Fuel Protests.. bring it on!

Oh well, if all the muppets go and run the tanks dry at the petrol stations i wont have much work to do if i cant fill up!

:D
 
greengiant said:
I found an old till reciept for petrol at 75p / litre. 4 year or so old reciept!
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lol when i first started driving in 92 petrol was 55p per ltr and i can rember as a kid when my mum used to fill her car up ( a vw derby ) on £9 of two star , and that would last her a week of school runs and a couple of trips to the local town ( about 140 miles a week )
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Old mechanical ones did. Modern common rail diesels use electric pumps so if you keep priming/cranking the system it will come back through.
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Most trucks(Scanias especially) do not like to run out of diesel, common rail or not! (I know from experience! :o)

As for the fuel protests, this time I doubt I'll bother to get involved.

I was involved last time & the RHA gave up just as the strike was starting to bite & the government was being forced to negotiate.

As ever, in this country we don't stick together (truckers that is) and thus the protest will come to nothing.

I sincerely hope David Cameron & his mob realize that fuel prices could be a vote winner and act accordingly - Fat chance! :rolleyes:
 
Baz said:
So, if 10,000 people were blockading, they would arrest all of them?? :confused:


Better fill up tonight, still under £1/L here, or at least it was on the way to work this morning :eek:
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After the last protest the Government went ahead and trained 3,000 army drivers to drive tankers. This was actually illegal as it was never debated in the commons.

So in the event of a full scale protest you will not only have the Police pushing people about you now have a bunch of squadies.

Sad, but shows their utter determination not to lower duty.
 
lordrobs said:
Haven't noticed it in too many other garages yet though. Shell round here seems to be the only place bellow £1 a litre.
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Morrisons is still 99.9, how long for though is a different matter. No cars in there last night either. There is also an Esso garage up by vulcan road, I dont know what its prices are at the moment but it always used to be around 2p a litre cheaper than anywhere else.
 
[TW]Fox;10471552 said:
I dont know what Top Gear you watch but the one we watch had him in an Audi A8 4.0 TDI from London to Scotland :)
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On my TV he also drove back again :D
 
Wish something would be done as I just paid £1.07 per litre this morning for V-Power at the Mill Hill Roundabout in London :eek:
 
BlizzardX said:
Wish something would be done as I just paid £1.07 per litre this morning for V-Power at the Mill Hill Roundabout in London :eek:
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There is apparently a meeting of the road haulage association today and i belive the main topic of the meeting will be direct action and how if at all it will happen, i would imagine there will very well be some action between now and crimbo as its a perfect time to disrupt 99% of retail businesses didtribution and get as much focus to the issue as possibile, but dont expect fuel blockades as they are now a lot wiser than they were seven years ago!

theres more information on the road users forum ( yahoo groups )
 
I dought anything will happen, were a country of sheep who just take whatever the goverment throws at us, i sometimes wonder what it would take to get the majority of the population to take direct action about something.
 
We all had a chance for direct action a year or two back at the general election. I certainly didn't vote labour, but yet the majority of you apparently did

You have no one to blame but yourselves.
 
You know Petrol Prices are getting high when you are looking through a porno with a shoot of 2 girls and a car at a petrol station and you get more excited that the petrol was only 85.2 cents :p :o
 
Zip said:
You know Petrol Prices are getting high when you are looking through a porno with a shoot of 2 girls and a car at a petrol station and you get more excited that the petrol was only 85.2 cents :p :o
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That or you're gay.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
We all had a chance for direct action a year or two back at the general election. I certainly didn't vote labour, but yet the majority of you apparently did

You have no one to blame but yourselves.
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Most people voted Conservative, but the unique way this country elects a Primer Minister is not proportional representation... :confused::rolleyes:
 
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