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Title: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: megaomega123 on 10 December 2007, 00:01:21
http://www.petrolprices.com/blog/petrol-price-protests-planned-for-this-wednesday-86.html
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: A380 Elite on 10 December 2007, 00:04:58
Snap, just reed my email from them.
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Jay w on 10 December 2007, 08:45:23
time to put a tenners worth of petrol in and then fill up with LPG
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: tunnie on 10 December 2007, 10:27:11
i filled up on Saturday, and it takes me about 2 weeks to use a tank.  :y
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 10 December 2007, 16:43:46
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time to put a tenners worth of petrol in and then fill up with LPG

I put in £15 petrol last night, but I used it all playing with my fuel maps = time for a splash more me thinks!
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: miggy on 10 December 2007, 16:47:21
Nothing will happen, we will keep paying the price, no matter what it goes to. The goverment will not allow the blockades of 2000 to happen again.

They will be prepared.
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Paulus on 10 December 2007, 18:16:36
We are a bunch of wusses when it comes to complaining in the country.
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Jay w on 10 December 2007, 20:20:55
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Nothing will happen, we will keep paying the price, no matter what it goes to. The goverment will not allow the blockades of 2000 to happen again.

They will be prepared.

in my heart i know you are right, but there is a little something that really hopes that the government gets a good hiding over this......


Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Revokev on 10 December 2007, 20:30:02
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We are a bunch of wusses when it comes to complaining in the country.
We could copy the French and do something effective like set fire to all the petrol stations  ::) ::) ::)that'll show em ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 10 December 2007, 21:23:49
My car is a bomb on wheels at the moment - 70 litres of petrol, and 68 litres of compressed gas!!
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Revokev on 10 December 2007, 21:39:30
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My car is a bomb on wheels at the moment - 70 litres of petrol, and 68 litres of compressed gas!!

your not french are you ;D
You shouldn't type bo*b online
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Jay w on 10 December 2007, 21:42:41
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My car is a bomb on wheels at the moment - 70 litres of petrol, and 68 litres of compressed gas!!

good god you have close to £100 in fuel in your car..........
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 10 December 2007, 21:55:40
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My car is a bomb on wheels at the moment - 70 litres of petrol, and 68 litres of compressed gas!!

your not french are you ;D
You shouldn't type bo*b online
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING ;D ;D ;D

yep..what was the name ?

e_c_h_e_lxoxn  ;D
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 10 December 2007, 21:59:38
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My car is a bomb on wheels at the moment - 70 litres of petrol, and 68 litres of compressed gas!!

good god you have close to £100 in fuel in your car..........

Petrol tank was over £70 to fill... and the gas tank was over £30.. so yes!
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Andy B on 11 December 2007, 00:25:42
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Petrol tank was over £70 to fill...  

You must have been running on fumes when you filled up, either that or the petrol was bl00dy expensive. I filled mine up on Friday  when the low fuel light had just come on, it was £64-something to fill it to the top.  (This was after I'd filled the Astra. £110 in fuel at Tesco within half an hour  :( )
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Martin_1962 on 11 December 2007, 11:12:46
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My car is a bomb on wheels at the moment - 70 litres of petrol, and 68 litres of compressed gas!!

good god you have close to £100 in fuel in your car..........

Petrol tank was over £70 to fill... and the gas tank was over £30.. so yes!


Why fill with petrol??

It will go off before it is used
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 11 December 2007, 15:26:54
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My car is a bomb on wheels at the moment - 70 litres of petrol, and 68 litres of compressed gas!!

good god you have close to £100 in fuel in your car..........

Petrol tank was over £70 to fill... and the gas tank was over £30.. so yes!


Why fill with petrol??

It will go off before it is used

A) If there is a fuel strike, I still need petrol for warmup. So a tankful will last for ages if needsbe.

B) I still need to tweak my fuel mapping, and I'm using a fair bit of petrol in doing so - so thought I may as well have some on board!
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 11 December 2007, 15:34:34
BBC now formally reporting the protests:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7137088.stm
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Paulus on 11 December 2007, 16:53:56
I hope it has an effect.

I have just read a report in The Engineer mag stating that there is approx another 4 Trillion gallons of oil left in the world to be mined...but not necessarily the stuff/grade/quality that is currently being mined. To put that in to perspective, since oil mining began only 1 Trillion gallons has been mined. That's a lot of sticky stuff.
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Jay w on 11 December 2007, 17:02:02
the issue seems to be that the useage is increasing rapidly and that is what seems to concern people......

as Clarkson said on TG a few weeks ago, the first person to be able to make a suitable hydrogen store will be onto a good earner....

that will have the petrol producing countries worried
Title: Re: Fuel price protests planned
Post by: Paulus on 11 December 2007, 17:12:37
I wouldn't be suprised if the oil nations buy the technology as soon as it is invented so that it can't be used.

That's what happened with Man-made diamonds.