, biodiesel and bioethanol is GB£0.5895 per litre (£2.65 per imperial gallon or £2.20 per U.S. gallon). Value Added Tax at 20% is also charged on the price of the fuel and on the duty. Using the UK average untaxed pump price for unleaded petrol of £0.4572 per litre (from the December 2010 average taxed price of £1.221 per litre, the duty rate of £0.5819 per litre and the then VAT rate of 17.5%) this would give a January 2011 taxed price of £1.256 per litre (£5.71 per imperial gallon or £4.75 per U.S. gallon) - that is equivalent to a tax rate of 175%. Diesel for use by farmers and construction vehicles is coloured red (Red Diesel) and has a much reduced tax, currently £0.1133 per litre. Jet fuel used for international aviation attracts no duty, and no VAT".
The un taxed price is only 45p. They whack 58 in fuel duty on top then charge 20% VAT on BOTH. Absolutely abhorrent behaviour and downright theft. Yet farmers pay only 11p and the aviation industry NOTHING
Terry T:
Jet fuel used for international aviation attracts no duty, and no VAT".[/b]
This surely can’t be correct as aviation is far more harmful to the environment than road haulage and we all know that the tax on road fuel is to protect the environment and nothing else…
This whole issuie about fuel prices is only a culmination off many facters yes fuel is one of the main costs in our game butif fuel drops your fuel escalayer that your shipping lines container companys payment drop aswell so your no bettet off. What about tyres maintance etc thyve all gone up so done we blockade the tyre factery then non truck related bills liked houshold bills have all incresed so do we stop shopping the long and short of it is me included are working for substandard rates and we will continue to do so to pay our bills and get thru this lifeand. Pay our bills its a hudge ■■■■ sandwich and we’ve all got to have a bite
If you have a read of this pilots website you get the jist of how we all live in our own little world.
Two quotes stand out for me regarding this:
Dirty Mach
“It won’t happen. operators will just fill up in France or Amsterdam or Jersey or the Isle of Man or Dublin. BP and Shell in the UK will start losing out and put pressure on the govt.”
Nav Green "Could you imagine the consiquences of such a move, the country would be flooded with foreign operators enjoying their tax free EU status as thousands of UK pilots are made redundant as the airlines fold. I don;t think it would happen but if it does the airline industry would go the same way as merchant shipping."
The similarities with our industry run clear, but their need to align themselves with the public transport sector when it comes to tax is illuminating.
Then look at the date when this was taken from The Times - 17 February 2003. The argument over the tax status of air fuel has run for years and will continue to do so.
FFS wake up would you, what we need is those wannabe students doing there stuff trashing The Smoke & frightening a few Royals that they did take note of, they could’nt give a flying ■■■■■ if what happens outside of the 25.
