BillyCabrio

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Just got this from *Anna* via Racey...........

Thru work i have this to add........

Oh dear, here we go again......................

BillyCabrio

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More here:~

http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/...=fuel+protests

TheBishMan

I'm off to the petrol station!!!

Deano

AT LAST .......... FOOKIN OVER 90p FOR DIESEL

Westy

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didnt they do this before??

and nothing changed

Rhys

Have you seen more tax on fuel?

jasonp

bout time fookin diesel is a joke

Martyn

If people used their common sense and didnt buy petrol unless they needed it then there would be no panic buying and shortage.

Vicious circle

Rhys

I just better keep the tank toped up in the Derv cause Exams are coming up soon

Westy

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yeah, the prices have increased

dont get me wrong, Im all for it and that, but seems like your fighting a lost cause because no mateter what, we will always need petrol

BillyCabrio

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People power mate, we should reunite and regroup.

Let the unheard be heard, i've taken all i can stand and i cant stands nee more

Patto

to be honest i work in a service station and during the last strike we never ran out of juice once yeah we had people queing for hundreds of litres even thousands by people ( no shit ) we even caught a man filling a bath.. wot im trying to say is we never ran out nor did a lot of places but the ones that did it was due to people panic buying thats the only reason! people heard strike and just went out and panic bought..

CheeRS
Craig
NYRSOC

Rhys

Yeah Westy but thats due to oil prices which no one in the country has control over

RichardPON

We have loads of petrol stations round here, as we're in spitting distance of the M1, M25, and A1.

Wasn't so concerned about the petrol, but the queues, and the carnage basically brought the area to a standstill for two days.

Anyway, just off out to stock up

SimonT

I dont understand why people panic even if there is a shortage.

Need to take the kids to school? Use a bus!
Need to get some shopping? Use a bus!
Need to get to work? Use a bus!

Ok if you live in a rural area with only one bus a week into town take the kids off school and stay at home!

Westy

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Rhys

true, but it still went up.. any excuse

I think prices are absolutely pathetic especially after 8 months of paying for less than 30-40p a litre in OZ.. thailand was baout 3 p a litre

this country is a fucking joke

BillyCabrio

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Yeah thats all good, as long as the buses aint in the fuel que in front of ya

Rhys

Not the most practical, for some people mate. I gotta commute to uni and fookin public transport is a joke!


Westy totally fookin agree the fuel price is a joke would be so bad if the Gov. Said they would now never increase the fuel tax as in time it would come in line with inflation etc. As i can never see them recducing it as they have come to rely on that money to much!

RichardPON

Bus? You are joking I hope?

Do you realise if I wanted to get to where I used to work by bus, it takes an hour and a half, but by car, 15 mins.

It's the only route the bus goes..........

RSCAT

im not going out to stock up, if i run out ill stay in on the playstation

Max

I would have to get 2 buses to get to work and that would take nearly 3 hours I only like 20 miles from work but sod that

Fudgey

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good excuse not to go to work..

all we need is a train strike too

cooler king

aparently the fuel prices are higher now than they were when we had the "crisis" a couple of years ago!!!!

Dan B

Shipping charges from Thailand? Reckon they do a group-buy special-offer?

Escy

i think the panic buying is good. we should all spread this news around work and advise everyone to go fill up. tell them the petrol station buy your house has run out already.

panic buying will grind everything to a stop and get more coverage for the protesters.

i'm 100% for these protests, something needs to be done about it.

JohnnyB

he protest outside the Shell oil refinery in Stanlow, Cheshire, later appeared to be over.
Around 15 tractors circled a roundabout close to the refinery for three hours yesterday morning, then parked on the roundabout in a peaceful protest.
Organisers from pressure group Farmers For Action tried without success to persuade Shell management and tanker drivers to support their campaign for lower fuel prices.
No blockade was put in place and there was no disruption to fuel supplies.
A number of vehicles remained on the roundabout overnight but they were driven away by 10am today.
David Handley, who organised the protest, said: “It was a successful day for us.
“We made our points peacefully and we sparked a number of protests elsewhere in the country.
“We have managed to put ourselves on the politicians’ agendas, and now we will just have to wait and see what they come up with.”

Physio

It's about time someone done summat about it!
If i could help out in anyway i would.
It dosnt bother me if i cant use the car for a week or so - got a cool mountain bike

Graceland

that can be arranged - i could do with a payrise

SimonT

What people seem to forget is what does Britian actually have to offer economically? Answer - FUCK ALL.

Britain is not the major economic player it used to be. We export hardly anything these days. So theres not much money coming into the country. To keep the standard of living we are all used to tax's on everything has to go up. I could go into detail but I really cant be arsed!

