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Posted by Majorman on July 29, 2006 at 09:31:48 from (86.141.135.56):
In Reply to: Re: Gas prices you know it bad when posted by MN Bob on July 29, 2006 at 06:04:04:
Our diesel price is around £1.03 ($1.56)a litre or £5.15 ($$7.80) a gallon. Costs me about £70.00 ($109.20) to fill my car. A lot of this is tax. We pay a fuel tax and Value Added tax on the fuel tax. Even with all the tax though, Royal Dutch Shell have just posted profits of £1.7 million per HOUR. Thats $265,200,000, according to my calculator per HOUR. The best profits the company has made for years. Wonder why our government won't support alternative energy sources from oil seeds and sugarbeet.
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