It is absolutely digusting how Gordon Brown(our chancellor) tells the nation that the oil companies are making so much money that they should reduce their prices to ease the price of petrol at the pumps.

As a litre is now effectively a pound, the percentages are clear for everyone to see:

Out of one litre of fuel

65p goes directly to the Government as duty and VAT, for doing nothing and supplying nothing.

23p pays for the product and includes the oil company's profit margin.

12p delivery costs and the retailer's take, to include some sort of profit margin.

We all know that most petrol stations are unable to exist on the sales of petrol alone, they survive by selling drinks, sweets, food etc.

23p for the petrol itself seems very reasonable to me.

Yet 65p for doing absolutely rock all seems eminently unreasonable to me.

RANT!!
Gordon Brown, YOU are the greedy, theiving pregnant goldfish NOT the oil companies. Stop lying to people and start doing something about reducing the price of petrol, you fat, stupid, lazy, git.

Oh by the way many say he will take over from Tony Blair as the Prime minister ...I can't wait.