cor5a tommy
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Think back to a few years ago, petrol prices we're a small 72.9 a litre, and it went up to 78.9 and everyone went nuts. Blockades and boycotts kept the prices low, until everyone forgets about it and they fire the prices through the roof.
Is it not time to do what as consumers (being ripped off in this coutry) we are entitled to do, and not pay for it at those prices. You go to a boot sale or a market and you can barter on a price, so why is it at shops and forecourts u HAVE to pay the price advertised.
We need to fight back and get fuel prices lowered. If one single fuel depot is blockaded, the cost to the fuel company is millions within hours. There tankers cannot leave, their supplies build up, ships carrying oil have to dock for hours, then eventually it costs the company millions, if not billions. To prevent this, its cheaper for them to cut the prices of fuel and save the cost of millions of oil tankers being stuck in a depot or on the coastline.
As a country we should be saying no to 103.9 a litre (which if im right is more than diesel these days) and be telling them how much we are willing to pay.
This isnt something only one person can accomplish and we need messages like this to go to all the lorry drivers and commuters out there that pay so much in fuel to the government. With prices set to rise further because BT broke an AMERICAN fuel line, and the middle east is always at war.
Are you all that happy to pay more for fuel when its all down the americans and the people in the middle east, why should we pay £60a week plus to run a 1.4 16v when they can all run 6.5l V8s for just £30 a week????
We need to organise some action, and if your interested or know of any ways to help then please respond.
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
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Corsa National Meet outside one of the oil depots 
Not really going to make any difference. Fuel prices will keep rising.
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mark_d
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no point argueing, if you dont like paying for it/cant afford it, i suggest you walk or ride a bike or something like that 
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cor5a tommy
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Not if we dont let them, its only because as a nation we're happy to pay for everything...council tax for example, yeah 150 a month to have your wheelie bin emptied, a speed bump outside your house and some chav breaking into your car in a council maintained car park. Its one of those things, because fuel is a necessity they think they can charge all they want, and expect us to take it. We're all too soft to say anything.
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willay
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Without being anegitive nelly, things like happen every year and nothing happens becaue there isnt enough people to take time out from their jobs+shite to block a tanker.
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cor5a tommy
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Why is no-one willing to get prices down...im not saying we should go to the offices of the BP directors and force them at gunpoint, but somewhere we need to pull together and tell them to get fcuk'd
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cor5a tommy
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its easier said than done i admit, but some of you lot must have ideas that will help even if you dont go to a blockade or something like that...know any lorry drivers, they are always willing to help for a tenner lol
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Ojc
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The Goverment put a ridiculous amount of tax on our fuel prices, remove some of that tax and fuel prices aren't that bad.
For every £1 we spend on petrol, 65p of that goes on fuel duty, so for once blame our goverment not America or the Middle East. Its scandalous.
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mark_d
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agreed with ollie. was going to say its the government so no point going and protesting against BP
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RKS
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a gloucestershire person! dont see many of them on here! where abouts you from mate and whats your car?
But yeh on the petrol note, I agree but problem is you need too many people to stop it plus, we would all need to go out of pocket for however long it takes to get something done,
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Tommy
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U all signed up for a Pipeline card ???
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JadeM
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Want middle east prices...move to the middle east!!! NOTHING will change here, its an expensive country to live in & that will always be the case!!!!
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Tommy
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Hows about road tax going up for bigger engines, think its over 1598cc or something like that.
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JadeM
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quote:
Originally posted by LoudandLow
Hows about road tax going up for bigger engines, think its over 1598cc or something like that.
Yip & 4x4's are going to be about £1k / year!! unlucky
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Tommy
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yeah but so are 1.6 engines, how about the fact that newer engines over 1.6 are better for the enviroment than old 1.4s
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Fro
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quote:
Originally posted by LoudandLow
U all signed up for a Pipeline card ???
Yeah I've signed up for it 
Been waiting ages though!
[Edited on 09-08-2006 by fro-dizzle]
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ssj_kakarot
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tbh i strating to think pipeline was just a ploy so he could get money from advertisments ect.
every update he says "well ive always said i would never advertise....but i seen this advertisment that i think you woul like so i stuck it on the website" and obviously got paid for it.
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
The Goverment put a ridiculous amount of tax on our fuel prices, remove some of that tax and fuel prices aren't that bad.
For every £1 we spend on petrol, 65p of that goes on fuel duty, so for once blame our goverment not America or the Middle East. Its scandalous.
85p mate
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sxi boy
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wots a pipeline card?
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Marc
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quote:
Originally posted by LoudandLow
U all signed up for a Pipeline card ???
Yeah, get random e mails every now and again telling me nothings happened.
and where the hells my card?  Talk about trade discriptions act 
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jazzer2k3
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i jus bought tax for my car a couple weeks back ... £175 for the year (Corsa GSi) wasn't best pleased . . .
Unlucky 2L Turbo ppl
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langey
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what i dont get, is everyone knows the goverment and there policys are crap, and are all a shower of shite. but every election they get voted to stay in
and the idea about bartering for petrol? well just fuil the car to the brim, then go in and say "insided of paying you none english peaking person £40, i'll give you 2 fingers in stead", then walk out. bartering done.
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corsa_godfather
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diesels usually 1p dearer than petrol!
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langey
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Registered: 7th Sep 03
Location: Wigan
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and 103.9 for petrol, you must be living in the services or daaaan saaaff
90.9 round here, and thats for optimax
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Marc
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Optimax is also 103.9 here.
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