Legal fuel protests to commence.........

Jamz

My wife is a Children's Intensive Care Nurse and she has beening issued some kind of pass so that she can get to the front of queues etc for petrol if there is any problems so I think they expect something major.

Happychappy

What use do these truck drivers do by driving down at crawling pace on the motorway, screwing up traffic flow and hurting Jo Public ? these are the people who get affected by it ?

If they want to protest, go and blockade MP's drive ways but stay off the motorways, they are slow enough as it is with lorries doing three mile overtakes, and the centre lane owners club outings.

redux

Almost nothing happening:

8 people at Ellesmere Port, abandoned
0 at Grangemouth
[strike]25[/strike] edit 15 at Fawley
8 at Jarrow, fewer than in 2005, and all on foot
1 at Purfleet
8 at Cardiff

maybe a rolling road block in Scotland later

and

Duty rises over the last decade add up to 25% - less than the rate of inflation. But oil prices have gone up 270% in the same period.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7145581.stm

Conor_3

redux wrote: »

Almost nothing happening:

8 people at Ellesmere Port, abandoned
0 at Grangemouth
[strike]25[/strike] edit 15 at Fawley
8 at Jarrow, fewer than in 2005, and all on foot
1 at Purfleet
8 at Cardiff

Typical. It takes us (lorry drivers) to do the job properly but as I said, as far as we're concerned you are on your own. Leave it to you lot and it's a farce. Hell, you even planned it for a weekend so people wouldn't lose money from work.

anewman

I think it needed to be advertised more, and the legality of the protests clearly defined, rather than just claiming "legal" protests, as that can mean anything.

I don't think what's happened today will help bring the numbers up all that much either, looks like we really need fuel tax to go up by something like 10p per litre to get people peed off enough to get of their butts and protest.

balsingh

anewman wrote: »

I think it needed to be advertised more, and the legality of the protests clearly defined, rather than just claiming "legal" protests, as that can mean anything.

I don't think what's happened today will help bring the numbers up all that much either, looks like we really need fuel tax to go up by something like 10p per litre to get people peed off enough to get of their butts and protest.

Shhhh!! Chancellor might be reading this. Don't give him any ideas. :rotfl:

dhandaulat33

[FONT=&quot]Okay, Sonoma County in California is proposing to require installation of a meter by a professional, requiring a permit for this work, and then fees for monitoring the usage as well as charging for the usage. If you own the property, you own the rights to it? Is this really legal for them to do? Is this constitutional? I am wondering that a City may be responsible for pollution to wells in the locality also. Any real help would be wonderful.[/FONT]

toasterman

A meter measuring what? Fuel use?

There are insurance companies here who claim to give you cheaper car insurance if you have a black box fitted to your car that lets them track exactly where your car is, when you were driving it, etc. From the reports I've read, it does not in any way work out cheaper.

The government here had some idea of using a similar system, plus gps tracking, for "road charging", whereby you'd pay more to use congested roads, than you would to use backroads. They would track you constantly and charge you accordingly. Aside from the fact that gps signal randomly just drops out (as anyone with a cheap sat nav will know), why they can't see that everyone would just use the backroads instead and then those will be congested....I'm not sure.
It's also a laughable system given the number of people who drive taxed, uninsured, etc - to think you would have millions of cars updated like that.

I'd fight that new law of yours - I'm assuming you have some equivalent of an MOT - a yearly test of some sort to check the car is roadworthy?
So long as it's safe and being driven by someone with a driving license - what business is it of anyone else where you're going?
They know how much pollution you're creating, if the eco mentalists want figures - the manufacturers have all those details already.

jmarko

davetrousers wrote: »

A US gallon is less than a UK gallon.

US gallon = 3.785 litres
UK gallon = 4.546 litres

apparently they have similar differences when they measure IQs!

anewman

jmarko wrote: »

apparently they have similar differences when they measure IQs!

And much bigger differences with waist measurements!