FUEL PROTEST???

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:17 am

I dont know it it was on the news or what, just heard from a friend theres a fuel protest this weekend. Is it true??
I noticed loads of queues and pumps out of use but didnt think nothing of it... lol..

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:05 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4236676.stm

MadManMike · Post by **MadManMike** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:35 am

Yeah. Starts tomorrow apparently, for 3 days?

Let's hope it does something.

Â£1 a litre is a joke... as someone said in another fuel post the Saudi's get it for something like Â£0.09 a litre! what a joke!

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:07 pm

Its all Bush's fault!!! The americans are driving their 6.6l+ hummers and what not and paying 20p a litre.

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:05 pm

Apparently theres no need to worry
there will NOT be a fuel protest the same scale as the 2000 one, all i've heard is that theres a 'go slow' on the M1
People are causing the problem themselves by stupidly topping up their tanks and running garages low.
I had to laugh everytime i saw a queue at a petrol station today that backed onto a main road....damn sheep

-Ben-

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:14 pm

Yeah thats all I heard too. I've got half a tank on sat, never get more than half. Dont want the petrol weighing me down.
PPL have lost the plot, my mate queued half hour yesterday.

Alex_6n2 · Post by **Alex_6n2** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:02 pm

i had to wait for an hour to do my weekly fill up

most people were only topping up... what is the point ffs!

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:09 pm

i dont think i could wait that long. I struggle waiting 10 mins yet alone anything more. Not looking forward to waiting at the end of the week, hopefully by then ppl would have come to their senses.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:38 pm

Tesco, Esso and the small independant garage in town have all run dry

Luckily I have half a tank left and use of my sister's car until she sells it, so no need to worry there..

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:24 am

i filled at stupid o clock on sunday morning after work..... and have two "five" (six and a bit, unless the pumps are over-reading*) litre cans in case things get tight.

so i reckon i'll be able to keep the light SDP+commuting schedule (consisting of home<-->local station, home<-->pub in next suburb along, home<-->nottingham at not particularly high speeds even when in a blinding hurry) running alright for a couple weeks so long as i can exercise some quite powerful self control and not floor it everywhere...... after all power corrupts..... power available with a simple dip of the toes on your right foot corrupts absolutely. Or something like that. Three days? Pfft. Bring it.

i shall be announcing a UKP MPG challenge in a bit in a seperate topic, if i dont fall down either asleep or rather drunk in the next few minutes. both are likely.

oh, and pick your favourite / car colour, or the closest/best co-ordinating anyway...
Olive Green
Cherry Red

sorted

ok, it does pretty much double the price per litre first time you store something in there, but i think having a twenty litre/near-five-gallon reserve is more than worth it if everything goes dry... and its cheaper/easier than getting four five-litre cans. probably.

zahir_213 · Post by **zahir_213** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:58 am

do you think the goverment will be forced to reduce tax or is that staying there for good even with stupid fuel prices?

metz · Post by **metz** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:23 pm

If they don't do something they will throw the country into a resession, haulage company's will close and the workers have to go on the dole..other companys that rely on transport will close as their prices will rise and people will go elsewhere and people in minimum wage jobs won't be able to get to work as the petrol costs will be too much for them so half the country will be on the dole.

has tony thought of that situation while hes driving about in his jag?

can someone just bump him and his useless twats off please.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:06 pm

yeah........ i echo that..... you think all this "anti-terror" legistlation is aimed at protecting the british populace? if you examine it just a bit more closely, and consider the guy's character (and that of his comrades, along with politically dodgy stuff dug up about their past by papers on slow news days) it sure sounds more aimed towards protecting themselves from any action by an increasing number of hacked-off british citizens.

hell as like the fuel duty will be coming down ... without the token protest we had, it seems from a radio news story today, they wouldn't even have frozen the planned Duty Escalator rise that was going to be added in the next few weeks! as i've already said - so long as the treasury is raking in serious amounts of our hard-earned from the scheme, they're not going to take a single penny in the pound off fuel tax.
(mind you, it's a handy way of enforcing lower car usage and more economic driving --- though really, some way of giving petrol "subsidy", ie not as ludicrous tax, to the more vulnerable users, e.g. domestic hauliers, elderly/disabled and those in remote locations sure could do with being introduced, even if it's a rebate/cashback scheme)

as a somewhat brighter mate of mine pointed out - since i introduced him to some of the shadier, less well publicised bills that have passed into british statute recently - HM govt now has Civil Contingency emergency powers to do whatever the hell it likes to keep the fuel moving, at whatever cost they want it to be sold for, under whatever rationing conditions they feel like. want to have a guess who'll be getting top cream of the rations BEFORE the emergency and armed forces, eh?
in fact they could quite happily seize the fuel out of anyone's tank, ban stocking-up even more than it currently is (you might be surprised to know that the maximum "unlicensed" - ie not on a taxed forecourt - fuel store a commoner can have is probably less than that in a hummer's tank), and seize/crush the vehicles protesters might use to blockade refineries or go-slow the roads with, as well as slapping them in royal offshore pound-you-in-the-ass prison.

so be careful out there.

but... not like the protests had any great effect or were very well organised. slap bang in the middle of a working day in the middle of the working week, for crying out loud! i'd have had trouble getting permission to go campaign the G8 summit, someone in my position sure hasn't the wherewithal to cry a day off to protest fuel prices on a work day. Refineries and major roads are a 24/7 concern, so why not organise the thing on a damn weekend, or at least out of hours?
At least the (ineffectual, but at least HUGE turnout) M4 speed camera protests were scheduled for rush hour...

edli83 · Post by **edli83** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:47 am

guest the protest didnt happen, kiss was saying this morning that only about 2 ppl showed up to the blockades, wheres your commitment ppl

1Â£ petrol from now on then

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:00 am

lol,,,

Ah well,,, Â£1 it is....
Nice to see the dedication of those protestors who over slept haha
They must've woke up & thought ahh f*ck this!!