- British truck drivers (they call trucks "lorries" over there) are protesting the rising cost of diesel, which has risen to the equivalent of $10 per gallon in U.S. dollars. Truckers are driving around with signs on their rigs and say the high cost of fuel is putting them out of business.

 

Thank god that a lot of the price over there is taxes.

 

Taxes and transportation of the fuel puts it up there in price.

 

Whats sad is that the higher cost of gas has stopped some small business from giving cost of living raises to employees this year. The reason I know this is because my wife works for one of them and was told no employee will get a COL raise in their paycheck this year and may be next too unless things chaneg fior the better grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

I've heard that they(British) pay 3-4 dollars in taxes per gallon/litre something about health insurance? My Aunt said she saw something on the tv about it. Sux either way you look at it. A friend of mine says buy ammo, may get bad enough you'll have to protect your home....if you can afford to keep it.

 

well did i read that British have the highest taxes in the world! Man its time for drastic change. sush yo mouff

 

the same people said the same about Y2K, and every working structure fire turned into a guessing game of how much fuel and ammo might this person be storing in his home/business?!?! Mad Max was just a movie!

 

Hmm, let's see... $600-$700 a month to feed my truck for work and $640 a month for profiteering health insurance plus $1200 a year deductible with the sorriest public transportation system in any industrialized country... Click click, carry the nine, divided by... hmm... UK's fuel taxes pay for their public transportation and health care. Overall, it's about the same or less per month expenditures.

 

I know I havent got a cost of living raise in years and my current salary is what I was making in 1998. Get laid off and sometimes the only jobs you can get are ones with lower salaries, on top of the drop in the worth of the dollar. Its bad out there.
the reason europe pays a lot is because theyre mostly taxed to death over there.
There will be efforts to try that here in the guise of overzealous environmentalism, but in the end its a tax and the govt gets fat off of it.

 

interesting... I hadn't looked at it like that before.


noticed you are in W central FL. lemme guess...Tarpon Springs? Clearwater?