Remember Cameron's promise of a road fuel price stabiliser? Then he told us it was TOO difficult; well - the French Government AND the oil companies have REDUCED the price of road fuel – and French fuel was cheaper than ours to start with, especially diesel.

http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/08/28/shoul ... price-cut/

That 6 cents a litre, is that similar in value to my Tesco 5p off a litre cos we spent over £50 last weekend ?

I appreciate the French sentiment but isn't 6 cents a litre just a drop in the ocean ?

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i wonder how the UK books would books would balance , if vat was 10% , on everything , across the board
and no excise taxes .just 10% , food books , children s cloths etc
it would be far easier to work out , so less government staff
OAPs of course would get some kind of compensation , or a rise , as they are on a fixed income
and child allowance increase , if on children s cloths , but only for the first two born , and child allowance stopping at two children
more cars would be sold , and more petrol consumed ,
if the government want to restrict smoking , alcohol , etc , just restrict the sale
but never any increase of tax

Thats something that really riles me Kremmen. As a single person I rarely, if ever spend £50 in a supermarket shop, so don't get the benefit of 5p off a litre of fuel. I cant work out whether Tesco are doing these regular deals as a 'loss leader', or they are making that much profit out of petrol/diesel sales that a 5p a litre drop doesn't impact them too much.

Because they offer these deals so often, I suspect the latter.

I must admit I despise this company for its overwhelming dominance in the local area.

I was lucky to get it as the norm is Mrs Krem goes there every day and gets a bagful. We still spend a fair whack, just not in one go.

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MY CAR was designed as an experiment to burn oil faster than the Arabs can get it out of the ground

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Its not always the biggest and the bestest, its them that make the least mistakes.

... and I bet it's successful

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My latest car has been ruined by the MOT test. The second car I've had to scrap after the engine was jiggered by the MOT. I wonder how many thousands of cars are ruined by the ridiculous way they race engines for ages during MOT tests. Grrrrr.

After the MOT in February, there was a very slight clicking noise coming from the engine. A month ago it seized up. The garage I bought it from reckons that during the MoT the timing belt probably slipped a notch and over the months the problem has got worse; they told me it happens quite a lot. I had a beautiful 8 series Rover in the 90s which was wrecked by the MoT, the engine was clapped out. In both cases, I'd checked the oil was OK before the MoT.

I often wonder about some of these MOT stations and the monkeys they employ.

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Why would they need to race the engine? Something to do with the emissions test?

Lots of modern cars require a timing belt change at a major service the interval can be anything from 30,000 to 75,000 miles. The belts/chains only have a certain life and as in anything have to be renewed.

Whenever I have bought a second hand motor I have always checked the status of the belt against mileage and the last time it was changed either by asking the previous owner or consulting the service history. If I cannot id when it was done I get them to do it on the next service. Better to pay a couple hundred £ for what you know is a safe and new timing belt than risk it breaking and completely fubarring the engine which it usually does as the valve stems get bent.