Driving out of Smalltown this morning I noticed that the price of petrol had finally reached the 100.9p level for a litre regular unleaded. But it gets better, the highest price in the country for this is 109.9p per litre as of yesterday.
At the highest price that works out at £5 for a UK gallon of fuel, (or $10.44 for my North American readers) - two thirds of the cost is taken by the government.
This is on top of the £180 per year road tax that we have to pay if your car is more than six years old and has an engine size over 1549cc, and do not get me started on insurance costs or veins will burst.
It might not be so bad if I could find an open road to drive along but I am living at the wrong end of the country for that to ever happen.
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3 comments:
Wow! To think I winced about dropping $29 into my tank, today.
The Democrats keep wanting to up our gasoline taxes. It is a huge bone of contention here.
You all are taxes like crazy!
Just wondering: What things that the government offers via your taxes should be done away with to "lower" the tax burden? (Yeah, like the government will ever want to lower taxes.)
That is a very good question and also one that it is very hard to answer.
Just checked out a breakdown of where the money is going and £49bn is spent on "Other" - WTF?
From what I know, all major IT developments for government departments (with 1 or 2 exceptions) have been late, over budget and have not delivered what was promised.
So stop giving contracts to International consultancies who will fail to deliver, scrap the plans for ID cards and do not upgrade our "nuclear deterrant".
garsh! That's terrible. I'm opposed to confiscatory taxes on principle, yes, even luxury taxes. It's obscene.
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