fuel strikes

[cockneyexile]

as a driver working for a small family run haulage company i applaud the farmers and hauliers who have started blockading the refineries protesting against the price of fuel .do most ab,rs think this course of action is justified or just that the farmers and hauliers are trouble makers? i welcome your comments

[Zen]

No doubt some of these hauliers are the people who were coining it. breaking the picket lines during the steel strike and the miners strikes,always first through the picket lines were the road hauliers,a fast buckto be made.Get no sympathy from me.

[cheyenne]

I think the goverment should bring in the Army if this gets out of control!!These people have no right stopping me buying Petrol.We are all in the same boat.Leave it to the Voters of this country!!As for the Farmers are we talking counrtyside alliance!! If I see any body blocking my local petrol station I will have no choice but to take Drastic Action!!

[FP]

Farmers receive tax subsidies on their fuel  (red diesel)and pay no road tax for farm machinery that causes more damage to the country roads than anything else.   I really object to their actions.        I sympathise with the hauliers.

[mongos bird]

I understand whey they do it but the only people they inconvenience are the rest of the public who still have lives and jobs.  The Government will certainly take a stand if it happens again.  Troops have been trained to operate and drive tankers, that's a certainty.  I don't agree with the horrendous amount of tax levvied on a gallon of fuel (who does!) but I object to having my life interupted by these people.  They may say they have everyone's interests at heart but I disagree. I for one will certainly applaud troop maneouvres.

[spudqueen]

Personally I think it's a crying shame that a lot of things which used to be moved around on the railways (I can think of newspapers and mail off the top of my head) are now transported up and down the country by lorries clogging up the roads.

[jno]

China has been industrialising rapidly over the past few years, and demanding more and more oil. That's helped create a world shortage (because China is huge), which means prices go up. The planet's oil reserves are not infinite. Hauliers should probably protest outside the Chinese embassy - or the US embassy, because American demands for petrol to run SUVs and Hummers on are also enormous.

[Dom Tuk]

Jno....so we protest against the chinese for trying to build a modern and superior nation and improving the lives of a billion of their people. What did we do to reach where we are. We used na lot of resources to get where we are. we polluted this earth. We plundered and stole....face it now it is someone elses turn to lord it.

[woofgang]

dunno why they blockade refineries when most of the cost of a gallon of fuel is tax and goes straight to the government...go blockade downing street instead!!!!

[Topsy]

As a self-employed courier who runs an LPG vehicle whose fuel results in fewer pollutants and only costs 30 - 40p a litre I really couldn't care less.

[jno]

my tongue may have been 3mm into my cheek there, Dom Tuk - my real point was that it isn't necessarily the refineries who are to blame, so blockading them is no more useful than blockading the Yellow River. It's the law of supply and demand that's pushing the price up.