Better fill those tanks -Fuel protests are coming back!

Gun9

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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/223586/-210-a-year-rise-in-petrol-bills

About time! i have friends in the Haulage industry and these rises are crippling people.

I will be supporting them along with 50 of my friends and we will be bringing Newcastle to a standstill.

watch this space.

We need to stand up to this joke of a Gov and DO SOMETHING!

Will the rest of you protest in you're Towns and citys!?
 
This will make no difference and will just annoy people like me who need to use ~5-6 gallons of fuel per day for work.
 
Makes wanting to move to America even more temping. I ran a 3.5L V6 over there for two weeks and spent less than it would cost to run my 2L Mondeo Diesel for the same period.
 
If these fuel protests actually materialise into something worth talking about, i'll be surprised.
 
Gun9 said:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/223586/-210-a-year-rise-in-petrol-bills

About time! i have friends in the Haulage industry and these rises are crippling people.

I will be supporting them along with 50 of my friends and we will be bringing Newcastle to a standstill.

watch this space.

We need to stand up to this joke of a Gov and DO SOMETHING!

Will the rest of you protest in you're Towns and citys!?
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Instead of being a **** and disrupting people's lives who have nothing to do with the increase in fuel prices, why not head up to parliament and protest there?
 
sigma said:
This.

Surely the government will just arrest people under terrorism laws or whatever they fancy?
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They may well do but it gets the protest in the media and that is what is needed.

Something needs to be done - in France the government makes some rather minor changes to pension law and they were all in the streets by sundown.

We just let it happen and that is what the government expects.

Muffin` said:
Who is going to foot the bill if you want to reduce Duty on fuel?
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Stopping peeing around with stealth taxes, VAT increases and all the other sneak taxes and raise income tax. In fact raise income tax more and scrap NI. With one wave you reduce government spending by having two costly departments and make it completely clear how much each one of us pays in tax.

We all panic about income tax but it would be better to have one tax than lots of little ones.
 
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The media will just cause more panic buying causing pumps to run out even quicker, even if there is no protest!

Protests on foot are better than blocking in stations IMO.
 
I'm all for peaceful protests, especially over fuel prices. If public transport was half decent and there was a genuine atlternative then fair enough but at the moment its a joke.
 
Meh, week of working from home until the rest of the country gets it out of their system.

The government know it's ridiculous, they didn't listen to the last round of protests and they won't listen to this one. All they'll do is delay the rise in tax for a bit until it cools down, when was the last time duty was dropped? Honestly, can anyone tell me?
 
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