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PostPosted: 17:58 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Dont forget to. Reply with quote

Fill your fuel tanks in the bike/cars before Saturday. As that's when the fuel blockade starts,

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PostPosted: 19:29 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

due to a change (since the 2000 edition) in the law (bastards) its now against the law for tham to actually blockade refinerys / distribution centres ect, so i wouldnt worry Sad
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PostPosted: 20:02 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Re: Dont forget to. Reply with quote

Its wasn't a lack of fuel that caused problems, it was people selfishly panic buying in the good old British way. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 20:19 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee told me it's around $1.90 a gallon where he is (America somewhere)

Which I think is roughly 25p a litre..... Shocked
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PostPosted: 20:26 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fuel in the UK is cheap only 28p a litre +(VAT & Duty)

But protestors are getting smart, the petrol station across the road was supposed to have a tanker come today it always comes on Wednesday , while I was there buying lunch (having dropped it on the carpet in work) , the guy at the till said his delivery had been cancelled by somebody..

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PostPosted: 20:40 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

They should try the French way of spitting the dummy. Block the ports.

Works for them?
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PostPosted: 21:53 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh shit. better run across to the supermarket and buy all the bread before anyone else does.
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PostPosted: 21:56 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Owdamer wrote:
Oh shit. better run across to the supermarket and buy all the bread before anyone else does.


you used to have to do that at Moss side Asda, it'd be totally sold out after 1pm Saturdays
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PostPosted: 21:59 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Itchy wrote:
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Oh shit. better run across to the supermarket and buy all the bread before anyone else does.


you used to have to do that at Moss side Asda, it'd be totally sold out after 1pm Saturdays


I didn't think people got up before 1pm in Moss side.
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PostPosted: 22:08 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get really annoyed with people panic buying, but as I kinda want to be able to get home for christmas i'm gonna have to go to the petrol station tomorrow and fill up.
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 12 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Filled up my Vespa today £5 Laughing that will get me to work for 2 weeks and as I've only got 5 working days left this year and plan on getting drunk over the whole Christmas holidays that will be fine.

Panic buying is good as it will cause more disruption and make the protest more effective, well unless you need to get somewhere and then its just a pain.
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PostPosted: 01:21 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rolling Eyes

For fucks sakes, really pisses me off this does. People moaning constantly about the cost of things, its winter, fuel prices go up due to demand. Rolling Eyes

Yes, the government taxes fuel quite alot, they always have done, so nothing is new there. I personally don't give a shit at the moment, 101.9p, which is the price round here really isn't alot, and we aren't the highest in europe either!

Striking doesn't help anything, all it does is causes problems for the average person, so we can't get to work, or buy food etc.

Striking in 2000 didn't work did it? All it did was make the government delay rising the tax on it thats all.

Its time we stopped relying on fossil fuels anyway, oil won't be around in abundance for too much longer anyway, and no doubt we'll be paying £3+ per litre when that happens.

Oh and I wish people would stop fucking moaning!!! There worse things out there to worry about than fucking petrol prices!

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PostPosted: 01:34 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

they charge 400% tax... i dont really think thats fair.. do you?

i support it, its gone up by 10p in a month!
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PostPosted: 01:36 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

If this effects my 350 mile journey this weekend in any way I reserve the right to make a pissy post.
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PostPosted: 01:41 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

half_lyfe wrote:
they charge 400% tax... i dont really think thats fair.. do you?

i support it, its gone up by 10p in a month!


That 10p isn't tax, its purely the surge in demand for oil, it happens every year in winter!

And the government tax as they must, personally I don't wanna pay any taxes, but I don't get a say in that matter.

And striking doesn't work! Only thing that will work is if you become an MP yaself and stand for government.
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PostPosted: 03:02 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

For the record, the lowest price for gas anywhere in America is $2.75/gal.

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PostPosted: 03:43 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

I sh!t you not rookie there is a gas station 5 mins over the border in SC with gas @ $1.93 a gallon.

Ill get pics damn you.
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PostPosted: 03:45 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Craig- wrote:
And the government tax as they must, personally I don't wanna pay any taxes, but I don't get a say in that matter.


No, they tax what they think they can get away with. If they thought nobody would argue about 95% income tax, they'd do it. Why do you think the US told Britain to bugger off a couple of hundred years ago when they started taxing everything.

You do get a say in the matter, or at least you're supposed to, that's the idea of a democracy. If they stopped giving 50% of the population a free existence they wouldn't need to collect so much tax for a start. And if the 60 or so pence a litre I pay in tax actually went into the road network, rather than paid for some dirty fat pikey layabout to sit in his free council house drinking special brew, I wouldn't be so pissed off about paying it. But for a country that collects probably the highest fuel duty of them all, along with road tax we have the most appalling roads in Europe, and public transport. And still have to pay for several tolls that were paid off years ago. And very soon (despite a million person peitition) we'll have to pay for every mile of potholed, bumpy, shitty broken, subsiding road we drive on through a brand new tax aswell. And if traffic light construction continues at the current rate, soon you'll have to wait for a green to get out of your driveway.


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PostPosted: 03:47 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee wrote:
I sh!t you not rookie there is a gas station 5 mins over the border in SC with gas @ $1.93 a gallon.

Ill get pics damn you.


You sure it's actually still operating? There's one in Llangollen, Wales with unleaded at about 68p a litre, I don't think it's been open for about 6 years though.
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PostPosted: 06:39 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee wrote:
I sh!t you not rookie there is a gas station 5 mins over the border in SC with gas @ $1.93 a gallon.

Ill get pics damn you.


Oh, you had better. And make sure that, in the photo, you've got a justice of the peace holding an atomic clock, which is hermetically sealed, and signed by the president of Clocklandia so I know it's not just some photo from two years ago, when gas prices didn't suck as bad.
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PostPosted: 09:40 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aye no taxation without representation,

Flip this to no representation without taxation,


As said if there was no dole there would be no such thing as council tax in the UK, as "social welfare" as the government puts it floats around the 140bn mark income tax erm income floats around the 120bn mark.

the 2000 protests DID work , if the protestors held on for another week/month it might have caused a vote of no confidence , and or forced the government to send in the heavies , which caught on camera is very bad publicity.
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PostPosted: 09:46 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

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No, they tax what they think they can get away with. If they thought nobody would argue about 95% income tax, they'd do it. Why do you think the US told Britain to bugger off a couple of hundred years ago when they started taxing everything.

You do get a say in the matter, or at least you're supposed to, that's the idea of a democracy. If they stopped giving 50% of the population a free existence they wouldn't need to collect so much tax for a start. And if the 60 or so pence a litre I pay in tax actually went into the road network, rather than paid for some dirty fat pikey layabout to sit in his free council house drinking special brew, I wouldn't be so pissed off about paying it. But for a country that collects probably the highest fuel duty of them all, along with road tax we have the most appalling roads in Europe, and public transport. And still have to pay for several tolls that were paid off years ago. And very soon (despite a million person peitition) we'll have to pay for every mile of potholed, bumpy, shitty broken, subsiding road we drive on through a brand new tax aswell. And if traffic light construction continues at the current rate, soon you'll have to wait for a green to get out of your driveway.


I'm calling the police you are obviously a terrorist.
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PostPosted: 10:11 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

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its winter, fuel prices go up due to demand.


So why did the prices rise during the summer ? Confused
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PostPosted: 12:58 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Duty is meant to be increasing by 2p by June next year as well.

They're taking the p1ss.
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PostPosted: 13:54 - 13 Dec 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well just filled up my tank and no panic buying yet.
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