Why do we let petrol stations rip us off?

[posthere 10]

Several times I've been to one particular garage, carefully put in exactly a tenner (I always check the amount when i put the nozzle back in its rest), and gone to the till to find it's £10.01.

 

I know it's only a penny but I'm sure they are somehow fiddling it.

 

Last time it happened I said I had no more money so they let me off.

 

This used to happen to me alot!! Exactly the same thing, put £10 in and when you get inside the shop it's gone up to £10.01. Last month I started to get my own back buy putting in 1p less. eg, if I have £20 to put in I will put £19.99 in and when it comes to paying I wait until I receive my 1p change. I get funny looks but im sick of getting ripped off.

[MrNM 10]

Oh! dear God, NO! I would walk to work or stay home before I would buy oil from Chavez, he sponsors terrorism for one........

 

Cheap fuel is cheap fuel!

[md25 10]

Huge Chav is actually selling it at a loss to America's enemies purely to stick two fingers up at Bush. Go burn some Stars and Stripes, get on the telly and maybe he'll sell it to you

[MrNM 10]

Huge Chav is actually selling it at a loss to America's enemies purely to stick two fingers up at Bush. Go burn some Stars and Stripes, get on the telly and maybe he'll sell it to you

 

So whats his beef with the US?

[md25 10]

So whats his beef with the US?

• Chavez is Socialist
• the US is the largest capitalist economy in the history of the Earth
• Socialists loathe capitalists
• So Chavez will stop at nothing to take the US down a peg or two
• even if that means giving away petrol to Cuba
• which really winds up everyone in Florida
• and so on
• I like lists

[Mr Goose 10]

• Chavez is Socialist
• the US is the largest capitalist economy in the history of the Earth
• Socialists loathe capitalists
• So Chavez will stop at nothing to take the US down a peg or two
• even if that means giving away petrol to Cuba
• which really winds up everyone in Florida
• and so on
• I like lists

 

You missed the obvious one

 

- The US has a terrible record of interferring in South America, including assassinations, support for vile dictators and illegal invasions to prop up their supporters (even if they were voted out democraticaly)

[STT-Jag 10]

Petrol prices are unbelievable wherever in the country you go, to be honest. I'm really glad I don't own a car.

 

I was talking to some friends in America the other night, and they were saying how awful it was that 'gas is now over $4/gallon'. That's only 44p/litre converted to our measurements. They were aghast when I told them in the UK it's equivalent to over $10/gallon.

 

you may not own a car but you depend on the transport system and the cost of fuel as this governs the price of most things, including but not an exhaustive list;

 

1, food (how does it get to the supermarket)

2, buses (last time i looked they were dependant on oil as well)

3, taxis (again oil derived products)

4, the fishing industry,

5, your cycle tyres, didnt magically apear in the store

 

if the cost of oil (or tax on said product) goes up then this is passed on down the line, either way we all lose out whether we use a car or not.

[RedRocker 10]

Ah the joy of LPG!!! 55p a litre!!! Fuel Crisis?? What Crisis!!!

[Cyclone 10]

In exactly the same scam I've spotted that Waitrose charge more for beans than Asda, and they are only 2 miles apart.

Why do we let Waitrose get away with it?

[theripsaw 10]

Oh! dear God, NO! I would walk to work or stay home before I would buy oil from Chavez, he sponsors terrorism for one........

 

What naughty things do you think Bush gets up to to get his oil?!

[chem1st 10]

Its ridiculous how much they charge for snacks etc and water.

[splodgeyAl 10]

In exactly the same scam I've spotted that Waitrose charge more for beans than Asda, and they are only 2 miles apart.

Why do we let Waitrose get away with it?

 

and similarly sainsbury's on london road charges more for sainsbury's butter than the sainsbury's on the moor