direct action spanish style ..... it will be interesting to see if the spanish goverment can or will do anything to help the lorry drivers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2099077/Spanish-truckers-begin-fuel-strike.html
[Edited on 10/6/08 by woodster]
the italians did it a couple of weeks ago,government got on its high horse but backed down within days....i love a good revolution
Good.
I was looking at fillinf my small efficent car (Micra) yesterday, and it was £45 I'm lucky I only use a tank a week for work, but still it's
getting silly now
Thats what we need in this country, go slows don't work when the traffic cops 'manage' the go slow to minimize disruption. Whats the
point?
As EVERYTHING we use in this country is delivered in trucks why don't they just park up for a week? It will get rid of this greedy government
sharpish!
because the govermeant are so greedy truckers won't be able to afford a week unpaid!
Ah but think of the money they'll save not buying fuel.
I thought the complaint was the cost of fuel meant they didn't make a profit.
And the M1 will be like the good old days, E Type style
how can any of this help? The duty is the smae but the cost of the raw material is rocketing.
nuking india/china/usa/europe to reduce demand or invading the middle east is the only solution, oh hang on, we've done that and bu&&er
all good that was. 
I saw an interview on the news when the lorry protests here were going on - They interviewed a european (Think he was danish) lorry drivers
union/association/head honcho.
They asked him what could be done to to help the situation now and for the future to which he replied send more goods by rail! 
its not just demand, iits supply. the fact that oil companies are controlling production to maintain high costs.
If you can get $139 for a product which costs you the same to produce as when it was being sold at $89, then thats a lovely bit of profit margin. If
you multiply it by a few million barrels then its not supprising that oil companies are making record profits.
Found this when i was reading about the spanish truckers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/fair_deal_for_drivers/2102148/Fuel-strike-threat-forces-emergency-tactics.html