Fuel Has Gone Up

[marky]

83.9p a litre at SHELL im no millionaire MR BLAIR

[slydog]

mmmmmmmm

time to retaliate m8 acording to the news today theres gonna be blockades by the weekend so fill her up now

[Cockney Surfer]

Time 4 Vegoil ?

[TonyN]

Looks like I got the Nova replacment just in time! 50mpg rools!

This country is starting to really suck, oil prices going up is out of our control, but the tax on it isn't, as well as all the other fecking taxes!!!

[Morr]

Time 4 Vegoil ?

Well at €0.90 to €0.96 for dinodiesel here in Ireland (I know thats not as bad as the UK) I'm happy at 75% vegoil for €0.62 from Lidl or Tesco's The percentage savings are even greater for all those in the UK.

[Gizmo]

83.9p a litre at SHELL im no millionaire MR BLAIR

read this morning some places in Blackpool charge over £1....

talk about thieves...beside the government on their taxes on petrol before VAT is added

[europa88]

This is the content of an e-mail sent to me recently! Apologies for the size of the message, but It's an interesting thought!

We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. Want petrol
> > prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.
> >
> > Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea and this makes MUCH MORE
> > SENSE than the "don't buy petrol on a certain day" April or May! The
> > oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't
> > continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of
> > an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them, BUT, whoever
> > thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.
> > Please read on and join in!
> >
> > Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us
> > to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP at 77p - 80p, we need to
> > take aggressive action to teach them that we, the BUYERS, control the
> > marketplace not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each
> > day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to
> > see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket
> > by not purchasing their petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting
> > ourselves.
> >
> > Here's the idea:
> >
> > For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two
> > biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP. If they are
> > not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices.
> > If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow
> > suit. BP and Esso will also apply pressure to the government to reduce
> > the tax on petrol. Because the government have a vested interest in
> > seeing prices rise as the tax rises in line with petrol.
> >
> > But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Esso
> > and BP petrol buyers.
> >
> > It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this
> > point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach
> > millions of people!!
> >
> > I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to
> > at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least
> > ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message
> > reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over
> > THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass
> > this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been
> > contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it... .. THREE
> > HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10
> > people. That's all(and not buy at ESSO/BP). How long would all that
> > take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one
> > day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted
> > within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that
> > much potential did you! Acting together we can make a difference. If
> > this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT
> > UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICE S TO THE 69p A LITRE RANGE
> >
> > Action:
> > It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
> > petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p) Jet etc. i.e.
> > boycott BP and Esso.
>

[RobD]

83.9p a litre at SHELL im no millionaire MR BLAIR

Just as well the Surf is an economical little runabout.......

[marky]

This is the content of an e-mail sent to me recently! Apologies for the size of the message, but It's an interesting thought!

We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. Want petrol
> > prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.
> >
> > Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea and this makes MUCH MORE
> > SENSE than the "don't buy petrol on a certain day" April or May! The
> > oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't
> > continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of
> > an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them, BUT, whoever
> > thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.
> > Please read on and join in!
> >
> > Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us
> > to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP at 77p - 80p, we need to
> > take aggressive action to teach them that we, the BUYERS, control the
> > marketplace not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each
> > day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to
> > see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket
> > by not purchasing their petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting
> > ourselves.
> >
> > Here's the idea:
> >
> > For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two
> > biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP. If they are
> > not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices.
> > If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow
> > suit. BP and Esso will also apply pressure to the government to reduce
> > the tax on petrol. Because the government have a vested interest in
> > seeing prices rise as the tax rises in line with petrol.
> >
> > But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Esso
> > and BP petrol buyers.
> >
> > It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this
> > point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach
> > millions of people!!
> >
> > I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to
> > at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least
> > ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message
> > reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over
> > THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass
> > this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been
> > contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it... .. THREE
> > HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10
> > people. That's all(and not buy at ESSO/BP). How long would all that
> > take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one
> > day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted
> > within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that
> > much potential did you! Acting together we can make a difference. If
> > this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT
> > UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICE S TO THE 69p A LITRE RANGE
> >
> > Action:
> > It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
> > petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p) Jet etc. i.e.
> > boycott BP and Esso.
>

ITS THE TAX NOT THE OIL COMPANY 74% TAX IS WHAT THE FIGHT IS ALL ABOUT SO THIS EMAIL IS COMPLETE POO

[stara]

searl effect generators where 'invented' in the '50s, FREE power, enough to power a car or an entire house from a self contained unit the size of a vacuum cleaner. when john searl began experimenting with the design, he was arrested and all his notes and equipment destroyed by the U.S. govt.

http://www.searleffect.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/EclipseLab/segpage.htm

http://www.americanantigravity.com/searleffect.html

j searl allegedly dreamt of the SEG many times as a child, a free power-source which creates a state of superconductivity and antigravity, seems too good to be true?