All i'm trying to say is tax's in this country need to go up - because without them we technically have nothing.

I'm not saying I agree for the high prices - far from it - but I do understand why.

Oranoco

I'm all for it' Phoney Tont needs a swift kick up his arse

I'll walk or cycle if need be but I want cheaper fuel

Rhys

@ ubove, think you need to go itno more detail as i dont understand

4 largest economy, one or the only one in the EU to keep growing etc. Ok mayeb not in the best way but still.

Anyway cant be arsed to type a long answer as im lasy

RichardPON

What a load of rubbish.

How about expenditure is actually audited? Certain amounts are allocated to a particular sector, but it's not about where the money is spent, but how it is spent. Millions of pounds wasted in government think tanks and quangos.............

We have one of the highest taxes on the overall cost of living in Europe, and the some of the worst services in return.

We don't need to be taxed more - we need the revenue spent properly.

Rhys

Ahmen to that

Ginge !

lets not be too drastic just yet mate

as for needing more taxs, why not base em all on income !!!!!!, think that if there was a max amount ya could earn then that would help alot !!!!

taxing single mums the same as the rich aint gonna help

people who need a car for work and then tax em through the nose on fuel, then the road tax, then insurance


sorry but think of the 18 yearold chavs, there the least paid people, they pay the highest in insurance adn so the higher rate of insurance tax, then the road tax and then the fuel, hows that fair as a guy whos 35 payes 200 quid on insurance and tax based on it,

we dont need more taxes, just need less people to sponge meaning tha ta fair rate of pay for all ( min 16k pey year for all) and a max amount for people to earn and after that they loose it to tax, golden hand shakes should be illegal too

sorry but the rich are just gonna get richer and the not so well looked after get spat upon for no reason!!!!!

just like rent on property, its too fooking high, make a max amount to charge people

theres loads of issues that need adressing

lets start of fuel first though yeah

Rhys

Ginge taxing Rich people is crap to, like what the Lib Dems reckon as every skilled worker etc would fook of and live overseas leaving the UK with a massive skilled shortage imo.

RSKim

I already filled up my nearest petrol station is 6 miles away so I can't risk no fuel in my car

Oranoco

Simple way of lowering tax on fuel. Stop wasting cash on shit. Stop the sponging workshy layabouts. GEt our countries priorities straight. We can't spend money on our own problems yet send millions to other countries

Harsh as sounds to a large degree charity should begin at home. I object to the money sent overseas when we hav eold folks here who can't afford to put 2 bars on the heater to keep warm

Ginge !

yeah but rhys theres too much money they got !!!!, thats wrong, same with house prices, we all love the fact we got our own property, its worth what ever and were soooo proud and pay our money for it and work to live and pay the morgage we are out of our depth paying for !!!!

but whats it really worth as we gotta live somewhere anyway so it may be worth 350k but we aint gonna buy another for 100k are we, so its not a true indication, the only people who earn out of it are the government/banks and the estate agents

we dont get to see any of it

but thats a true point about skilled work though, we need another way at looking at it, maybe a total max money we can earn in the world

im sorry but i hate the whole attiude of some people saying they dont care about how much property cost anymore as they got the house before the boom and there all cosey, thats just a pull the ladder up jack, sod the rest attitude

Rhys

Agreed with sod the rest attitude as i havent got a house and honestly dont how i can see i can afford a half decent one. Hence why i want to live abroad when i finish my degree.


It hard way to work out tax lots of pros and cons. Hate it when people just say do this when they dont look at the bad effects. Hard choices! lol



Though its good to see debates happening in here

Ginge !

oranoco i can understand the works shy layabouts point though !!!!, the wages they can expect from the companys when they get a job that they can suport the familys anyway or end up the same situation but they dont get to see there kids

i recently quit my job due to the shite wages and thought, fook it and see what happens, im gonna look for a job but im at a point in my life where i cant afford to have a job that pays shite money and so im not gonna bother, i still gotta sign on which ive never done before and tbh im holding it off as at the moment i dont actually ahev to but thats just cause im not spending money at the moment

if there was a true minimum wage not that bollox one then peeps might be more inclinded to work harder or look for work !!!

also i got told i could have got benifits to suport my income but not the morgage

now call me stupid but whats the fooking point having a job and still needing benifits to get by in life , wheres that independant

think the whole wage system and the way people are payed is bollox, some people get tooo much money, no if not buts, theres too much for some and not enough for the others

what about taxing people fair, if ya earn so much ya dont pay any tax on certain items and others do

as the poor are not getting a fair deal here !!!!

im not refering to myself as ya know i can get by either way, but there are others worse of than me and i found that my job put me under alot of stress at home, imagine how others less fortunate than me get by