Fuel prices due to rise... AGAIN!

[sooty]

I do hope you had to look that up!

I'm up for an M25 blockade!!!

Indeed I did have to!
The powers of google hey!


I've never ever seen star wars!

[elvismiggell]

Indeed I did have to!
The powers of google hey!


I've never ever seen star wars!

Well I would have been pretty surprised if you knew it off by heart!!!

However, I find your lack of faith disturbing!

[sooty]

Well I would have been pretty surprised if you knew it off by heart!!!

However, I find your lack of faith disturbing!

I've never really been into Star Wars or Star Treck... Wierd considering we are all a bunch of geeks on here! lol

[vtsnick]

This is a joke, but then I suppose there must be some way to slow the use of oil? Just not at my expense :P

[MalcQV]

Wakey wakey the M25 is a car park, all the time!!

Clinterous has said it. The government needs to obtain the tax from somehwere and the motorist, the smoker and drinker are jolly good targets. I do not like it so have a toy for weekends that does gallons to the mile and am going to buy a diesel for the daily crapper.

Love your cars whilst you can, there is nowt you can do about it

PS I will always have a toy, even when I cannot afford to put it on the road!

[gazza57]

Where we're different than Europe is that, we just complain, (I include myself in this)
Very occasionally, someone kicks off and starts a fuel protest but it just fizzles out in a damp squib after a couple of weeks.
In south of france or spain, you can mount a peaceful protest and enjoy the sunshine whilst proving your point, however here it requires a thick coat or waterproofs as 80% of the time is wet, cold or both.

WE are amongst the highest petrol prices in Europe and as you quite rightly say, the price of fuel has very little to do with the actual cost of producing it but more to do with demand and the avaricious application of disproportionate amounts of fuel duty.

It's bad enough having to bear the rises and all of the inflationary effects such a rise produces, but to be told its for the good of the environment is bovine effluent 100%.

I laughed after reading that the new leaf electric car will have a range of just 100 miles and that government will encourage the installation of 1300 new charging points to enable you to more easily recharge them.
Very good except even the best battery technology takes 45 minutes to an hour to charge the batteries and how long will it be before our beloved politicians of either party introduce a power levy to electrically charged vehicles again for the good of the environment in order to cash in just as they did with diesel fuel despite the fact that most electricity is still produced from either coal, gas or nuclear means.

I would have a little more respect for our politicians had they'd been honest and said we do it for greed and for as much tax as we can possibly gather to fund the rich lifestyles of our lazy corpulent parliament.
However truth and politicians are mutually exclusive and cannot co-exist in the same reality.

Gazza57

[sooty]

Where we're different than Europe is that, we just complain, (I include myself in this)
Very occasionally, someone kicks off and starts a fuel protest but it just fizzles out in a damp squib after a couple of weeks.
In south of france or spain, you can mount a peaceful protest and enjoy the sunshine whilst proving your point, however here it requires a thick coat or waterproofs as 80% of the time is wet, cold or both.

Agree with that Gaz

[Clinterous]

Indeed Gazza.

Tapping into various sources, there is certainly an underlying anger bubbling away about the political system, with many calling for a radical redesign. In some respects a hung parliament may not be a bad thing.

[zollaf]

a hung parliament is ok, but why cant they just be shot.

[macc70]

Last time the prices went up = = Loads of parking spaces in the Lake district Less Sunday drivers blocking the lanes at 20mph