Petrol protest

ball2uall · Post by **ball2uall** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:10 pm

Copied from a friend on another fourm

Right I hear theres a protest on the m6 about the continuous sharp increase in price for fuel.

Theres a blockade convoy of cars down the m6 on saturday afternoon.
I know of a few modified cars attending.

Due to the nature of this More info will posted closer to the date.

If you know of anywhere else to post this info the better.

If anyones interested please get into contact with me or start a list.

Post by **Marc_EE9** » Thu May 01, 2008 2:08 pm

the reason fuel prices are staying up is to cover the new road taxes

in 2010 petrol prices will be decreased to what they use to be, around 90p a litre, because when that happens, all the new road tax prices will be in effect, therefore the government will be making more money on tax, so petrol costs can come down.

just shows how sh1t our government is

Jeffro · Post by **Jeffro** » Thu May 01, 2008 2:25 pm

Yep, people can send chain emails around and organise protests but it won't change anything!

m@rk · Post by **m@rk** » Thu May 01, 2008 2:54 pm

there needs to be a civil war in this country...

andyman · Post by **andyman** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:14 pm

Marc_VT wrote:the reason fuel prices are staying up is to cover the new road taxes

in 2010 petrol prices will be decreased to what they use to be, around 90p a litre, because when that happens, all the new road tax prices will be in effect, therefore the government will be making more money on tax, so petrol costs can come down.

just shows how sh1t our government is

Do you actually believe the government will lower fuel prices when ths happens tho?

Post by **Marc_EE9** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:18 pm

yep
cos if they dont, all hell will break loose, and they no it

WELLZ · Post by **WELLZ** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:17 pm

meandmejulie wrote:there needs to be a civil war in this country...

Indeed! It will hit the fan one day!

merce · Post by **merce** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:03 pm

A few of my friends are churning out biodiesel left right and centre... hmm im going to read into bio-ethanol.

browndk04 · Post by **browndk04** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:40 pm

meandmejulie wrote:there needs to be a civil war in this country...

Go to work and look what i miss! Could do with a civil war just for the banter

Post by **widowmaker** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:25 am

The only civil war i am interested in is Guns and Roses

Optimus · Post by **Optimus** » Fri May 02, 2008 7:24 am

Read in the paper yesterday that financial analysts have said that the government could happily cut 9p a litre off the tax they rake in from petrol and it would barely make a dent in their finaces. Its due to the fact that they benefit directly from the rising costs of oil anyway...

This is on top of the cash they also make from speed cameras and parking fines, unsurprisingly the general theme of the article was motorists being used as cash cows with no improvements to road safety or quality.

Post by **Marc_EE9** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:09 am

Optimus wrote: motorists being used as cash cows with no improvements to road safety or quality

spot on!

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