Why do people who drive complain about the price of petrol or diesel?

Question

When a litre of beer is more expensive than petrol. They don't complain then, Why is that.

Answer 1

One has to have something to complain about as they sit there drinking their brew! Otherwise why would you want to start a conversation. Griping is man's salvation. Old army sargeant worried when his men didn't gripe. Worried that something was amiss and hewasn't privy to the info.

Answer 2

Well I don't tend to drink beer by the litre, so it's not as noticeable.

When I fill my car up, I put in 20+ litres of petrol, so I am conscious of the fact that it costs around £1 per litre, as I buy it in large quantities.

I only drink beer/alcohol in small quantities, but if I was to drink 20 litres of beer, then I'm sure I would notice the price of it.

Answer 3

Hi
some, have to use their car to get to work, they can go without the odd pint or get it from a supermarket, but with fuel, over 75% is TAX, duty & VAT, and i have a friend who runs a old car, as the only job he could find is 10miles away, no bus routes, and shifts. so every time fuel goes up its take money out of the bill fund, so he has to work more hours, its that simply, soon he will be better of unemployed, as it will be too expensive to get to work, also noting that the bread and milk lorry that delivers your food, put there costs up to pay for their fuel and so on it goes... too some beer is a luxury to where fuel is a necessity, if you ignore or the fancy car drivers some do actually have to drive as its not an option.

Answer 4

On an average week I go through 50 to 80 ltrs diesel. If I drank 50 to 80 ltrs beer every week I would be dead!
Where I live the average price of beer in £2.20 a pint I don't think the tax man takes £1.80 in tax on this, unlike the tax of fuel.
Ja.

Answer 5

at a guess i don't know many people who drink 30 litres of beer every 3-4 days, where as people who drive can use more than that topping up there car and in less time.

i used to drive a Vauxhall van, and despite getting better mpg that Vauxhall said it was possible to, i still did over 200 miles a day and filled up every day, and when your tank take 47 litres it can get quite dear

Answer 6

Because I never go to the store to buy $60 worth of beer at one time?

Because $60 worth of beer would last me for months rather than weeks?

Because I remember when gasoline cost 29 cents? Yeah, inflation has changed that, but it cost substantially less than beer (which was about $2.49) at the time, but not any more.

Because although I can afford the gas I need, the working poor are screwed? Even public transportation is costing more.

Because our government is still doing nothing much about finding alternate fuels that work and can be cheaply produced in this country?

Answer 7

Quite simple - taxation. The tax on road fuel is about 400%!
No other commodity in the UK is taxed anywhere as near as much as petrol/Diesel, and whether or not you own a car, it affects everybody in the country through high transport costs, or for those that do own a car (which is well over half the adult population of the UK) it impinges itself through higher living costs.

Answer 8

Because the people who think they need an enormous gas guzzling SUV to get around just because they can when a compact sedan will do are causing high demands and the people who drive small fuel efficient vehicles on a small income are reaching the point where gas is becoming a luxury. And for most those people with the small incomes they need to drive to get to work and pay is not increasing to help with inflation.

Answer 9

First, I don't drink alcohol, so I don't know or care what it costs.
Second, the price of fuel has risen faster than my income. Annual increases in salary have not kept pace with the rising costs of fuel. I drive a distance of 52 miles each way to work. I have already been forced to sell one vehicle, and purchase another that gets better milage.

I wouldn't complain if the oil companies were not recording record profits. All this tells me is that they are screwing people at record levels. And getting stinking rich at the same time!

Answer 10

You explained part of the discrepancy USA gallons are 3.78 liters and Imperial gallons are 4.54 liters. 24 miles per gallon is still average for big SUV and the high power cars many Americans buy. A few Americans buy cars around 40 miles per gallon and 95 Octane gas here in Jacksonville, Florida costs almost $5 dollars per gallon. I'm quite sure pay scales are some what lower in UK than in Jacksonville, Florida, Pay scales and living costs are perhaps 20% higher in New York City and Alaska, than Jacksonville, which I think is about average for pay scales and cost of living for USA overall.

Answer 11

petrol is a necessity where beers not and athe end of the day the government take about 70% tax from fuel what a rip off