Ian
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Please get this out of your heads.
This won't make a blind bit of difference to anything.
Try not buying something non-perishable from any other shop for one day only, then go the day after and see if the price is lower or the shop is shut.
Of course it won't be. Don't be so silly.
If you want cheaper petrol, stop using so much. Until then, look happy.
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Jenko_Sport
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Facebook rants not enough Ian haha
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DannyB
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At our garage at work we get people coming in complaining to the person working behind the counter about the price of fuel  fuck off you cunt if it's too expensive, drive another ten miles then pay the same. We get told by shell how much we have to sell it for, and we make 2p a litre profit, no more.
[Edited on 30-03-2011 by DannyB]
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John
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I'm not buying any on the 1st.
Because I've got an almost full tank, I'm sticking it to The Man.
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Jed D
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Ian's rite!, but if we all filled up at the cheapest ones all the time and refused to use the bigger name ones they'd end up having too much left and would be forced to reduce it (that is if everyone done it rite?)
find the cheapest and use them!!
also if you fill up your tank wouldn't you end up using more due to weight?
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Ian
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I keep getting invited or seeing people agreeing to this poppycock.
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John
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Don't use facebook. Works for me 
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Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by JedDy
they'd end up having too much left and would be forced to reduce it
They wouldn't be forced to do anything. At most, some of the distribution companies would struggle and their infrastructure would be bought by the companies who had not been targetted.
At most, it would cost them a bit of paint to re-brand the tankers.
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adiohead
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blockade is the only solution
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alan-g-w
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Bit negative tbh. I can see where you're coming from Ian but I reckon the point behind something like this would be for the big companies to see a significant drop in sales - if even 40% of fuel users boycotted the garages for a day they'd see massive 'losses' - I use the inverted commas for the sheer fact that all these people are just going to get the same amount of petrol they'd have got on the 1st on the 2nd instead. But it'll still show up in the oil companies' figures as a day where they made X amount of millions less.
I think something needs to be done. Small scale isn't going to work - which in turn probably means that nothing is unfortunately.
[Edited on 31-03-2011 by alan-g-w]
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Cybermonkey
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But surely on the 2nd, their sales would be through the roof??? Blockade would be the only meaningful way, but even then what good is it going to do? The UK is down the shitter financially and everyone would suffer from a weeklong blockade
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pow
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I'm gunna buy fuel tomorrow because I have a bonus points voucher to use in April
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Jed D
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if i had a diesel i'd run red
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pow
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That's an amazing post count bumping reply there
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ed
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The cost of fuel is only going to go up. It's time for people to stop making 60 mile round trips to work and think about what they're doing.
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3CorsaMeal
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i'm buying a mk3 astra diesel and going to beat the system.
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Gary
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Some folk are stupid. If noone fills up on the 1st then they'll either buy more the day before or the day after. People will still use the same amount of fuel, just buy it on a different day. Fuel companies wont loose out.
The only way to get fuel prices down is to not use any. Job done. But unfortunatly for us, weve had cars for so long now wer cant live without so jobs fucked.
Or you could always buy a Prius 
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McWillster
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quote:
Originally posted by Gary
Or you could always buy a Prius
And still have to fill it up with petrol? 
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whitter45
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stanlow has been sold anyway if people were thinking of protesting there
Went for over £220m
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adiohead
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We should invade Iraq and Afghanistan 
......Oh wait
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mwg
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I'm going to fill up tomorrow, should be no queues if no one else is buying
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Steve
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ur the april fool
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Jed D
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
That's an amazing post count bumping reply there
of course
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AuroraSport
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If they reduce the price of petrol, it'll only bump up some tax elsewhere. Either way we're in a hole and the only way to dig out is taking our money.
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flybikeslee
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yawn
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