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Old May 24th, 2008, 10:10 AM
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Fuel Price petition: Official No. 10 please sign

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.


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Old May 24th, 2008, 11:50 AM
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like petitions ever work we need a general strike or mass blockades at all refineries

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Old May 24th, 2008, 12:57 PM
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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!
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Yeh done, i also did the one the other day for the telegraph so thats two done!!

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

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Old May 24th, 2008, 09:04 PM
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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Old May 28th, 2008, 11:48 AM
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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!

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