NismoDave Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 About time too in my book, we love getting shafted in this country and not saying or doing anything about it. This is long overdue.....lets hope we do it properly this time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7089933.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 In a way its naive to protest. Ok, there is a lot of taxes on fuel, but the problem is way bigger. "Developing" countries (read, places where you can still exploit people without being hassled with social legislation... ) like India and China are demanding more and more petrol/steel/..., and this wasnt the case 5-10 years ago. So more demand for the same product .... what are we going to do about that? There is only 1 solution, that is to find solutions to decrease our dependence on petrol. If you think about it it is just hallucinating, our entire society is built around it .... So what will we do when there is none left? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu2 Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 well with oil reaching 100$ a barrel this week, don't look for any reductions! on the other hand it's great for my bonus as I work in oil and gas sector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hope4sun Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 If you look at the way fuel is going up and the amount of it around is fast going down, the economic papers, etc floating around are not far wrong when they say start getting ready to live in a $300 a barrel world I'm all for doing my green bit (5k in a year in the Z if i'm lucky), but pricing people of the roads is not the answer, but something has to be done about cars and what they run on and fast i guess. The funny thing is that planes have to run on petrol (well aviation fuel, but you know what i mean) and though cars can run on other fuels, planes as yet cannot, the world is going to get bigger pretty quick once you can't just hop on a plane anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 isnt that the point of releasing these hybrid cars or did I miss something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Refineries petrol prices are broadly governed by the price of crude that they buy. The goverment on the other hand are in a win win situation. With the current price of crude the government have made more revenue from the North Sea oil. They could ( ) slash 9p off a litre with this money. Like thats going to happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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