...and yet, people STILL don't question the 'ethics' of high fuel prices!

Cuh!..I despair..I really do!

In the UK, the price of petrol is an average 83p per litre...that's nearly £5 per gallon in proper money.
When I started driving, it was about £1.30 a gallon....that's only 17 years ago!
There will be a lorry drivers protest this year, like the one we had a few years ago - so, stock up on your groceries and stuff, because the lorry is king, folks - without them...we all die!

Ok...maybe not die...but bloody close!

The government reaps about 86% of every £ spent on fuel in taxes...why?
Where is that money going?

Oh..I know where it's going...it's going towards cutting the truancy of school kids...£880+Million....which didn't work...
Or, maybe it's the £8Million spent on leaflets that tell us what to do in the event of a terrorist attack....
Or, maybe it makes up part of the £500Billion (yes, BILLION) spent on the Arts...

In the world of commerce and industry, if some 'bright spark' had just WASTED that kind of money on a failed inititive, they'd be sacked...not the government...they seem to just shrug their shoulders and think.."oh well, lets try something else.."

Fucking crazy!

But hey, it doesn't matter that our hospitals are shit, and that the education system is shit, or that public transport is shit, or that we are the highest taxed nation in the world, and yet all our public services are....well...SHIT!

I may not be able to do the job of governence, but surely common-sense would indicate a few flaws in the current way of doing things?

Pah!..I forgot...politicians dont have common sense - they have business interests to consider....How are the Bush's doing with their Saudi oil shares

lol....I'm gonna miss getting wound up about the inadequacies of this world...maybe I do need a break lmfaooo
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