And617y Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 keep all commets on fuel in here be best! 1St off all i just seen the news, the tanker / lorry drivers are discussing about going on STRIKE! soon, troops are being put on stand by if they do strike.... could start in a week so keep your cars topped up with fuel... lets hope they do for all our sakes & we possibly may get our prices lowered who knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 cant see it happening. my believe is David Cameron is a d**k, (petrol and beer) all mans needs being affected best top up weds then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mit Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Government spending after all the cuts is still only at the level it was in 2008. They still have another 10 years worth of labour's nonsensical borrowing to cut to get it back to the level it was at before they started inventing jobs and doubling the number of laws our country has. Tax on alcohol and fuel will lose them fewer votes than getting rid of most of the benefits system, which is a sorry state of affairs but one we can't do much about. Tanker drivers going on strike will do nothing but push prices higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob- Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Thought this was about working conditions for the tanker drivers rather than trying to reduce the price of fuel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Mark Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Very negative outlook on the trucker forums as well, from what I can see there will be no blockades by trucks like last time, the threat of the government is to pull the operators licences if we do that again, status quo guys, start preparing yourself for £2 a litre, it's coming, and I'm guessing we will still be on the same wages were already on 10years ago when the £2 per litre scenario arrives. I was driving 60 miles a day to earn £64.00 a shift the other week, averaging 30/32 mpg on that trip, took a whole £55 home for my wife and daughter, before tax and insurance etc, worst of it is I am generally being forced to drive further and further to get a days wages at the moment, beginning to wonder why I bother when I could maybe claim 25k a year ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mit Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Very negative outlook on the trucker forums as well, from what I can see there will be no blockades by trucks like last time, the threat of the government is to pull the operators licences if we do that again, status quo guys, start preparing yourself for £2 a litre, it's coming, and I'm guessing we will still be on the same wages were already on 10years ago when the £2 per litre scenario arrives. I was driving 60 miles a day to earn £64.00 a shift the other week, averaging 30/32 mpg on that trip, took a whole £55 home for my wife and daughter, before tax and insurance etc, worst of it is I am generally being forced to drive further and further to get a days wages at the moment, beginning to wonder why I bother when I could maybe claim 25k a year ffs. You could drive a more economical car. Claiming that money on benefits will just make this country's problems worse, plus you'd probably rot for eternity in hell for choosing to be a burden on society Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintimperial Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 You could drive a more economical car. Claiming that money on benefits will just make this country's problems worse, plus you'd probably rot for eternity in hell for choosing to be a burden on society Thats right mit, don't mince your words lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And617y Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 read the news it says there planning to walk out on the 3rd off April. The Army & Police are on stand by.. 2000ish tanker drivers are expected to walk thats 90% off our petrol.. who knows what will happen when it comes as above i dont think it will be as bad as years back. just average price off fuel now is £1.40 an rising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry D Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Look at all the criminals we have in prisons, sheer scumbags, rapists, kiddie fiddlers, murderers, why do they get free s**t when i have to work 70 hours a week and get taxed to high heaven? Do not ever think i would swap that for my life, but i had to work a full year and save my balls off to buy an electric guitar and amp when i left school, my mate who got banged up for two years for repeated car theft and joyriding got a guitar for free when they locked him up! If you could get rid of the scumbags, any means necessary, how much money would they save? A guy in my local pub was caught putting his hand down an eleven year old girls pants a few years ago, he knew how old she was, she looked younger than eleven! He was giving her money each week to let him. I went to his sentencing, you know what he got? Two years time, got out early on good behaviour, and the sex offenders register, which doesn't really effect him since he was just a bum prick anyway, who needs people like that around? If you commit a crime, when you are sound of mind, say a drive-by due to something drug related, you molest children in your parish, you batter a 90 year old woman unconscious for her pension, then you should be deemed an enemy of the citizens of this country, and hanged for that offence, not given a guitar, access to free diplomas and three meals a day. Clean up the f**king country David Cameron before you tax hardworking families into poverty. In the last two years, nearly every single petrol station in Birmingham has adopted a pay first policy at night because the milkings are rife, and i have to say, i don't feel any sympathy for the owners, why should i? I earn a decent living, drink maybe three times a year, and my fuel outlay is outrageous. Yes i own a 2.8, for reliability, i don't want a 1.1 that's going to break down every ten seconds and chuck it's cambelt, but does that mean i am an enemy of the planet for polluting it when a guy who rapes a 5 year old boy maybe gets out in ten years? If petrol goes to £2 a litre, i'll have a spare set of wheels and window trims located away from my address and i'll start milking, because the government have declared a war on me because i work for a living. