pinktiger
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as above any ideas?????
how can we show our disgust at fuel prices
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bhpride
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Big stick in the back window of everyone's car with a choice comment of dissatisfaction?
I'd have "IF YOU WANT ME TO GO FASTER PAY FOR THE PETROL BECAUSE I'M CAN'T AFFORD TO ANYMORE. THANK YOU LABOUR"! 
LuanneCat
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Woah it's crazy. If I was ever to come back to England I'd buy a cart. Seriously though, when I lived in a big city in Germany for a year nobody used cars. Bikes all the way
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Also think school transport needs to be sorted. School runs sound a nightmare. I live the the ruralist bit of rural France and they can still manage to minibus the kids to and from their front doors.
Also think school transport needs to be sorted. School runs sound a nightmare. I live the the ruralist bit of rural France and they can still manage to minibus the kids to and from their front doors.
the watcher
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We have minibusses here too you know
Although at £112 every half term it sure isn't cheap
EMWSanctuaries
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BRING BACK VILLAGE LIFE- REDUCE FUEL.
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WHO NEEDS A FOOL IN CHARGE OF FUEL?
if they hadn't closed every damned village shop, school, post office, pub, grocers, bakers and butchers with petty rules, high taxes and EU policies we wouldn't have to use cars anything like as much..we have an economy build only on the housing market and borrowing, like a triangle, balancing precariously on it's point...one more crisis and the whole thing will crash to the ground...Great Britain? not anymore...
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WHO NEEDS A FOOL IN CHARGE OF FUEL?
if they hadn't closed every damned village shop, school, post office, pub, grocers, bakers and butchers with petty rules, high taxes and EU policies we wouldn't have to use cars anything like as much..we have an economy build only on the housing market and borrowing, like a triangle, balancing precariously on it's point...one more crisis and the whole thing will crash to the ground...Great Britain? not anymore...
LuanneCat
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We have minibusses here too you know
Although at £112 every half term it sure isn't cheap
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*blinks* jeepers, ouch, tis free here. No wonder people use the car, especially if it's vaguely on the way to work
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We have minibusses here too you know
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*blinks* jeepers, ouch, tis free here. No wonder people use the car, especially if it's vaguely on the way to work
reynold
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that's the difference between France and the UK
In France you get taxed and have something to show for it with roads (sans potholes), hospitals, local Police and of course school buses
Over here we're taxed beyond the hilt now and get nothing to show for it (apart from MPs expenses and tranches of paperwork with new rules and regulations to obey)
In France you get taxed and have something to show for it with roads (sans potholes), hospitals, local Police and of course school buses
Over here we're taxed beyond the hilt now and get nothing to show for it (apart from MPs expenses and tranches of paperwork with new rules and regulations to obey)
magic104
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Every single person takes the same day off work with the excuse "I could not afford the fuel to travel to work" use public transport "I would but it costs too much & it would take me 1/2 a day anyway" but you would not need an excuse because there would be no one to take the call... TBH I dont think there is anything you can do. If you do what the email that keeps circulating around says boycote the likes of BP/Esso, all well & good but who do you think owns the oil refineries. I think Brown needs to explaine why we have some of the highest fuel prices of any country.
nadinek82
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CrazyDog
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In this situation, boycotts focused towards oil companies/retailers are useless. Oil prices are not set by oil companies but rather by the free market. Oil companies are producing as much as they can...who wouldn't at $125/barrel?! New projects take years to bring on production, there is no way to simply open the tap.
The reason that petrol and diesel prices are higher in the UK than elsewhere is that fuel is more heavily taxed than elsewhere. In North America, fuel prices are half what they are in the UK but the market price for crude oil is the same.
The reason that petrol and diesel prices are higher in the UK than elsewhere is that fuel is more heavily taxed than elsewhere. In North America, fuel prices are half what they are in the UK but the market price for crude oil is the same.