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    Fuel Protests

    Sockpuppet - you in or out?

    Rising fuel prices are causing "frustration and anger" among hauliers, the Road Haulage Association has said.
    Prices have gone up every week for the past 12 weeks with a more than two pence rise last week, the association's director of policy, Jack Semple, said.

    He described the impact as "quite severe" and criticised duty rates in Britain which he said were "much higher" than elsewhere in Europe.

    Fuel protests had been discussed, he added, but had won little support.

    However, Mr Semple warned that if prices continued to rise and hauliers became increasingly frustrated with government policy, protests could not be ruled out.

    Oil prices 'volatile'

    "We are looking towards the government for help in terms of an equal duty playing field with Europe to achieve price stability," he said.

    Fuel was "the biggest variable cost" for hauliers, he said, and it had "gone up every week for 12 weeks".

    "But there is definite frustration and anger. There shouldn't be an increase in fuel duty at a time of clear volatility in oil prices," he added.

    There's a lot of unhappiness about the fact that prices are going up remorselessly

    Geoff Dossetter
    Freight Transport Association

    However, a spokesman for pressure group Transaction 2007, the reincarnation of organisations involved in the 2000 fuel protests, said he believed protest action would be taken.

    "I think it will happen in the next seven to ten days. I can't say much about it," he said.
    The action was likely to take the form of "rolling road" blocks, he added.

    Geoff Dossetter, director of external affairs at the Freight Transport Association, said: "I don't think there's the appetite for protests like there was before.

    "But it is clear there's a problem. There's a lot of unhappiness about the fact that prices are going up remorselessly."
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

    #2
    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    Sockpuppet - you in or out?
    Socks will be the contractor guy who drives those trucks during strike for double the rate

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      #3
      Petrol is still cheaper than milk.

      Thank god we don't run our cars on milk.

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        #4
        Are we not on the downward side of the bell curve? Get used to it, adapt or die.... the end is nigh.

        HTH.
        Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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          #5
          Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
          Petrol is still cheaper than milk.

          Thank god we don't run our cars on milk.
          Where do you buy your milk then?

          Current rate for tesco's semi skimmed is:

          Originally posted by tesco.com
          Tesco Pasteurised Semi-Skimmed Milk 2.272 Ltr £1.34 (£0.59/litre)

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            #6
            It's cheaper than beer though.

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              #7
              Originally posted by r0bly0ns View Post
              Where do you buy your milk then?

              Current rate for tesco's semi skimmed is:
              http://www.waitrosedeliver.com/wdeli...prrfnbr=283579


              Tesco's indeed.

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                #8
                £1.09 a litre!


                And I always thought that waitrose was just another Aldi.........

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