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Title: The Budget
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 24 March 2010, 12:33:23
Well it is 1232 as I type this, so before the budget.

However just been to our local Sainsbury's and the price of both diesel and unleaded has lept 5p to 118.9 per litre!! >:( >:( >:(

What else is to come????? :( :( :( :(
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Lazydocker on 24 March 2010, 12:46:50
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Well it is 1232 as I type this, so before the budget.

However just been to our local Sainsbury's and the price of both diesel and unleaded has lept 5p to 118.9 per litre!! >:( >:( >:(

What else is to come????? :( :( :( :(

Didn't think that happened until midnight tonight :-/ :-/

Got it on in the background
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Seth on 24 March 2010, 13:10:05
Both unleaded and diesel are around £1.20 per litre in these parts already!
 >:(
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Del Boy on 24 March 2010, 13:15:17
Was £1.16 there monday LZ, suprised we didn't see you there, we were there about that time.
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: cmeonthemove on 24 March 2010, 13:30:29
Seeing this coming I filled the Elite up yesterday and used up the Clubcard vouchers.
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: tunnie on 24 March 2010, 14:05:36
good news for me, stamp duty has been doubled to £230k
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Hannah Judes Dad on 24 March 2010, 14:18:10
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good news for me, stamp duty has been doubled to £230k

£250k to fist time buyers only, so you have another £20,000 to look forward to losing using on your first home
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Banjax on 24 March 2010, 14:42:59
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Well it is 1232 as I type this, so before the budget.

However just been to our local Sainsbury's and the price of both diesel and unleaded has lept 5p to 118.9 per litre!! >:( >:( >:(

What else is to come????? :( :( :( :(

it's only a 3p rise and that's phased in from April through to January so where they get a 5p increase now beats me  ::)
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Sixstring on 24 March 2010, 14:46:51
Just come from my local Tesco's, and they are putting it up to £1.19 a litre!!

Bloody disgusting.

"Born free, taxed to death!!"
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Debs. on 24 March 2010, 15:57:00
I pumped £30.`s worth into the 'pup-mobile' at Asda 118.9p/l at 10.45 this morning.....passed 2 hours later; 122.9p/l.

.....blatant profiteering! >:(

I can see a time (quite soon) when I wont be able to run a car at all......it`s standing outside the house most of the week as it is; due purely to the cost of fuel. ('anywhere' from here, seems to be 50+ miles of low-MPG type roads each way)....what between heating-oil and petrol: fuel is now, by-far my biggest monthly outgoing. :'(
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: STMO999 on 24 March 2010, 16:31:08
Any rises in fuel today cannot be blamed on the government. It's more to do with the pound being worth $1.485 and the retailers profiteering.
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: STMO999 on 24 March 2010, 16:34:40
My missus does about 240 miles a week in her 1.6 astra, works out at £30. I'm certainly glad I got rid of my omega and my alfa. Oh,and my ZT, that tinker was giving me about 22mpg.
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: PhilRich on 24 March 2010, 16:36:45
Profiteering should be a 'Capital' Offence! We all know businesses must make a reasonable profit & shareholders expect a reasonable return on their investment, but this is just taking the pith! >:(
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 24 March 2010, 17:03:29
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Was £1.16 there monday LZ, suprised we didn't see you there, we were there about that time.

£1.189 today Del! :o :o :o :o

Just gets worse! :'( :'(


Luckily Del I filled the tank right up the other day when it was £1.139 :D :D :D
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: Del Boy on 24 March 2010, 17:11:33
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Was £1.16 there monday LZ, suprised we didn't see you there, we were there about that time.

£1.189 today Del! :o :o :o :o

Just gets worse! :'( :'(


Luckily Del I filled the tank right up the other day when it was £1.139 :D :D :D
Sue put £20 in today, the BM has to have Super in it at 1.21p  :o Thank god I've got a 1.3 diesel  :D
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: albitz on 24 March 2010, 18:11:56
This budget is probably pretty meaning less imo. Whoever wins the election it is pretty certain that Darling wont be chancellor afterwards so there is a good chance of another budget soon after the election which could turn this one upside down.
His figures are based on growth presumed to be over 3% p.a. - cloud cuckoo land.
Overall - fiddling while Rome burns springs to mind  - Nero Darling. ::)
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: STMO999 on 25 March 2010, 15:40:18
Unleaded was 113.9p at my local ASDA this morning, so a lot of regional variation.
Title: Re: The Budget
Post by: hoofing it on 25 March 2010, 21:32:59
It's about time this country took a leaf out of france's book and call for a national strike protests etc those a-holes in greed land would sit up and listen then or am I just dreaming ::)
still think of those poor soles in the rural parts paying £1.25+ a litre :'(