[ChapSimon]

If you, like me go mad everytime a penny is added to petrol or diesel please sign this petition.
With prices now at 113.9p per litre where i live my blood is boiling.

If you post on other forums please add a link there too- the more te better

Petition to: Reduce Fuel duty to bring fuel prices back to an acceptable level.

[picard]

like petitions ever work we need a general strike or mass blockades at all refineries

[billy.batson]

Thanks for that, I signed up. Not a lot of good it will do, this lousy Government doesn't listen. They don't give a damn about anything except staying in power.

By the way, if you vote more than once, it won't count, unless you use a different email address that is!

[mini33]

Yeh done, i also did the one the other day for the telegraph so thats two done!!

All up for this

[NeuroBeaker]

Signed.

[Vin]

Signed

[Lorri]

One of our local garages is £115.9 today

Signed

[ASTON]

ours is £119.9 for unleaded and £132.1 for diesel. when is going to stop going up?

[Posts001]

Done!!!!!!

[Electric Sheep]

Quote: Originally Posted by ASTON (original)

ours is £119.9 for unleaded and £132.1 for diesel. when is going to stop going up?

Never? It's getting more expensive to extract what oil remains and the oil companies are looking at previously uneconomic sources, such as the tar sands in Canada for more of the black gold. Add to that those morons, err, speculators who keep forcing the price up, continued instability in oil-critical areas like the Persian Gulf and the low value of the dollar compared to the Euro and other currencies. If OPEC moved en masse to selling oil in Euros (apparently Saddam Hussein was going to do this shortly before the invasion in 2003), we'd see a little stability return.

[minicabrio]

120p/l for Tesco 99 today

£55 to fill up a MINI - just glad I got rid of the Merc

Signed

[silent9173]

I doubt the situation will improve, I think were heading into the 'peak oil' crisis...

I think it was Adam Smith who once wrote:

"Ultimately the energy intensive growth of economies of the world may turn out to be nothing more than a blip in the course of human history".

Well, being that peak oil could bring an economic crisis which would make 1929 look like nothing, I doubt the biggest worry on the minds of economists are that people wont have enough petrol to put in their mini's, rampant starvation, lawlessness, and utter chaos are at the top of the agenda of the oil crisis.

Peak oil is a huge threat to the edifice of western scientism and capitalism, I dont think they are investing in NASA simply to find 'life on mars'.. they are after resources, namely something to keep the bane of capitalism alive.

In the short term however, improving the supply chain (or actually creating one!) from areas of the world to deliver oil would radically bring down prices, the larger suppliers of oil are found in politically/economically unstable regions such as areas of Africa, Russia and the Middle East, it is difficult to set up supply in these regions. China and India are also developing, therefore demand is HUGE, so.. its supply and demand ultimately, which is the way of the world.

[NeuroBeaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by silent9173 (original)

I doubt the situation will improve, I think were heading into the 'peak oil' crisis...

I think it was Adam Smith who once wrote:

"Ultimately the energy intensive growth of economies of the world may turn out to be nothing more than a blip in the course of human history".

Well, being that peak oil could bring an economic crisis which would make 1929 look like nothing, I doubt the biggest worry on the minds of economists are that people wont have enough petrol to put in their mini's, rampant starvation, lawlessness, and utter chaos are at the top of the agenda of the oil crisis.

Peak oil is a huge threat to the edifice of western scientism and capitalism, I dont think they are investing in NASA simply to find 'life on mars'.. they are after resources, namely something to keep the bane of capitalism alive.

In the short term however, improving the supply chain (or actually creating one!) from areas of the world to deliver oil would radically bring down prices, the larger suppliers of oil are found in politically/economically unstable regions such as areas of Africa, Russia and the Middle East, it is difficult to set up supply in these regions. China and India are also developing, therefore demand is HUGE, so.. its supply and demand ultimately, which is the way of the world.

Well... that's quite a first post!

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[Carlos.]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChapSimon (original)

If you, like me go mad everytime a penny is added to petrol or diesel please sign this petition.
With prices now at 113.9p per litre where i live my blood is boiling.

If you post on other forums please add a link there too- the more te better

Petition to: Reduce Fuel duty to bring fuel prices back to an acceptable level.

113.9p / litre??? I paid 130p / litre this morning for bog standard, no frills, supermarket diesel.

At what point are the general public going to get fed up having the pish taken out of them by the Government.

Vive la revolution!

[DrNorman]

I quite agree oil supplies and refining costs have increased, but with Oil companies profits in the billions, they can afford to keep prices more static!

Signed

[alski]

its times like this i wish i was french

[paul04]

signed

[alski]

supply and demand, make me laugh,
i think if the rest of the world paid the same as us, there would not be an issue,
as always its the little guy who suffers,
how it helps the environment if we all have to go and buy new cars i have no idea
joined up thinking, be surprised if the clowns in this government can manage joined up writing
don't see too many buses on my local industrial estates
try moving all the mp's out of London to where there is no public transport
as for houses for them, save millions move them all to swindon, make the gits commute every day, and let the petrol come out of their wages,
all those eastern European lorries to fight against on the roads and we will see how they love their tiny 1ltr city cars then

[SoggyCornFlakes]

Filled up today for $40 - a tank full!! And they are creating merry hell over here as prices have increased so much!!! UK is 3rd most expensive globally (according to CNN yesterday) due to taxation - no other reason. And the Government wont reduce the revenue as it helps pay for their jolly in Iraq


Blockades - bring them on !!

[Snowie]

Quote: Originally Posted by alski (original)

its times like this i wish i was french

Are you sure

last week I filled up in France, and Italy and with today's exchange rate it equates to between £1.28 and £1.37 per litre for Super unleaded

Diesel is about the same £1.24 to £1.33 per litre

Motoring in Europe is no cheaper than in UK with the state of the £ to the €