Does fuel cost way to much? Yes! It is killing many small business fact! UPDATED

One thing that seems to be a truth held self everdent is petrol/Diesel cost way to much (Gas) and it does not mater if your in the Uk,US,Germany,Etc. It just is.
I will try to aviod ranting and just look at the facts like I tried on the MP pay rise blog.
The cost of fuel is effected by many factors.
And is more complex to make than some people may realise.

Does Petrol cost to much ? YES!

But why?
Lets look at this in a simply as possible way.
1 finding oil Costs money
2 drilling oil costs money
3 shipping oil to be refined costs money
4 refining oil costs money
5 shipping/transporting oil to petrol stations costs money
6 selling the petrol/fuel to end user make money
That is 5 stage at the simplest before the likes of BP make any money (and that is forgetting certain things like Human resources and its costs and the like_Etc..)

But are they been greedy I mean they make billions in profit every year?
Again lets face it there used to be loads of petrol stations in the UK and loads have closed. Are the profit that big per unit? After all BP sell millions/billions  of units every year. So their profit look massive but that is primarily due to the sheer amount of petroleum products sold every year rather than been excessive profit per unit.

Lets consider this a average Truck need £1000 plus a week in fuel about £800 goes to government.(older figures please correct me if I am wrong on these +Road Haulage Association or +Freight Transport Association  ) This is where the problem lies firmly at the feet of the government not the oil companies.

As a small business Clark trading has go use fuel to do many things thankfully we can limit our mileage in a way some other sectors can not. Like haulage high fuel price have and still do push business to the wall,there is only so much you can shallow or pass along to the customer. Before they go else where.

The high fuel taxation in the UK is bad for business and the customer! It is bad for every one

It is about time the Mps saw this simple fact  ! AND ACTED.! REDUCE FUEL DUTY TO GET THE UK MOVING AGAIN/FASTER IT IS A BRAKE ON THE COUNTRY'S GROWTH BUT NO IT SEEM EVERY TIME THE BUDGET COMES ALONG EVEN MORE TAX IS HEAPED ON THE POOR MOTORIST. 

And just to prove the point why does diesil cost more than Petrol? (UK) when it is a simpler fuel because it has even more tax on than petrol. 

Fuel in the UK is double taxed. 

 +Federation of Small Businesses