Petrol prices

People have tried this for years, doesn't work unfortunately, if you're running out of fuel, you'll stop anywhere. Case in point I paid 119p per l to fill up at a texaco garage a couple of days ago!

Unfortunately +1, on the M4 last weekend had to fill up, cost me £1.24 a ltr! What a bloody rip off!

[BanannaMan]

Boycotting may or may not hurt the big companys, depending on how many people take part.
Those who will suffer most are the small (local) business owners most of whom are only making a few pence on petrol, but depend on it's sales to bring in customers and to keep them going during slow sales periods.

Originally Posted by metalmonkey

Yes it will soon cost $20 to fill up my bike joy

*pound sign on my comp broke.

I filled up with my OH the other day, his SuperDuke came to over £20!!

Boycott sounds like a good idea in principle, though just my luck it will result in my local petrol station closing or something rather than the prices going down!

And call me a cynic, but maybe this was started by an employee of Shell or something...

I know a lot of smaller petrol stations will suffer as they are supplied by the big 2, but we have to look at the bigger picture and take collateral damage.
But as Fizz said, the oil companies are not solely to blame for this, government are taking way too much tax on fuel and after income tax must be their biggest earner.
We'd be better off targeting the tax side of things than the oil companies imo.
But i will try anything if its got a chance.

Phil

[Viney]

I love all this. Petrol is cheap, something like 16p Per litre, its the 85% tax thats that killer. Its the government that we should be hammering not the fuel companies. So for every litre at £1.16, our blessed government takes £0.99 or there abaouts. They are the ones that put a couple of pence, here, a couple of pence there. Im sure that the fuel companies do what they can, and msot of the subsidse thier income by having shops, and affiliations witht he likes of M&S.

So vote wisely.

Agreed, if you want to cut the cost, aim for trimming the biggest expenditure, that's gov tax isn't it?

Fat chance of that happening.

£25 to fill up the bike a few days ago!
The local Esso here is at £1.17 luckily there is one not 100 meters further on at the average £1.15, same as my local tescos.

If I get caught out at a rip off station I'll just top up what I need to get back to a normal station rather than fill up, even if it only saves a few liters just on principle.

[timwilky]

Local radio news is advising a repeat of the bike protest in the North West for 1st May

A go slow from Bradford to Manchester on M62, M60, M602. Seems to be organised by "Maverick" who did the one a couple of years back

Originally Posted by rick0361

That is so true and only @30% of the population will go out and vote in about a months time.

The political establishment would cr@p itself if there was a 100% turnout

Get out there and show them they need you more than you need them

I agree that everybody should vote, but what makes you think that the overall result would be different just because more people turn out?

What's all that hot air about a fuel strike on the 1st May this year? I swear one of my mates was on about it