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 The strike is not intended to lower fuel prices from what I know - it's because of the working conditions of the drivers are so poor as Phantom Mark says. Tbh I completely agree with the drivers - if you get paid p*ss poor wages and are expected to work stupidly long hours with no breaks/benefits etc.. Doesn't matter what industry you're in - you aint going to like it! Simples! The only thing that p*sses me off about the whole situation - the prices of fuel will go up MORE.. With diesel already going up around 5p a litre JUST THIS MONTH - it's a frikkin joke! As mentioned in the pump pics thread - last time I filled up was around the 10th March - diesel was £1:36.9 then.. According to my daily fuel alerts it's up to £1:42.9 as of 3 friday.. I think i'll be filling up tonight.. I remember when I passed my test in Jan 2004 - diesel was 70p a litre! Petrol was around the 67p mark! It's only 8years FFS!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimp Choker Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Government spending after all the cuts is still only at the level it was in 2008. They still have another 10 years worth of labour's nonsensical borrowing to cut to get it back to the level it was at before they started inventing jobs and doubling the number of laws our country has. Tax on alcohol and fuel will lose them fewer votes than getting rid of most of the benefits system, which is a sorry state of affairs but one we can't do much about. Tanker drivers going on strike will do nothing but push prices higher. totally agree 100%. i just hope that once we have reduced our borrowing we are in a better place i personnally would accept a tax increase now to help, but would expect a tax freeze at an agreed rate for x ammount of years after we are in better shape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr T Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) i know i've mentioned it before and there will always be those that think its pointless but if you want to stand up and be counted for your views about the price of fuel you may as well sign up with the fairfuel Uk campaign and send a letter to your local MP, it may not get us anywhere but its more likely to do something than venting frustrations to friends here. Anyway just thought i'd make folk aware of it. Edited March 26, 2012 by Dr T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebgreen Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 totally agree 100%. i just hope that once we have reduced our borrowing we are in a better place i personnally would accept a tax increase now to help, but would expect a tax freeze at an agreed rate for x ammount of years after we are in better shape How long until we are in better shape. The country is in the s**t. I say if you are a criminal for a serious crime (murder, rape, repeated theft etc) screw your human rights, you forfeit those when you commit a crime. You should do slave labour, not just sit in a cell for ten years costing the law abiding citizens money. People who have kids to claim more benefits should be forced to put their kids up for adoption to people who unfortunately can't have kids. This country needs to stop being nice to bad people and treat them as they should be. Treat those as they treat you. Tanker strikes will only put costs up. It is an issue between the drivers and their employers, yet we, the general public will be badly affected by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 This country needs to stop being nice to bad people and treat them as they should be. Treat those as they treat you. Did you guys see that program about child poverty in the UK? 100% agree with the above! We've got people/kids living in homes that should be condemned, struggling to scrape enough money together to feed their kids let alone themselves but our murdering theiving scum f*cks get Sky, nice warm beds and 3 square meals a day. So what they can't leave the prison? If you get all that, and you know you're going to struggle for money on the outside - why would you WANT to leave?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durham4416 Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 This type of subject boils my piss but unfortuntley nothing will change, I worked 50hrs mon-fri last week then all day Saturday, 3 hours at home then a 12 hour rock scaling Nightshift, got in Sunday morning just in time to watch the kids whilst the wife goes to work, now its monday and it all starts again but what makes me feel better is looking on fb to see how nice people can live on benefits, the list of presents a lass on benefits had bought her child read like a toys r us stocktake, sorry to go off topic but it's all related, this country is a f**king joke but you have to be a scumbag to see the funny side, I'm 25 and dead to think what it's goIng to be like in a few years let alone for my kids, shame the wife won't emmigrate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishman68 Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) I'm all up for a fuel blockade time to get the message across to the fecking idiots in Government, the only answer these