Petrol Prices - Are they to high - What can we do about it.

[boldie]

Can normal engines cope with that?

with no modification a normal engine can run with up to 10% ethanol. the 10% mix is already used in quite a few countries. several US states have made it a legal requirement that all petrol sold has the 10% mix and quite a few supermarket sites in the UK now include it as well.

whether the supermarket sites advertise the fact or not I'm unsure but I'd assume they have to as the power/volume ratio is lower for ethanol than petrol.

hmm...interesting stuff. I'll have a quick read through their website later...I just hope Mrs B will allow me to make ethanol at home as...well I have a history with being a bit clumsy..sometimes..very occasionally..and she's just outright dangerous and i would let her near explosive substances...but it'd be great fun

[Newmanseye]

Vegtable oil FTW all diesel drivers stock up on veg oil and fill up on that, Its cheaper!!

Remember the Diesel engine was originally supposed to run on Peanut oil......FACT

[rajkan]

Run your car with water. Have a look. www.drivewithwaterfuel.com/?hop=t0daysale

[boldie]

Run your car with water. Have a look. www.drivewithwaterfuel.com/?hop=t0daysale

"This technology is proven. Only a small amount of water is needed as well, for example: one quart of water provides you with over 1800 gallons of HHO gas, which will last you for months as fuel, this will save you heaps of money at the same time as improving your vehicles fuel efficiency dramatically."

oh boy...this surely has to be a piss take.

[rajkan]

Boldie, you make me laugh.

[rajkan]

I was just looking at alternatives and came across that article, don't you think it works.

[Ecosse]

In my email from a friend today :-


REMINDER...

We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 2.00 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certain day campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT,whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join in!

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.


If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers. It's really simple to do!!

Now, don't wimp out at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it... ..

THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.(and not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt,
all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! Acting together we can make a difference . If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso



 




 

[kinboshi]

"It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso"

Sainsbury's petrol is BP.

[Ecosse]

"It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso"

Sainsbury's petrol is BP.

You really are a fountain of knowledge Kin ! 

[Royal Flush]

Raj i think you might be my favourite poster, i used to look forward to reading AndrewT's posts most but you have now taken that mantle.

I thank you.

[rajkan]

Raj i think you might be my favourite poster, i used to look forward to reading AndrewT's posts most but you have now taken that mantle.

I thank you.

LOL.. is it because there so bad.

[gatso]

Raj i think you might be my favourite poster, i used to look forward to reading AndrewT's posts most but you have now taken that mantle.

I thank you.

lolz, I was just thinking exactly the same. when I saw Raj had posted on this thread again I couldn't wait to open it.

[Colchester Kev]

Run your car with water. Have a look. www.drivewithwaterfuel.com/?hop=t0daysale

Erica is a sort imo.

[gatso]

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it... ..

THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
 

impeccable logic. in fact I'm amazed that this hasn't already reached 300,000,000 people and that the global oil business hasn't already been crushed.

I think what they forgot to factor in is that most people aren't stupid enough to forward this shit to other people.

and as for the rest of the email, well we seem to have ignored that the supermarkets buy their petrol from the big fuel companies and the big companies all share depots so it all comes out of the same big tank anyway

[rajkan]

Bikers stage fuel price protest
  5 June 2008 03:56pm
Scores of bikers have caused rush-hour disruption in a protest against rising fuel prices.

The protesters gathered at Birch services on the M62 north of Manchester before heading off in a slow-moving convoy.

The demo was organised by motorcycling groups, but they were joined by some taxi and lorry drivers.

Police stopped traffic on the motorway before the bikers left the service station, bound for Salford. The Highways Agency warned motorists to find alternative routes if possible.

It was the latest in a long line of fuel protests and came as some Labour backbenchers joined a chorus of voices warning Prime Minister Gordon Brown not to go ahead with a planned 2p increase in fuel duty this autumn.

Police estimate between 400 and 500 bikers took part in the protest.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said a "small number" of lorry drivers failed to comply with the rules agreed with the organisers of today's protest.

The truckers were accused of breaking away from the protest group and driving at an unacceptably slow speed.

Assistant Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said: "The vast majority of those taking part have expressed their views in a way that was agreed with police, that was safe for motorists and that caused minimum disruption.

"We are disappointed that a small number of other demonstrators let them down and acted in an unacceptable way, causing added disruption to some drivers."