fuel protests...i remember them i was in spain when they kicked off in france last time..couldnt get home and was told to pop my car on a ferry at santander by my holiday insurance...at my cost...anyway got back to blighyt a feww days later when the french strike ended and fell straight into the british protest, Dover and a full tank in the 4wd then slipstream a fuel truck up the m40 waiting for him to stop at the services and fill them up..cost me a weeks work three extra days stuck in france and all for what....erm nothing because its made no difference what so ever , prices continued to soar, if they had managed to save the 10p a gallon or whatever it was they were so upset about i think i would just about have got the money back i lost in earnings etc by now..
if you want to protest do it in a way that doesnt cost some of us a small fortune please.
Use your car less.
Buy the kids push bikes.
Move closer to work.
Get the smallest car u can get away with.
Just some ideas.
I filled up yesterday, a litre, cost me £85.
I use my van as little as possible, I work from home, I don't have any kids. I can't afford to buy a newer, more economical vehicle. I live in a rural area where fuel is more expensive anyway. I don't know what the solution is but I don't think protesting is the way forward, it just encourages panic buying which leads to shortages which leads to higher prices. Long term, a sustainable bio alternative which doesn't affect food production worldwide. A pipe dream maybe.
H.x
It's only going to get worse- we're heading for a period of civil unrest that will rival the intensity of the Poll Tax riots of the last century, and it will be a year filled with strikes and industrial action. The labLiar gubmint are expecting it, and are planning for it-the Emergency/Security Services are gearing up their tactical rsponse, and have already ran exercises to train for it.
The cost of living has risen, too sharply, too quickly, and the present gubmint have got the skids under them.
For most people, the options of using the car less/ getting a smaller car/ moving closer to work just aren't financially viable- everybody we know, and I mean everybody, is starting to feel the pinch. Friends who are self employed in the building and construction trades tell me that their order books are getting thinner and thinner. Once houses start to get repossesed and jobs start to go, then anarchists will get willing recruits to their cause, and as the Olympic Torch debacle proved, it doesn't take much of a protest for it to turn nasty. Can you imagine a march on the scale of the poll tax converging on London in the present climate? Give it a few months, and it will be even worse.
Petrol hitting 5 quid a gallon is a huge psychological barrier to cross- and on the day it does, a couple of petrochemical companies announce a rise in profits, just adds fuel (no pun intended) to the fire.
Strangely, the thing that might calm people down would be a change of government- not because any other party might make a better job of it, but just because labLiar are seen to be a busted flush, who are perceived to be corrupt, inept and have lost control. The electorate would give a new goverment time to get to grips with things, and might not be so millitant!
R
unless we all strike as one like the french weve no chance in reducing any of the taxes this goverment imposes on us,the cost of fuel isnt that high but the tax the goverment add to it makes it that way
the goverment can`t lower tax on petrol as they don`t get so much from smokers any more,,,,,,
think we r all getting hit in the pockets n cash is less each week
use to cost last yr £30 to fill up n now its £50,,,
If only there could be a well organised general strike organised and taken part in by the majority of the population for just one day, maybe then the Government may re-think its taxation on fuel policy. It feels as if this government feels believes itself to be untouchable. Maybe it is.
To be honest, no amount of protesting will get the goverment to change to tax on fuel, they have got us by the bollocks and they know it!.
I don't blame the petrol companies, they make very little profit from fuel.
Thinking about the price of petrol, it's actually a very good piece of national security from number 10-come the revolution, we won't be able to afford petrol for our Molotov Cocktails!
R
petrol costs are a big outgoing for me but i have no choice
i cant cycle to work even if i did have a bike, its to far and my job is very physical so id be exhausted
i cant bus it for most of my shifts .... early shifts i cant get on a bus cus they are full of school kids,late shifts means id have over an hours wait at bus stop and wouldnt get home till almost 2 hours after i finished work !
i already have a 1.4 car so cant go much lower than that and its 4 years old and i cant afford newer
im not sure what the answer is altho i dont think the protests will alter the price at all
i would vote for a political party that lowered fuel prices tho
No good asking you for a shag then, too far away, by the time id cycled there id be fucked!!lol
No good asking you for a shag then, too far away, by the time id cycled there id be fucked!!lol
Being a little on the slow side today.....
just been hearing on the radio about the tax increases being imposed on older cars. Can someone clarify for me that it's cars up to
7 years old that will be affected?
The new VED/RFL/Road Tax bands apply to vehicles registered 2001 onwards so anything registered pre 2001 remains the same AFAIK :-)
are the tables to see your car tax cost. Note that cars registered BEFORE 1/03/2001 are subject to the taxation in the top table, while cars registered AFTER 1/03/2001 are subject to the tables below. They are labelled so. As far as I'm concerned, those are the costs. With elections in the offing you should only believe what you can see, not what others tell you. Oh, and whoever is the gov, the fuel cost is not going down, only up.
All the major oil producers are reducing supply to keep the price high, and saudi say they believe that $ is a fair price.
Look on the bright side, soon the "asian boom" is going to bust....based on low oil prices and low labour costs. The first of which is going tits-up, the second following close behind. The next problem will occur when the producers decide to not sell to countries they do not like.....
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LOL