Petrol prices

Extortionate prices been paid at the pumps. Western Governments blame the unease in the Middle East. Bullshit. I balme the high taxes. For every litre I put in I have to pay just under a £ in taxes. What do they do with the taxes? Spend it on arms to fight the very places where there is "unease". Driving on roads in the UK is like driving in Jamaica or any 4th world country. Pot holes everywhere. We pay £50 a year for a mot. You take your car to the garage and they check it over to see if its road worthy. What does that help if when you drive out of the garage you drive over a pot hole and it knackers your tyre or a spring. We also pay for a MOT tax disc once a year costing anything from £140 to £500 a year depending on what type of car you drive. Not forgetting the tax on fuel. Within 15 years most people will stop driving. Then you will see the price of fuel come down to next ot nothing.

So politicians enjoy your slap up dinners and lunches and copious bottles of Veuve Clicquot Champagne and your free first class travel and your 2nd and 3rd homes that we the stupid idiotic gullible fools pay for just to make your lives that much easier. Stand up against these thieves I say.

Just under R11 per lit here in Cape Town

We tried to 'boycott' BP a few times by filling up at Shell, Total or Sasol......but nothing helps

Not a boffin on how much tax the ANC takes, but I think that 95% over our budget is made up from taxes charged on smokes, booze, toll-roads(only joking, but not for long) and petrol

Eish

Gauteng to pay an extra 4 cents for the new pipeline. What about the savings from road freight.

Trying driving in Zimbabwe,there are so many potholes you actually try to look for the tarred road and at times cant find it.

Why not just join them if you cant beat them. Buy as many petroleum shares you can afford...

And you can include the farkin tolls in Gauteng:X... What amazes me is the taxi's don't have to pay, they the ones that cause the most accidents on our roads!!!

Guys I am in Saudi at the moment 0.45 or in our money R0,90 a liter.
Then again there is nothing else but sand here.

Pipeline tariff to add to fuel price
Mar 15 2012 17:15

A 31.6% increase granted to Transnet on tariffs for its fuel pipeline is likely to add 4c more in April to the price of fuel sold in Gauteng.

Johannesburg - The petrol price in Gauteng may rise another four cents a litre in April following the National Energy Regulator of South Africa's (Nersa's) announcement on Thursday of new tariffs for Transnet's petroleum pipelines.

"If the minister of energy decides to use the pipeline tariff as a proxy for the cost of transporting fuel from Durban to Johannesburg, as has been the case in the past, the consequent petrol price rise is expected to be 4 cents per litre," Nersa said.

Petrol is already due to increase by 28c/litre in April.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced in his budget that the general fuel levy on petrol and diesel would increase by 20c/litre and the Road Accident Fund would increase by 8c/litre.

In the light of Nersa's announcement, it could now increase by 32c/litre in Gauteng.

This did not take into account possible fuel price increases to be announced by the Central Energy Fund at the end of March.

The new pipeline tariffs apply from April 2012 to April 2013.

Transnet had applied for an 83.3% hike in its allowable revenue that would have resulted in a 12.5c/ litre increase in inland petroleum product prices.

It wanted this large increase to help pay for its new multi-product pipeline (NMPP).

"Transnet has raised significant debt to fund its NMPP project and it sought substantial additional funding to satisfy ratings agencies that it had sufficient revenue to cover its debt repayments," Nersa said.

Nersa had published a draft tariff determination for public comment proposing a 76.7% rise in allowable revenue.

"There was strong opposition from many quarters to an increase of this magnitude."

Nersa had weighed various factors, including the public interest, regulatory certainty, the NMPP project reaching its peak and current and future debt funding.

"Consequently, Nersa has set petroleum pipeline tariffs that will allow Transnet to realise a 31.6% increase in allowable revenue compared to the 2011/12 tariff period."

These c**ts are bleeding the lower/middle class dry...:X

Although I haven't read anything or studied anything I am convinced it is cheaper to live in the UK than in SA. What with private police, pensions, medical, education, tariffs, tolls, i even thought the cost of food (barring meat) was more economical than in SA.

Smell the coffee, clansmen.

Everything changes. And what is changing right now is this ; Everything we take for granted is running out. Fast. I don't want to make a prediction as to the future price of crude but I can assure you that identifiable reserves are a rumoured to be a lot lower than those quoted by your friendly oil company executives.

Same goes for food, water and pretty much everything else.

This is no Armageddon posting - just a resigned acceptance of the developing status quo. Makes me glad that I am unlikely to be around in 30 years' time........................

Yet NOWHERE do you see any meaningful steps to contain population growth. It is just not high on any agendas. Yet we cull and control everything except ourselves. Everything ends sooner or later. We will not be immune from this evolutionary reality.

Good one Garrick will be discussing the "right to die" on my next scotia post to at least make a small contribution. -