Why are the Fuel price protestors so quiet?

Question

I travel extensively evry wek within the UK.

For diesel I pay anywhere between 94.6/ltr in Aberdeen to £1.04/ltr on the Isle of Skye to 96.9/ltr in County Durham.
Why are we putting up with this?
Is there a reason other than greed for the secrative price rises?
Whats and where is the cheapest fuel in the UK?

Lot of questions but makes a change from Maddy!

Hi Beans

I hear what you are saying and agree with you to some extent.
However, when a tanker is carrying 60000litres, at a diff in price of .05p/ltr, this equates to an extra £3000 per tanker.
This would seem a hell of an increase for rural deliveries.

Just another tit bit of info

If anyone lives near a refinery - immingham is a perfect example, take note of the tankers that go into that refinery, you will see tankers from all of the major suppliers (Texaco,Shell,BPetc) all using the same rifinery to fill up from the same tanks.
Now who believes that a shell garage only sells shell fuels and texaco only sell texaco fuels.

Aries - it wasn't a guy that told me, I have seen it with my own eyes.
Other than specialist fuels, all of the oil companies share bunkering facilities at each others depots.
Imagine a tanker travelling to say Hull from Essex to deliver to petrol stations. At the end of the day he is empty, is he going to travel back to essex empty or is he going to go into Lyndsey refinery in humberside to fill up again.
It's all a big con!
Apart from that, why would a war today put the cost of fuel at the pumps up today?
The fuel at the pumps has already been paid for by the oil companies, it will cost them no more to sell it, war or no war.

Answer 1

I raised a similar question not so long ago, and was stunned by the fanatical apathy shown.

We are being fed crap about being green with Carbon taxes, we have allowed the North Sea to be pumped out of oil.

We see Americans using petrol (sorry gas) at as much as a sixth of our prices.

Yes I too can vouch that all of the Petrol comes from the same bunkers (just a different label).

The British are MUGS led by a bunch of self serving jack-asses. (that will earn me a rebuke I am sure).

A strike is needed for 28 days...No confidence vote in Parliament, a new batch of MPs asking for our vote.

And when they do..NO MORE APATHY.

Answer 2

If you want to know why fuel is so expensive, ask George Bush and Tony Blair. The instability in the Middle East caused by their illegal war will continue to drive up fuel prices.

Oh, and there isn't a fuel protest at the moment because some dumb tabloid hasn't called for one. Watch the bandwagon jumpers if a tabloid does!

Answer 3

I was thinking that yesterday. I saw the price of petrol gone up again and I thought we need a fuel strike again.

Petrol where I live is 98.9/ ltr at the moment.

Answer 4

You wait and see what happens when the new Chancellor
increases the fuel tax that Gordon Brown wanted to do but,
was scared of the backlash from the public,
then you will see the protests start again.

Answer 5

the price of unleaded at asda in coventry is 94.9p litre.
if you own an asda credit card you can get a 2p per litre discount, thus making it 92.9p, the more fuel you buy the better the saving

Answer 6

is becos things are so hard this days maybe the souce of bring in the fuel is so diff u know most of this things are nomaly from africa now evry where is tight

Answer 7

Hey the guy that told you about all the companies using the same distribution point and tanks - was he correct?.....Talk about flipping cheek and they all charge different prices for the same stuff!!!!!

Answer 8

in our country liberals cant blame it on bush anymore as they are in charge so its kinda obvious...i would assume in england and surrounding the same is true with blair. the thing about liberals is truth never seems to enter into it much.

Answer 9

You pay more for stuff out in the sticks than in cities because its harder to transport it there.