[europa88]

ITS THE TAX NOT THE OIL COMPANY 74% TAX IS WHAT THE FIGHT IS ALL ABOUT SO THIS EMAIL IS COMPLETE POO

It wouldn't work anyway Marky! Unfortunately It appears that a large amount people in the uk are too apathetic about fuel costs!
A mate of mine in the USA couldn't believe what we put up with over here!
He reckons they would bring the country to standstill if that happened over there. Time will tell!

[TonyN]

searl effect generators where 'invented' in the '50s, FREE power, enough to power a car or an entire house from a self contained unit the size of a vacuum cleaner. when john searl began experimenting with the design, he was arrested and all his notes and equipment destroyed by the U.S. govt.

http://www.searleffect.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/EclipseLab/segpage.htm

http://www.americanantigravity.com/searleffect.html

j searl allegedly dreamt of the SEG many times as a child, a free power-source which creates a state of superconductivity and antigravity, seems too good to be true?

Just read some of those links, its really interesting.

[marky]

latest

LONDON (Reuters) - The government has given no sign it will give in to demands to postpone a hike in fuel duty, despite the threat of protests by lorry drivers and farmers.

Transport Secretary Alistair Darling on Thursday blamed price rises at the petrol pumps on record international oil prices and cautioned against knee-jerk reactions.

"What you don’t do, when you’re setting tax policy, is allow yourself to be battered around from day to day," he told BBC radio.

"What the whole country wants is economic stability and that means you have to take decisions for the long term."

Road hauliers and farmers have set the Prime Minister a deadline of Friday evening to postpone plans to raise fuel duty by 1.92 pence from September 1 or face protests.

Government taxes already account for over 70 percent of the price of retail fuel in Britain.

Oil prices have been above $40 for most of the past three weeks, fuelled by worries about Middle East supply security.

Darling said Chancellor Gordon Brown had been trying to persuade oil-producing countries to increase production in order to take the pressure off fuel prices.

He noted that the planned duty rise to take account of inflation had already been postponed by six months.

Darling accused opposition Conservative Party leader Michael Howard of seeking short-term political gain in expressing sympathy with those planning protests.

In September 2000, Britain endured days of crippling blockades around fuel depots and refineries which ran the country’s fuel supplies virtually dry.

[marky]

Chancellor Gordon Brown has hailed the decision by OPEC to raise oil production but said he would press for an even greater increase.

The 11-member Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said on Thursday it would raise its crude output by two million barrels a day (bpd) from July 1 and add a further 500,000 bpd from August 1, bringing the cartel’s output ceiling to 26 million bpd.

Brown has been pressing OPEC leaders for the past two days to take steps to lower the prices of oil which have reached record highs in recent days and are threatening to derail global economic recovery.

Brown said OPEC’s decision was "welcome and essential for the much needed stability in the oil market that we have been seeking."

He said Britain would continue to be in contact with the oil cartel to get it to increase production.

"We will press OPEC both on meeting the production target and on the case for raising the target higher," Brown said in a statement.

Brown said he understood the concerns of motorists about the rise in petrol prices, but rejected a call for an immediate repeal of fuel tax hikes planned for September.

"After fast changing events -- which do nothing for stability -- I will reveal progress in August," he said.

"I’ve already postponed the inflation-only increase until September 1. And for September 1, I’ve announced our plan to get a special incentive with the introduction and use of sulphur-free fuel to reduce the environmental effect of the used fuel," he said.

Road hauliers and farmers have set Prime Minister Tony Blair a deadline of Friday evening to postpone plans to raise fuel duty by 1.92 pence from September 1 or face protests.

Government taxes already account for over 70 percent of the price of retail fuel in Britain.

Speaking later in London, Blair said any decision on fuel duty would be taken "not on the short term basis but on the basis of the long term interests of the country, the stability of its finances as well as obviously paying regard to the problems people have as motorists and as businesses."

"We don’t need to make a decision right now but we will take it later," he told a news conference after meeting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Referring to the OPEC announcement, Blair added: "We have simply got to see how that settles down."