If your serious get to London 7th March:
bluenose:
If your serious get to London 7th March:
On a Wednesday? Would get more support if it was not on a normal working day and on the weekend I reckon.
I’ve just heard that diesel is £1.50.9 on the M6.
PinkLadyTrucker:
BP earned $3 million every hour in 2011. Its fourth-quarter profits reached $7.69 billion, which is up 38 percent from 2010.The company is sitting on another $14 billion in cash.
The company continues to scale back its production in the wake of the spill, producing 10 percent less than 2010 levels.
BP contributions to federal candidates totaled more than $98,000 in 2011, with more than half (65 percent) to Republican candidates.
BP spent $8 million lobbying Congress in 2011, down from the record $15 million the company lobbied in 2009 — one year before the oil disaster.
For every dollar the big five oil companies use in lobbying, they effectively receive $30 in subsidies. This could mean BP potentially gained up to $243 million in subsidies, although the exact amount for an individual company is undisclosed.
In the third quarter, BP’s Bob Dudley announced the company had reached a “definite turning point” of boosted profits. However, nearly two years following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP has still only paid $7.8 billion of the $20 billion fund they created to compensate individuals and businesses for losses incurred by the spill.
In order to pay the $40 billion cleanup costs and additional penalties, the company has committed to selling $38 billion worth of assets before 2014.
The British government tax take on road fuel is around £26 billion per year and like here there doesn’t really seem to be much difference between any of the political parties.Labour/Tory/Repuclican/Democrat they all seem the same.But what matters is the bottom line and the fact is it’s tax that is the big rip off here not the price and it seems obvious that it’s not the oil companies that are ripping us off considering the pump price of road fuel in most other parts of the world. 
Can I run the car on bio fuel?
kemaro:
Can I run the car on bio fuel?
Some, yes. You will need to do a bit of research on the net but sometimes ultimately its just a case of giving it a go! Usually older cars (pre electronic) are fine. I run my 1997 Landrover Discovery on it with no problems (when I can get it as the nearest outlet is 30 miles away)
kemaro:
Can I run the car on bio fuel?
Possibly… if you can source it locally. Usually isn’t very much cheaper and depends what type of pump your car has, some are not happy with it.
Perhaps you mean recycled frying oil? Never heard of anybody selling that, users generally build or buy their own still/wash plant. Its quite a labour intensive process. Does produce a low cost product though and you can make/use 2500 lites a year without informing HMRC.
skids:
bluenose:
If your serious get to London 7th March:On a Wednesday? Would get more support if it was not on a normal working day and on the weekend I reckon.
Don’t think MP’s are there at weekends.
bluenose:
skids:
bluenose:
If your serious get to London 7th March:On a Wednesday? Would get more support if it was not on a normal working day and on the weekend I reckon.
Don’t think MP’s are there at weekends.
They probably wont even know you are there, for them to notice anything you need big attendance with media coverage. A small attendance will get little or no coverage.