Fuel Protest May 8th 2011
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hahaha thats funny, a law against striking which is our right lmao. as you said though only in the UK. they will also be staging a go slow which will be fun if you are trying to get anywhere. it happened in 2008 i believe with good results. ok so maybe fuel depots are out of the question but there must be something that will really get under thier skin, maybe blocking every enterance into london, but that could be going a bit too far lol. there would probably be more pedestrian injuries as a result as noone would hear that G-wiz flying up behind them as they crossed the road pmfsl
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15 miles on a tank that small isnt too bad. depending on how i drive i could get 20 miles either way on the alfa
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I was surprised, I thought it would be under 100 miles for a tank but its not that different, that stinking 1.8 Zafira I had was worse than the MX for fuel. There was one thing good from it I forgot to put in the revue my mate from work spent the same week in polpero for deep sea fishing trips and I met up with him and he gave me a bag of gutted mackerel for a barbeque, but as tesco bags leak so badly, I put them under the carpet in the boot on the 2 extra seats, they were hanging with fish juice when I got them out again so that car will have a funny smell for a while :lol: :lol:
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@507846ba2d=djmarcopolo:
and they made a law meaning you can go to prison for blocking the distribution of fuel so its pointless now.
You can protest on the streets but that would = to nothing.
What you could do tho, is block the motorway (there is still a route for the tankers to go) and it would get so much press coverage it would be unreal.It would force the tankers to go down smaller roads, but would not block them off.
Takes more time, gas and general ware and tare on the trucks as well.. make it more expensive for them to deliver it.
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I think that is what the go slow is for, i didnt realise there was a law against blockading the depots so the go slow will have almost as much of an impact, ie forcing the filling trucks to go slower to deliver the fuel to the outlets. here is some footage from about 2 mins away from my house from 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7428981.stm there is a video at the bottom of the page.
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If you could manage to get a large majority of this country to stick together and block fuel depots etc, then the government would have no choice to act, as they would not be able to throw say 5 million people in jail. Trouble is, try getting 5 million people to break the law without always fearing the worst, it ain't gonna happen, people moan like fuck in this country about lots of things but never act on their words, shame really because I feel strongly about certain things but why should I put myself at risk for the benefit of others that moan but can't be arsed to back up their words, shame eh?
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i totally agree, we moan about everything here. I can understand why they are doing it but i would rather pay £1.00 per litre and have an extra 1p on every item at the shops, ( a full food shop would add an extra 70p to my bill) at least that would be virtually unnoticable. but when you drive past every forecourt and see how much it has gone up it makes my blood boil. lets be honest here, if something is £9.99 you say in your head a tenner so that penny is already written off. you can see where i am going here. in fact i believe they could lower prices to well below £1.00 per litre if they were to do this. over £6 per gallon is just wrong. If the governmant were to tax those stupid G-wiz things and cyclists they could lower the cost of fuel even further. lets just hope that the word gets out and enough people do the right thing lol. (well in my eyes anyway) its worth a week of disruption if the government could lower the price of fuel in my eyes and if they dont, well at least we made a stand
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with the 2.5% hike in VAT your already doing that dan, so youd think this were completely unnecessary. One thing that boggles me, is that they dropped vat to 15% then go and hike it back up to 20%, surely that nullifies the point of dropping it in the first place? I totally agree with you on the 1p more thing, I have a savings option on my lloyds account that is called save the change, on every transaction I make including direct debits and standing orders, it rounds it up to the pound and takes the rounded up amount and puts it in a seperate savings account, even on all the transactions I still struggle to end up with more than about a fiver in there each month, so you really wouldnt notice it.
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you guys are much nicer than they guys on the alfa romeo forum pmsl. now i miss my mx even more hahaha
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Papa Jesta was telling me this morning that now Bin laden is dead oil prices have aready dropped 20cents a barrel, not much, but its a start, he said that the americans are expected to start spending more in celebration or some weirdness, you know how they are.
Also saidd about conflicts in siberia and libia, which is likely causing a problem, but also that the barrel prices have gone up by 25% since last year, so thats why were paying more, 25% of £1 takes it to £1.25, so its not that far off really if you think about the fact that the barrel price has gone up, he said its not so much governmental but its worldwide increases, that said we are paying a ridiculous amount in comparision to the rest of the world, retarded when you think we have our own refinery's and oil rigs.
Does my tits in when you hear americans complaining about rip of fuel prices, like theyd know, they pay something daft like £2 for a US gallon (4.0litres iirc) which is nothing, were paying just short of 3x that! Doesnt help that most of them drive terribly maintained vehicles or ones that are massive engined, that said, if we had their fuel prices, Id have myself a KLZE :D