idiots have is to constantly tax the workers and give to the spongers in effect a taxation on growth and industry!! I will be filling the jimmy can and car up and book a few holidays to coincide with the strikes and fortunate can get to work via train (assuming I havent been priced off that too) Im sick to the back teeth of consecutive government mis-adminstation...... its high time to stand up and fight these thieving self-selfing pricks MPS who don't even pay their own mortgages, transport or food costs because their noses are so deep in the trough! I have been considering Emigrating for some while now did you know in New Zealand they pay $1.40nzd per litre which is almost half the price of the UK!!! Edited March 26, 2012 by Fishman68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B0B Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 .....steps slowly away from the thread. I cant believe some of the sh*t I am reading here, no wonder the country is in a mess. People wanting to kill people rather than lock them up! I would be against that even if you could guarantee no innocents would be executed in error (which you can't) The taking away of human rights, surely you understand human rights are unconditional, they are for everyone. Once you start to take them away for this group or that group of people then it all falls down. Withnailed the rest.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjn Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 And you don't need car insurance in NZ either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishman68 Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) And you don't need car insurance in NZ either! Very true....with no payrise in the last 4years and ever increasing fuel costs I am being priced off the roads. Thanks a million, as others have said above it seems that the more bent or crooked you are (like MPS & MEPS) the more you will prosper in the UK. Fuel strikes now! stop the thieving!! Just a thought but it would be great and effective in getting our point across to the idiots in Government to have a fuel blockade for the duration of the entire Olympics?? Edited March 26, 2012 by Fishman68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And617y Posted March 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Agree! Things are going up in price it's only wright we should get Paid more money .. As said government wants many off us off the roads. In end quite a few people will steel fuel as said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrimja Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 I agree with RFP, at least to a certain degree, this thread has a lot of s**t in it. Excessive speed kills, that's a fact. So anybody that speeds is seriously risking lives, they should definitely be prevented from doing so in the future. Let's hang them. f**k their human rights, the forfeited them when they decided to risk a child's life by speeding. Where does it stop? Who decides when somebody should have their HR removed? Prison should be hell, it should be scary and somewhere nobody wants to end up. Prisoners should be making goods that can be sold to pay for their stay inside. Something like 75% of all American made electrical goods are made in prisons by prisoners on like 25cent an hour. The rich should be encouraged to pay tax. The 50p rate is a great headline grabber but it encourages people to break the law or fin loopholes, reduce the percentage and watch the total tax revenues increase. It's a proven fact but is political suicide at the moment. Petrol is expensive because there is little competition. LPG/electric haven't really taken off. As soon as there is a viable alternative (hydrogen maybe?) watch the price of petrol fall. Whoops, long post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrimja Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Just a thought but it would be great and effective in getting our point across to the idiots in Government to have a fuel blockade for the duration of the entire Olympics?? Great advert to the world! It'll really encourage foreign investment and boost the tourist market. Oh wait, no it wouldn't. It's just make the expenditure on the Olympics pointless and wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Excessive speed kills, that's a fact. No it's not. Innapropriate speed kills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishman68 Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) Great advert to the world! It'll really encourage foreign investment and boost the tourist market. Oh wait, no it wouldn't. It's just make the expenditure on the Olympics pointless and wasted. According to the overseas folk I know, the world already knows the UK is getting beyond a joke, terrorists murderers move here and get free houses and incomes for life ....whilst pensioners who fought for our freedom at allowed to freeze or/and starve to death. IMO the Olympics is a huge waste of money you only need to look at Greece for the legacy it leaves......lots of DEBT. Im afraid that astronomical fuel prices are the tip of the RIP OFF Britain iceberg which you appear to be condoning. The alternative of not supporting a fuel protest is to do nothing.....which is what the sheep have been doing for decades...sit & take it like up the backside like a good little loyal dog. With the current ever rising fuels & insurance costs soon only the rich or super rich will be able to afford to run a private car...... I cant believe how many apathetic people there are out there. Edited March 26, 2012 by Fishman68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrimja Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 No it's not. Innapropriate speed kills. Excessive/inappropriate - we're getting at the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
