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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!s16g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1813aa8a-9147-486d-99d6-209aa7ccd661@s16g2000prf.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Surprisingly high Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:00:15 -0700 (PDT) References:  <108bec98-3d1f-4832-b35c-3105e4b3f15f@r33g2000prh.googlegroups.com>  <93mvqtF13cU3@mid.individual.net> Lines: 17 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1305903615 19859 127.0.0.1 (20 May 2011 15:00:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 15:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s16g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1977 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:809931

On May 20, 11:58=A0am, JNugent  wrote: > On 20/05/2011 11:24, Simon Mason wrote: > > > On May 20, 10:32 am, Nuxx Bar =A0wrote: > > >> How many of those people do you think would like a car but can't > >> afford one (probably due to things like ridiculously high petrol costs > > > Why does everyone think petrol is expensive? > > They don't. > > It is the tax on it which is expensive.

Absolutely. That's what I meant. Arguably even more unforgivable is that VAT is put on that tax. I wonder how cyclists would react if they were taxed for their road use and then a tax was put on that tax?