Letter: No sympathy for petrol station bosses
Monday 4th April 2011, 6:00AM BST.
Letters: I read with anger the article in the Star (March 26), saying the fuel station owners were moaning they had lost money due to the fact they had bought the fuel still in their tanks at pre-Budget prices, so would lose money because of the short notice of the price drop.
What a load of whingeing money grabbers. We never heard them moan when the Chancellor put the duty up.
Did they say then that they would not put it up till they had used what was in their tanks, as they bought it at pre-Budget prices and that they would make too much money?
I don’t think so. They have made millions over the years when they have full tanks at pre-Budget prices, and then slapped the increase on. No, they don’t moan when they sell at more than what they paid.
Well I am sorry but the shoe is on the other foot this time for the first time since I don’t know when. So get real all you fuel station owners, take the bad, in the same greedy manner you took the good. When the fuel goes up again, which I am fairly sure it will, we will remember.
Brian Groome
Sutton Maddock
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Good letter Brian I agree 100%,
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Here Here !!!!
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Brian I to agree 100%
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True, true Brian, couldn’t have said it better myself
It’s all very well saying its a tax decrease and they don’t see any profit or gain, well guess what, the motorist isn’t seeing a profit or gain either from the tax reduction so why the hell should anyone else!
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I can assure you they don’t have much profit at all at the filling stations. The price is all tax of one sort or another. The fuel companies and the government are the ones that are greedy.Why do you think all the small garages close their pumps its not worth their bother selling fuel.
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I have to agree with the previous comments, price rises are always instant – they can’t say they don’t make a killing on full tanks it greedy. As usual the poor motorist is held to ransome. My partner has to travel by car to work, there is no public transport available and he’s not had a pay rise for 3 years but his fuel costs have gone through the roof, beofre long he’ll be paying to go to work. No point is saying get a job closer to home than the 30 miles he has to travel there and back each day, as there are no jobs out there. So petrol station owners stop complaining as it’s you whos beeen caught on the hop for a change – goes around comes around !!
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Sorry Brian you’ve missed the point here. Its a fuel duty, ie a tax. The petrol station owners don’t see any additional revenue from it. It all goes to the tax man.
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Thank you. I am pleased to see there is some intelligent life on this website.
Double the tax, halve the tax, it doesn’t make one iota’s difference to the money made by the station owner.
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They do see extra profit on the tank of fuel that’s already in the ground. If they’ve already paid for that at pre duty rise rates, then applying an extra penny per litre is pure profiteering. They won’t pay extra duty until they need to purchase the next bulk delivery.
(Incidentally, they will see extra revenue from any duty rise, because revenue is what they take at the till. Then they take off duty, VAT, cost and overheads and anything that’s left is profit).
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I haven’t seen any drop in fuel prices since the budget.I think most of them have ignored the 1p price drop.
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Lets not forget that they also charge up to 40% more for items sold in their retail outlets. No wonder the general public are not supporting them and that so many go out of business.
As consumers we vote with our feet and wallets looking for the best deals!
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does this not happen on postage stamps aswell, many shops purchase first class stamps at the old price when they go up they charge the new price, so making a few pence on each stamp
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that may be but Royal Mail Stamp Prices only go up once a year, and not every day!
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Don’t forget that the price of crude has also gone up!
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Well said Brian same moaners up here, BP are so sad.
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Well, well – I can see that the Fuel Stabiliser is functioning just as the government predicted Hmmmmph!
Strange how fuel in Coventry has hit a monsterous 4p per ltr increase since the budget
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