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Falling fuel prices and car tax

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    #122
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Some here are suffering from Metathesiophobia. The fear of change. Axe the tax now!


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    #123
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,113 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    And denial isn't just a river in Africa.


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    #124
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I have adapted. I'm lecturing no one just raising the question. What are some posters afraid of?


    Extra carbon taxes are coming anyway.


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    #125
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    bazz26 wrote: »
    And denial isn't just a river in Africa.


    What?


    Daft post.


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    #126
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,113 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    saabsaab wrote: »
    What?


    Daft post.

    The irony is lost on you.


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    #127
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    I updated the poll as it wasn't fully explained


    That is unfair!

    This wasn't done before check the facts. Tax was removed from some cars but not all and wasn't added to excise!
    Do you not like the results?


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    #128
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,113 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    lol


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    #129
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I hope people here see what is going on. Derailing the thread because they don't like what it is saying.

    Play the ball not the man!


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    #130
    R.O.R
    Registered Users Posts: 12,672 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Or, they are just fed up with the same sh1te as last time.


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    #131
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    R.O.R wrote: »
    Or, they are just fed up with the same sh1te as last time.


    They are free to tune out no one is forcing anyone to read this thread.


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    #132
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    The thread seems to be hijacked by a mod of all people!


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    #133
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    I updated the poll as it wasn't fully explained. Just in case people didnt think a 68% rate of tax on fuel wasnt enough.


    Why don't you respond?


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    #134
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Why don't you respond?


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    #135
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    The silence is deafening on this thread now.


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    #136
    snoopboggybog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭snoopboggybog


    saabsaab wrote: »
    The silence is deafening on this thread now.

    Is everything okay with you?

    You have an unhealthy obsession of abolishing car tax for some reason and now just posting to bump the thread hoping people will see this thread and reply to you.

    Its kind of creepy.


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    #137
    SBPhoto
    Registered Users Posts: 544 ✭✭✭SBPhoto


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Wash, rinse, repeat....

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058044429

    You do know we are on a lockdown of sorts, Bazz some people get bored easily


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    #138
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I think it's a weird thing for a mod to change the questions on a poll mid post. Especially without consultation with the OP and with an error.


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    #139
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭wally79


    saabsaab wrote: »
    I think it's a weird thing for a mod to change the questions on a poll mid post. Especially without consultation with the OP and with an error.

    I think it’s weird to have a hidden poll in the first place.


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    #140
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    wally79 wrote: »
    I think it’s weird to have a hidden poll in the first place.


    I didn't want to influence anyone. Result visible in a few days. If it's allowed to stay.


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    #141
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    saabsaab wrote: »
    I didn't want to influence anyone. Result visible in a few days. If it's allowed to stay.


    Why would result influence anyone?


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    #142
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Why would result influence anyone?


    It's well known that some people are swayed by the trend goes in making a vote. Less of a distraction too.


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    #143
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,283 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    wally79 wrote: »
    I’d say the petrol stations across the border would agree with the OP

    There would be a very sharp drop in tax from the border counties

    and a massive uptake in VAT from companies selling fuel bowsers.

    2500l UN road transport approved bunded fuel bowser is £3-4k depending on where you get it , not calculating for the bulk buying discount but you'd pay for the thing in 10 fills if it went 16 cent over the north.I use about 90-100 litres of diesel a week, id have to go up north twice a year which I do more than that anyway, 5 years in on a bowser that most have a 10-15 year warranty and its paid for itself, yet again with no bulk discount.


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    #144
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    and a massive uptake in VAT from companies selling fuel bowsers.


    In the period 2010 to 2011 the price of diesel went up from ave 1.22 to 1.41. A 19c increase!

    I don't recall any massive disruption due to it. Maybe people drove a bit less.


    We are talking about something similar here, less if you take into account inflation.


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    #145
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Post has gone quiet. Anyway I think a good case has been made.


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    #146
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Post has gone quiet. Anyway I think a good case has been made.


    You should submit a bill to the Seanad


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    #147
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    You should submit a bill to the Seanad


    Thanks for your input.


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    #148
    turbocab
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭turbocab


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Thanks for your input.
    you should play the system to you best , idrive a Mondeo every day 200 euro tax , and a 5litre v8 Porsche 928 at weekends 56to tax,


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    #149
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    turbocab wrote: »
    you should play the system to you best , idrive a Mondeo every day 200 euro tax , and a 5litre v8 Porsche 928 at weekends 56to tax,


    Thanks for the advice but I'd like a generally fairer system overall. What you say would be an option for just a few.


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    #150
    teediddlyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭teediddlyeye


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Thanks for the advice but I'd like a generally fairer system overall. What you say would be an option for just a few.

    Why do you think the current system isn't fair?

    "I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal."- Charlie Manson



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    #151
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    teediddlyeye wrote: »
    Why do you think the current system isn't fair?

    I'd guess because he drives a high tax older car and does fcuk all miles and cycles about the place. Not that he'll tell us. He's been asked enough times.


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