Petrol prices

[Millietant]

In Connecticut this summer, petrol was over $4 a gallon; at Christmas it was $2.65 a gallon - that means a 33% reduction in the pump prices.


Looking at diesel in the UK (only because we run  diesel cars, so I notice the price), I'm now seeing/buying it at £1.19 a litre. With the best will in the world it's only come down by £0.15 per litre since the summer - only an 11% reduction.


We're being ripped off here again compared to the rest of the world and as crude prices are basically half what they were in the summer, someone in the middle is making more money than before - if it's not the oil producers and it's not the government (taxes haven't increased), it must be the oil wholesalers. AND who are they, oh! they're owned by the oil producers, what a surprise.


We've been softened up by years of even bigger rip-off's, so now we're all happy about getting ripped-off just a little bit less - rather than demanding that we're treated as fairly as the rest of the world (the one outside of "Europe").


Still not happy that diesel isn't below £1 a litre and petrol isn't around £0.90 a litre !!