Petrol Strike towards the weekend?
 

Hi All,

Don't know how true this is but after having a chat with a HGV Driver at Work he mentioned that there some kind of Strike kicking off towards the weekend in conjuction with the fuel prices. Just advised me to fill up before everyone starts going wild.

Dont panic as yet... but i've just filled my scooby up :)

Mods can you alter the Heading:

'Petrol Strike towards the weekend'

Sorry guys result of a bottle of wine,

Drink-drive on PC whatever next:Suspiciou;)

Her Majestey's Government has threatend to use the Army against protesters, they have also threatened to use the terror laws, confiscate cars, trucks and driving licences. This is just for protesting.

No freedom of speech in this Country then? See, our freedom is being slowly eroded, do we see it, not one bit.

hasnt this been planned for weeks :wonder:

Yes I heard there were going to be problems this weekend from 2 reliable sources, including an Esso tanker driver.....

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Another spectacular waste of time at the wrong time of year :(

I really do think the petrol priced have gone too far now, I saw diesel in one rural village for 1.16.9 a litre. The problem seems after ten years of new labour everyone seems to have the fight kicked out of them:( I'm on holiday to the 3rd of jan so bring it on:D
I have a mini quad which goes forever so i'm alright thae fat cops can't catch me with no petrol to run those giant 4x4's

Who are the protesting too? Government aint going to change any taxation levels and its not them putting the price of oil up

Your probably right but most of the cost is tax, plus as the petrol goes up the VAT portion means millions extra for Gordon. Also the last round of protests actually stopped the regular tax increases for quite a while. So it might help.

perhaps we need to be a bit more like the frogs and the wops and demonstrate a bit more ............ would this government allow that? Be a shock for them.

I hate to say it but we need the Fench over here they know how to do a good protest/riot:D

happening now up here

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Fuel protest convoy set to roll

but oil prices have dropped 10% over the past two weeks have they not?

End of november saw a barrel just short of $100 it dropped back to $90 last week yet prices keep increasing on the forecourt.

They are making a mint out of the extra VAT on the increased prices. It is only fair that they return that windfall tax to us.

But when have they ever been anything other than mean grasping scrooges?

Did you hear that the extra pension for those over 80 has been increased by one penny? Can you believe that?

Les :(

oh god, theyre making 17.5% on the extra 5p petrol has risen by, hardly much to shout about. Shouldnt have let it get as far as it has if we wanted to complain about it, we've already proven we are willing to pay for the petrol at that price so what good is a protest going to do, they'll sit there laughing because they know within a few days time everyone will need more petrol.

Indeed... :smug:

That amounts to over £600,000 of extra tax per day for the Government!

Well the French had to be good at *something*

Although I agree - protesting is their strong point (unless they're invaded)

So they are going to waste the fuel they already have in their trucks with a futile rolling road block that will achieve the square root of F**K ALL :cuckoo:

so they asked permission first and were told ok you can have your play but no more than 30 trucks can play otherwise there may be a bit of congestion????

Isn't the whole idea of this to cause as much chaos as possible????

Wrong time of year, you won't get much support for a protest when it's freezing outside and there's only a week to go until Christmas.

Not the most thought out of campaigns!

I think that equates to a lot of dosh when you consider the amount of fuel bought everyday!

Alot of dosh in total for our government or wealth of the country... pennies at the very most to me and you :rolleyes:

What gets me is that considering what they have to do to get the Oil out of the ground and into our cars it's quite unbelieveable that it's still cheaper than a glass of a soft drink in pub!

They do soft drinks in pubs? Feks sake!!!!

Strewth which pub? one in the 1990's:D a pint of diet coke is 2.30 round here , unlees you want to brave the drunken chavfest that is weatherspoons which is around 1.80 a pint

I can't see it'll amount to much - a single day of demonstrations limited to 30 trucks.

Hardly going to cause much long term havoc

I guess the public panic buying today & tomorrow will do more damage.

Looks like Scoobynet is going on strike too on Saturday, are the servers part of the fuel protest too :lol1:

Gotta love the irony of this post :D

We have just recieved an email from one of our on site installers telling us that everyone is panic buying and queues at the stations so we best all go fill up :lol1:

Just been to portsmouth to pick my eldest up...

running on dregs, and the low diesel light was on... the main shell station near the ferry port has no diesel, and the other main shell garage near the M27 had no diesel either :eek:

managed to get some but big queues,

Now ive filled up, good on em, go for it, lets give them a bit of support.


mart