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Kentucky Fried Panda
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 Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: Biker fuel price protests in Manchester. |
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if you're travelling around the city on Thursday, expect delays.
| Quote: | A MASSIVE 'go-slow' protest against high fuel prices is set to bring roads across Greater Manchester to a standstill.
More than a thousand bikers are expected to join forces to cause havoc on motorways and major routes into the city centre to demonstrate their anger at the soaring cost of petrol.
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CountingDown
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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I find that the sad thing about all these protests is . . . who are they protesting against? It'd be great if petrol prices came down, and stayed down - but it isn't going to happen is it - the only way is up.
Sure we could cut fuel excise, thereby bankrupting the country a little more, but the reduction in tax would quickly be eaten up by another increase in oil prices.
Strikes me there is a bit of a "King Canute" thing going on here, trying to turn back the tide of rising energy prices. Maybe people will start to spot the pattern soon, and peak oil will become a widely discussed issue? We can dream . . . |
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Kentucky Fried Panda
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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old news, nothing to see here...
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Mark
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RenewableCandy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Why bikers?? Surely they use less fuel than any other motorists on the road. Now truckers...
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Quintus
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 1:28 am Post subject: |
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I don't know about biking, but I seem to recall reading that the total cost of motoring (inc. fuel) is more than 10% down since 1997; unlike the cost of my train tickets!
Sorry, not got a source for this. |
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Kentucky Fried Panda
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't go, I'm currently between bikes after some health complications, maybe next year.
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