I think it's more about getting the government to drop the ridiculous duty on fuel

I think it's more about getting the government to drop the ridiculous duty on fuel

It's not going to happen.......as they haven't put it up in the first place and if they did drop it then they would have raise the tax somewhere else to fund it.....I quite like it where it is ...if you use fuel you pay the tax

Not really... they could stop spending on dole-scum and illegals.

The ONLY way to bring prices down is for everyone to use LESS fuel ........the lower the demand the lower the price....simple

thats why fuel goes up in the summer and slightly drops at the start of autumn, cos of the americans driving season.

As for not paying money to the illegals and scum and unemployed. why not bring back in the work houses they had many years ago?

XD haha.

I totally agree, dont give the chav's any doll money, get them a job instead. (even at the job centre)

That will lower the fuel tax costs.

There must be another way to reduce the fuel costs?

Maybe squeeze every mile per gallon you can out of your car?

But people are already doing that, so that ones out the window.

Personnally what im going to do, if they increase road tax, (and fuel per litre) on my car next year to stupid money, im leaving it on the drive to rust! :eek:

I'm going to take my very economical motorcycle everywhere instead.

And i will have to walk to the supermarket (or take 4 trips lol:rolleyes:)

Walk the kids to school ( no i dont have kids, but if i did)

I personnally believe that the supposed fuel protests are useless, as many of you have pointed out already, they just put the prices UP! Then people panic buy, and its going into the petrol suppliers pocket, for their staff (or maybe not there staff, but a greedy BMW driving tw@ at upper management)

The sunday protest is spam, i got several emails from people about it, its just pointless to rise to it. It won't work, and you waste fuel going there!

So why beat ourselfs up about it?

If you need your car for work, then your going to need fuel to get there, and if you don't, you won't have money to pay your mortage! Then when the bailifts come round asking for money, or your house & everything inside, and you blame it on the fuel protests, oh how cleaver.

I had an email sent to me the other day and it was a great idea.

It said to reduce the cost of fuel, boycott Shell and BP petrols stations, the Big 2.

It went on to send the email to 10 people, asking them to send it to 10 people etc, thus in a short period of time, millions get to see it and hopefully join in.

That way, if the Big 2 are boycotted, the only way to get customers back is to lower prices, thus causing a price war.Thus, we all benefit from cheaper fuel.

I remember this happening in Spain 3 or 4 years back when the government upped the tax on cigarettes.Lots of firms brought out cheap brands, and it got to the stage where the big brands had to lower their prices to compete.It caused a major price war and they could be bought for next to nothing!

Wonder if this would work with Petrol companies.

That's what I was on about earlier! Or similar. the obvious thing to do is for everyone to make an effort to find the cheapest supplier & keep an eye on them to make sure they stay the cheapest. Only buy fuel from them!

That's what I was on about earlier! Or similar. the obvious thing to do is for everyone to make an effort to find the cheapest supplier & keep an eye on them to make sure they stay the cheapest. Only buy fuel from them!

But where I live Shell is the cheapest.:confused:

i managed to get an extra 100 miles out of a tank of fuel last week by using SAFED techniques, doing a mixture this week to see how different i get to normal driving and to SAFED.

The recent fuel protests in spain last week brought almost the whole manufacturing industry to a standstill. Basically all the lorry drivers in spain went on strike for 5 days, nothing was delivered anywhere except fuel supplies which needed police escorts.

I was there, and got caught up in one which caused a huge delay on the journey and ruined a whole day. However it did get the government talking.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Spanish petrol pumps run dry

I thought i would join the rest of the country yesterday and was stood screaming in panic at the petrol pumps. Everyone just thought i had been let out for the day.

Last time i panic buy anything:confused:

I had an email sent to me the other day and it was a great idea.

It said to reduce the cost of fuel, boycott Shell and BP petrols stations, the Big 2.

It went on to send the email to 10 people, asking them to send it to 10 people etc, thus in a short period of time, millions get to see it and hopefully join in.

That way, if the Big 2 are boycotted, the only way to get customers back is to lower prices, thus causing a price war.Thus, we all benefit from cheaper fuel.

I remember this happening in Spain 3 or 4 years back when the government upped the tax on cigarettes.Lots of firms brought out cheap brands, and it got to the stage where the big brands had to lower their prices to compete.It caused a major price war and they could be bought for next to nothing!

Wonder if this would work with Petrol companies.

It will never work for fuel as we need it.

If we start using BP instead of Shell, BP will simply buy fuel off Shell to meet demand and vice versa. The supermarkets buy where ever is cheapest, so even using Tesco you could be buying shell fuel.

The only way to have any inpact is either give up your car, buy LPG, or push the gov and car manufacturers to start getting serious about alternatives such as electric and hydro before the fuel runs out and we ARE queueing to get the last dregs of fuel the world has.

The government make too much money from fossil fuels to bother spending the money on biofuel/hyrdrogen/immigrant power infrastructure :(

The recent fuel protests in spain last week brought almost the whole manufacturing industry to a standstill. Basically all the lorry drivers in spain went on strike for 5 days, nothing was delivered anywhere except fuel supplies which needed police escorts.

I was there, and got caught up in one which caused a huge delay on the journey and ruined a whole day. However it did get the government talking.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Spanish petrol pumps run dry

Also bought BMW in Oxford to a standstill too when they couldnt get parts in for the mini.

OK to answer your questions. Its on a Sunday so more people can join in. Its not about being disruptful its about being united against rising prices, the more people the bigger the voice. Another reason its on a Sunday is so that people don't complain about not being able to get to work or loose money - people are suffering enough.

This country is lame when it comes to protesting but we are a nation of great complainers.

If burning fuel for a few miles helps to get our point across, and get prices down, then we'll recoup it 10x over.

These protests need the country behind them, otherwise sure, the gufferment will just continue to ride over the top of us, hence why I'm going grrrrr

Today's the day!

No sign of any fuel protest yet (but I've only just got up and can't see further than the end of my cul-de-sac)

took swmbo to work, normally i only see 2 cars in the 20 mile round trip. i saw well over 30 today, most heading towards oxford.

WOW what an inpact the protests had.

Couldnt swap channels for the news coverage!

WOW what an inpact the protests had.

Couldnt swap channels for the news coverage!

:rofl:

I think a few Cornish truckers had about 30 seconds on the national news. Certainly no nationwide gridlock!

Second-hand prices for cars over 2.0l are supposedly going through the floor though - looks like the Great British Public have decided to that resistance is futile...

I think a few Cornish truckers had about 30 seconds on the national news. Certainly no nationwide gridlock!

Second-hand prices for cars over 2.0l are supposedly going through the floor though - looks like the Great British Public have decided to that resistance is futile...

Maybe because nobody even knew about it. It's a stupid stupid idea.

I mean FFS give a months notice, and do it when it matters. Get all the companies that need fuel up and going.

That brings the UK to a halt. A few people protesting rather than doing anything won't get anywhere. Still if you protest these days you're a terrorist are you not?

I mean FFS give a months notice, and do it when it matters. Get all the companies that need fuel up and going.

That brings the UK to a halt. A few people protesting rather than doing anything won't get anywhere. Still if you protest these days you're a terrorist are you not?

Hello to all our friends at GCHQ who've just tuned in! :wavey:

If it had succeded all it would have done is put prices up not down so I for one am very glad it didn't work