Why do we have to pay more for petrol than any other country?

Question

Where does all the revenue from taxes get spent and why do we put up with it? No other country would so who is standing up to be counted?

The UK pays more in taxes and sees less benefits than probably any other EU nation. We need to stand up for ourselves as no politician will do so. Who would you suggest can lead us?

The question is why do we pay more tax than any other country? It is nothing to do with using cars, bikes, etc. but why it costs the UK drivers more than elsewhere.

Answer 1

I think it is scandalous. I have to drive for my job and I get so much less mileage for my money than I used to. It is another factor fuelling inflation.

Edit; To the person above, almost certainly UK

Answer 2

UK. The reason is tax upon tax and a little extra by John Prescott to help the environment on which no money was spent and if the price of oil comes down and the Oil Companies reduce petrol prices the government will put the tax up again to help the environment and as a result food prices will become more ridiculous and the government will scream foul because people will want more money from employers to pay for the government taxes. The economy is fouled up good-style because the Labour government pretends to understand economics and banking and is too incompetent to admit that it does not. Result is hey hey hey you will pay

Answer 3

This particular government has attempted to buy votes through a wide range of social benefits for the underclass. To pay for its programs of social engineering requires money- the government therefore is willing to raise funds in any way possible. The base price of petrol increases and the government simply reaps the benefit of the price increase as the tax imposed is levied upon the commodity itself.
If social programs were cut to a reasonable level the need for revenue would decrease. Taxpayers are funding the new "leisure class" ie the feckless and lazy.

Answer 4

People are moaning about the price of petrol and today a group of people, organised a demonstrated to show the government the country wasn't happy and where were all you lot moaning. Doing what this country is good at armchair moaning. You never do nothing about it. The uk moan about the government, but less then half go out and vote.

Personnal I have the same opinion as a certain middle aged petrol head, who said if we were all green and run our cars on water. We would be paying nearly £5 a litre so a pound a litre isn't bad.

Answer 5

Have you ever tried WLKING your children to a post box instead of being lazy and taking a bus or a car?
Motoring is not an 'essential'
When my car broke down abd i had to walk instead I realised that London is really quite small.
It took me only 1/2 an hour to walk from camden to Holborn(for example)
When I drove it took me more time than that.!
We need to stop moaning about our 'right' to drive a gas guzzling death trap ( and only complain when someone knocks us over) and take responsibility for the fact that we are using up all of the worlds oil reserves
'Peak OIL' (when demand outstrips supply) is coming VERY soon.
$100 for a barrel of oil will happen this year.
Our prices are jacked up because of our taxes of course.
But if we go without doctors, dentists, people to pick the vegetables which keep the U.K. as a producing economy, instead of relying on other countries to buy our stuff from, then our taxes would go up!
The immigrant workers we depend upon are paying tax for us!
If you really want to spend less at the pump: Tell our Govt to leave Iraq.
Only this week has oil production in Iraq reached the level it was at BEFORE we invaded!
If we hadn't interfered it might be 10 times what it is now and petrol prices would be cheaper as a result!
(yes saddam was a bad man, but waterboarding potential criminals makes us as bad as the regime we are supposed to be better than)


IF OUR TAX WAS SPENT ON US , NOT ON SENDING SOLDIERS INTO COUNTRIES WE CANNOT CONTROL, THEN OUR PETROL WOULD BE MUCH, MUCH CHEAPER!
(and if we keep bombing places, the refugees from those places will want to come here to avoid the war!)

Answer 6

Because the government are 'organised thieves'
They ensure local post offices are closed down, put local shops out of business through extortionate rents and 'business rates'.
They close down local schools and businesses so EVERYBODY HAS to travel.
Then they suggest that public transport is the answer ?????
Have you ever walked to the bus stop with your 3 under 5 year old children to get a bus to post a letter ??? £2 a go.
Have you tried doing the same going for your weekly shopping and tried getting your shopping home ????
Its a farce.
Motoring is NOT a luxury like it was in 1910.
It is ESSENTIAL due to government policy.
I think the population of this great country is on a tipping point regarding motoring.
Government happily take £50 BILLION a year from motorists and hardly build a single new road.
The revolt is NOT far away at all.

Answer 7

You are voicing complaints that many people have voiced many times before.
Though I fully agree with you it would seem you are whistling in the wind, like many of us who have raised this issue with senior people,
My feeling on this is we should not, be subject to these high prices for fuel,
The biggest levy on this is, the tax by the government,it does seem strange they can donate ,millions to other countries, and Tax us to high heaven maybe that is how, they can donate this money??

Answer 8

UK motorist have to pay for the millions of lazy useless dossers sponging off the state. We have the biggest welfare bill in the EU, thus the highest taxes

Answer 9

You have to pay for that "free" health insurance some way. Not to mention freebies given to illegal aliens, or does UK not have immigration laws? That's just one of the reasons we're fighting the demoncrats so hard here.

Answer 10

here in France unleaded 95 is 1.45 euros on the motorway, that is over a pound a litre, Yesterday I paid one pound 3 pence a litre in England. Not that different.