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Originally Posted by dudesterlang
TTDEGS aka Gordon Brown I reckon, sounds to me like you feel the extortionate cost of diesel is fair. Higher demand usually brings prices down. The X Box is another example of greed & that was over demand. If everyone hadn't been so eager to queue & buy one maybe prices would have come down.
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I'm
far from agreeing that the cost of diesel is fair!
I
am agreeing that allowing certain groups of people fuel which is artificially low is unfair.
However, what I was pointing out was that if you reduce the price (ie tax) on regual diesel, then you also need to reduce it on all other kinds of fuel too.
The problem with that, of course, is that tax on fuel is a major income stream for the country (note, country, not government).
And until we manage to vote in a government who are able to spend said income in a more efficient manner, then without this income stream, the country would find itself in an even worse state than it is today.
Of course, the alternative to reducing all fuel tax would be to stop people from using red disel altogether, or increase the tax on that to the levels on normal diesel.
But that wouldn't go down to well either
Of course, if anyone has any better ideas, then this thread is as good a place as any to air them!
