Today it was time to fill up once again on the way to band. Another £25 into my small economical car (roughly 19 litres) will last me through to Wednesday if I am very lucky.
I will then probably put in another £25 and - low in behold, this will be gone by the end of Sunday (if not before.)
I am pretty sure that as little as 10 years ago, the first £25 quid would have lasted the week - and potentially beyond. The money just doesn't go as far - literally and figuratively.
I wouldn't even mind if this was simply because of the relative scarcity of fuel we are always being told about. It isn't though, most of the money goes to the government in one way or another.
The first of these taxes is the 'fuel duty' - which is the single most expensive thing you pay for per litre at (as of today) a whopping £0.57p per litre.
The reason for this tax then? Well, this appears to be rather a grey area to be honest. What I can find out is that they do not spend this on our roads - so the whole thing seems quite corrupt to me. Another reason for this being so high is for 'green tax' purposes.
This means simply that they use environmental reasons to fuck you over! You were right Kermit:
It's not easy being green
If they were spending the money on green fuel research I'd get it - but they aren't, its just an exuse to fuck you over.
Its not even like I have much choice - I would loose around 4 hours a week by not driving - and some of the places I need to go (like band) I can't even get to by public transport.
So moving on from there, we pay £0.47p per litre for the actual fuel (that's right, less than just a single tax.) This I understand to a certain extent, it does cost money to get this out of the ground or out of the sea. I am sure that the prices are inflated - but at least you are paying for something!
From there then we move on to VAT (Value Added Tax, for those of you not familiar.)
Hang the fuck on!? I thought we'd paid tax already. But no- we need to be taxed on the tax as well - warped logic or what!
VAT is added to things that are considered luxuries. As such - I really do think that things I use my car for that are essential - like journeys to work - should not be applicable to this. Once again - I think that the government really don't give a shit about this.
The final 5p goes to the retailer which I suppose is fair enough - considering staffing, transport, storage etc etc.
So, the villain of the piece is: resoundingly the fucking government.
We really do get fucked over in this country! Bastards
Rant over.
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