Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "WARNING: Be Aware Of MASSIVE Change At Tesco And Sainsburys Fuel Pumps - Your Money Could Be At Risk" video.

More like greed of the suppliers at all levels.
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In other words, capitalism at work.
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If more people had smaller, more economic cars instead of status symbols and only drove them when actually necessary, the oil companies would suffer as would the government due to loss of tax income (not only from the fuel sales but also from less road tax).
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@djgoode It does make me laugh when people complain that there electric car will only do 250 miles or whatever. When you think that the average annual mileage is only somewhere round 12,000 and most people only drive 20 or 30 miles a day to and from work it is total nonsense. If a manufacturer came out with a practical EV with ordinary car performance and a 100 mile range it would be vastly cheaper, could easily be much lower tech and would meet many people's needs. Despite the eccentricity, the Citroen Ami at around £6500 would be perfect for huge numbers of people who live in cities which is exactly what it is aimed at.
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@johndilloway9762 It is exactly what capitalism is all about. Push the profiteering and greed until the customer gets fed up.
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@effdiffeyeno171 If you "like" to be able to do things rather than "have" to then that is entirely up to you and is what is called a privilege. I do many things that I "like" to do that are enormously expensive but never complain really about the cost because it is what I want to do. Never complain about things over which you have control.
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@cornishhh As I said, rather than aim at high performance and long range, why not practical cars for ordinary people? I think the answer is probably to do with the status symbol culture around new cars as much as anything these days.
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The UK used to produce fuel, maybe if it was state owned greed would not make prices too high.
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@six7529 Most of the cost might be tax and the government might not spend it so wisely but they have to get it somewhere, specially now that so many people pay zero road tax. The problem with the oil companies and retailers is as someone else pointed out, that when oil prices start to go up pump prices shoot up but when they start to go down the pump prices lag behind. There is also another subtle issue. Oil tankers will often wait offshore to unload their cargo if it seems that they will get a better price by waiting which although it makes business sense does artificially inflate prices further.
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@djgoode That is how it should be, but as I have said, many EVs seem to be focused on higher than typical performance and extended range when most ordinary people really don't need either and that really jumps the price up and thus the potential depreciation.
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@cornishhh A latter day 2CV.
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@djgoode The big issue is that very many people could never dream of buying a new or even nearly new car and by the time an EV is affordable it will be close to it's end of life.
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@djgoode That can be the case, but most of my cars have cost less than 4k and my last two Shoguns were only around £1500 and lasted 3 or so years before I scrapped them and got about£400 back.
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