LATEST UPDATE: It is alleged on the FaceBook page for 'Keep Fuel Below £1.00 per litre' that the police have been harassing event organisers by visiting them at their homes. Please do contact us if you believe you have been approached in this manner, or at least complain to the IPCC.
As a result, the protests due for today (22nd Jan) at Coryton have been postponed until next week (29th Jan).
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Although not a lot has been said in the general media there are fuel protests due across the country over the coming weeks.
The rising cost of crude, partly due to speculation and partly down to the government's need to raise tax whilst being green, continues to be a worry for the ordinary person in the street as they realise that it will have a decidedly adverse impact on their lives over the coming months.
Facebook, petitiononline and causes.com all have pages dedicated to the cause of keeping fuel prices down like Facebook's open group 'Protest Against Rising Fuel Prices' and PetitionOnline's 'Reduce Petrol Tax'.
Angela Hall has posted a petition to 'Keep Fuel Below £1.00 per Litre'. As the speculators are not listening and will never listen unless there's money in it for them, then one assumes therefore that this is aimed at the government and the tax system.
It lists some upcoming fuel protest events:
Sat Jan 22: 10:00 am at Coryton Oil Refinery – SS17 9LL. – Now postponed until the 22nd Jan due to alleged police harassment.
Sat Feb 5: 08:00 am to 10:30 pm (22:30 for you old soldiers) at Dundee (Camperdown) Oil Refinery – DD1 3LG, Grangemouth Oil Refinery – FK3 9XQ, North Tees Oil Refinery – TS6 8JE, Killingholme, Grimbsy – DN40 3LW, South Killingholme – DN40 3DW, Eastham Oil Refinery, South Wirral – L65 1AJ, Stanlow (Shell) South Wirral L65 4HB, Milford Haven – Milford Haven Dyfed SA73 3JD, Pembroke (Texaco) – Pembroke Dyfed SA71 5SJ, Coryton (BP) Stanford-le-Hope Essex SS17 9LL, Fawley (Esso) SouthamptonHants SO45 1TX.
Sat Feb 19: 11:30 am – 04:00 pm (16:00) – go slow in London, Clacket Lane service station TN16 2ER between J5 and J6 clockwise M25.
For more information and to gauge the level of interest visit the relevant social media pages.
Update – links to Facebook page now removed as they no longer work.
Do it then, don't just talk about it and then nothing actually happens and we all pay up,I hate to say it but we can learn a lot from the French!!!!
Fuel Price Demo. Newquay Cornwall Saturday Feb 26th…venue to be announced
A day of action to demonstrate the nation's disgust at the ever rising cost of petrol and diesel. All this will require you to do is to put the minimum amount of fuel in your vehicle (2 litres), pay for it at the kiosk then drive out of the filling station, find a safe place to turn around then come back and repeat the process as many times as you can (at least 10 if possible). This is easy to do and legal. It will only cost you the amount of fuel used to drive to and from the pumps.
Our aim is to get thousands or millions of people doing this up and down the country on one single day causing disruption whilst NOT harming the filling stations and getting government and oil companies to sit up and listen to us, the people.
….please message me if you need more details.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199593110066290
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_196223720392478&ap=1
The problem is we need to protest in a way which its the fuel companies hard. not buying fuel for a day and the like is only a temp clitch. We need to hit them reallty hard in their pockts and 'force them' to drop the prices.
They way to do it is for everyone to go about their normal day but make sure they use just 1 fuel supplier, preferably a smaller company. Even if it means driving that extra mile to find one.
Then just go about your day, week month. and only go back to the other pumps when they all drop their prices to below 1 pound, but everyone needs to stick to that, even when they start dropping it a little.
Effectively it will starve the fuel company of almost all of its revenue. they will barely be able to hold out for a few days like that.
The cost to the oil companies of oil extraction has not increased in the past months. Thus the price increases result in those Companies or the Traders in massive profit gains. Because we buy as individuals the Companies can treat us as they wish. BUT we do have one great strength. If for example all of the buyers in Cambridgeshire decided to not buy from any say Shell or BP garage until the price for fuel was below say £1.35 a litre we would without taking any pain ourselves have a very strong hand. In the event that they did not back down in say 2 weeks the ban on that particular Company could be extended to, for example Suffolk etc. With their high fixed costs this would be a very effective pressure on them.
Tony.