Exhorbitant petrol prices

is Shell not part of BP as my work fuel card allows me to buy fuel in either stations???

Prick.

This kind of s*it is only forwarded by people who don't know how the petroleum retail industry works.

(Your starter for 10....... BP supply Morrisons)

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No. Though places like Tesco probably buy their fuel from all sorts of places, some of which likely include BP and Shell so the idea's a bit of a non-starter.

Won't work. What would work is if everyone filled up their car tomorrow and drove off without paying for it. That would be really funny, and cause fuel prices to plummet quite quickly :)

Hellraiser.............>

that's ok, I use optimax.

no kidding

Except there'll be lots of redundancy and duplication, probably only reach about 5000 people in six generations and even then only maybe one in a hundred will bother - so that's 50 people not being BP/Esso fuels - that's really gonna change the world.

Probably more like 6000.

Potential, yes, potentially. Reality is something else.

Yeahhhhh right. The government could make this happen tomorrow. They won't.

My morrisons get its fuel from Esso.

spoilsport :p

Buy at Tesco. They have an instore refinery.

Steve

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Where they waft the smell of petrol across the road to make you want to rush in and buy some - like coffee shops and bakeries.

I think we need to be putting more effort into electric vehicles. They're no good for work where we drive 1000+ miles/week (nor for people like myself who tow a caravan), but most of our people commute in from less than 20 miles so they'd be fine for that. Okay, so you still need to generate electricity to charge them, but this can be done in a variety of ways and not of all which are 'dirty'.

As you said, subsidised public transport could be done (they already subsidise trains and planes, but not buses I'm told), but it would need expanding to cover a much wider area than it currently does and with more frequency, which of course increases fuel use, congestion and pollution...

I think the only real long-term solution is to make people work from home where possible, rather than having to go to a specific building. Obviously this won't work for many jobs, but for sales people, etc. it is becoming a reality with the improvements in broadband, video conferencing, etc.

Darren

Now, there's an idea.

Send the CCTV coverage down my ADSL connection and give me a live link to the tannoy, and I'd be sorted :-)

well to go by plane from norwich to newcastle-upon-tyne costs over £400,,, by train over £75,, by car there and back £65

i know which one i prefer

Reminds me of an old song Guy, "In an instore refinery where God paints the scenery".. I'll collect me coat on the way out :o(

You're looking at the wrong airlines, then.

Most internal UK flights can be got for well under £100.

In fact, the last one I looked at was £48 return from Cardiff to Newcastle.

In message , Malc writes

Where there is enough demand to run full buses, there are already bus services. Where there isn't, there aren't. Further subsidies would make it economically viable to drive nearly empty buses round at 8 miles per gallon, most of them kicking filthy particulates out. I don't actually see how that helps the environment.

the only plane from norwich to newcastle-upon-tyne goes to amsterdam first :(

So when is drive off day? They don't persue drive offs do they?

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They do round here in Telford.

Hybrids are the next generation before full electric / fuel cell / whatever - the Lexus RX430 is faster than the petrol version but recently tested at 61mpg in town.

but...

but...

but...

... how you gonna stack them shelves?

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