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

[neeko]

So now Shell drivers are going to go on stike cos they think their 1.5x RPI inflation pay rise is not enough.

"Drivers have rejected an improved offer of a 6.8% pay rise, which the companies claim would have increased drivers' average salaries, including overtime, from £36,500 to around £39,000 a year. "

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7446130.stm

And ther union bloke was on the BBC news saying their job is "dangerous", er yeah right.

So the Army is paid £17k - so given the danger factors I think shell drivers face they should be paid about £5k per year given the "danger" they face every day.

do union bosses only appear on TV to look stupid or do they have a purpose?

[Grier78]

So now Shell drivers are going to go on stike cos they think their 1.5x RPI inflation pay rise is not enough.

"Drivers have rejected an improved offer of a 6.8% pay rise, which the companies claim would have increased drivers' average salaries, including overtime, from £36,500 to around £39,000 a year. "

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7446130.stm

And ther union bloke was on the BBC news saying their job is "dangerous", er yeah right.

So the Army is paid £17k - so given the danger factors I think shell drivers face they should be paid about £5k per year given the "danger" they face every day.

do union bosses only appear on TV to look stupid or do they have a purpose?

I think a job swap is in order.

[boldie]

So now Shell drivers are going to go on stike cos they think their 1.5x RPI inflation pay rise is not enough.

"Drivers have rejected an improved offer of a 6.8% pay rise, which the companies claim would have increased drivers' average salaries, including overtime, from £36,500 to around £39,000 a year. "

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7446130.stm

And ther union bloke was on the BBC news saying their job is "dangerous", er yeah right.

So the Army is paid £17k - so given the danger factors I think shell drivers face they should be paid about £5k per year given the "danger" they face every day.

do union bosses only appear on TV to look stupid or do they have a purpose?

Sack the lot of em and give the jobs to British Haulier companies..everybody happy

[rajkan]

Last-ditch talks aimed at averting a four-day strike by hundreds of fuel tanker drivers in a row over pay have broken down.

The drivers, who deliver fuel to Shell petrol stations across the UK, will now go ahead with the walk-out from 6am on Friday, leading to fears of petrol shortages.

Officials from the Unite union and managers from two firms which deliver fuel to Shell garages held more than nine hours of talks to try to break the deadlocked dispute, following 10 hours of negotiations on Wednesday.

But Unite announced that the talks had broken down and said the strike would go ahead as planned.

Hoyer and Suckling Transport, the two firms involved in the dispute, said they had put two offers to the union - an increase for this year of 7.3% backdated to January 1 2008, which would take average earnings to over £39,000, with a further 6% increase from January 1 2009, which would take earnings to around £41,500.

The firms said they asked the union to suspend the strike and put the offers to a ballot of the workers but accused Unite of refusing.

Spokesman Bernie Holloway said: "We offered a substantial amount to the drivers. We extended our offer to the very limits that our business could sustain. We are disappointed that our improved offers have been rejected. Unfortunately, it looks likely now that there will be a damaging and costly strike."

Car drivers in some parts of the country have already started to panic-buy fuel despite pleas from the Government and the oil and transport industries to fill up cars as normal.

Some people admitted they were topping up half-full petrol tanks even though this could lead to shortages. One in 10 of Britain's 9,500 filling stations will be affected by the industrial action.

The Government has drawn up contingency plans to deal with the stoppage, allowing suppliers to share information about stocks without falling foul of competition laws.

[MPOWER]

So now Shell drivers are going to go on stike cos they think their 1.5x RPI inflation pay rise is not enough.

"Drivers have rejected an improved offer of a 6.8% pay rise, which the companies claim would have increased drivers' average salaries, including overtime, from £36,500 to around £39,000 a year. "

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7446130.stm

And ther union bloke was on the BBC news saying their job is "dangerous", er yeah right.

So the Army is paid £17k - so given the danger factors I think shell drivers face they should be paid about £5k per year given the "danger" they face every day.

do union bosses only appear on TV to look stupid or do they have a purpose?

It's a bit like people posting on forums do they do it to look stupid or do they have a purpose?

Regards

M

[Royal Flush]

Filled up today, £75, can't wait to burn it all!!!

[fergus8]

I think they should be higher.

To keep poor people off the roads.

haha. spot on. i hate traffic jams, and poor people cause 93% of jams statistically

[ItsMrAlex2u]

Oil falls to 8 month low, below $90 a barrel from its peak of $147 a barrel in July

Thats strange, I havent noticed a 40 percent drop in pump prices!!!

Robbing B@stards are quick enough to put the prices up in line with rising oil prices but only give the odd gesture of a 2p price drop when the price goes back again.

[Acidmouse]

Cheapest around us is about 1.06 not gone down much really.

[kinboshi]

Oil falls to 8 month low, below $90 a barrel from its peak of $147 a barrel in July

Thats strange, I havent noticed a 40 percent drop in pump prices!!!

Robbing B@stards are quick enough to put the prices up in line with rising oil prices but only give the odd gesture of a 2p price drop when the price goes back again.

Someone was telling me earlier that the profit Shell made last year was considerably more than the amount Lloyds paid for HBOS.  Don't know what that means, but I thought it was interesting.

[Bongo]

Pound has also fallen v the $ absorbing some of those falls.

[Bongo]

Oil falls to 8 month low, below $90 a barrel from its peak of $147 a barrel in July

Thats strange, I havent noticed a 40 percent drop in pump prices!!!

Robbing B@stards are quick enough to put the prices up in line with rising oil prices but only give the odd gesture of a 2p price drop when the price goes back again.

Someone was telling me earlier that the profit Shell made last year was considerably more than the amount Lloyds paid for HBOS.  Don't know what that means, but I thought it was interesting.

That Shell sell lots of Petrol and Lloyds got a bargain?

[Grier78]

Oil falls to 8 month low, below $90 a barrel from its peak of $147 a barrel in July

Thats strange, I havent noticed a 40 percent drop in pump prices!!!

Robbing B@stards are quick enough to put the prices up in line with rising oil prices but only give the odd gesture of a 2p price drop when the price goes back again.

The majority of the price is tax which wont budge by much when the price goes down, there are also other fixed costs associated with petrol production, so each $10 reduction in the price of oil will only affect Petrol prices by about 2-3p.

[rossfourfive]

Oil fell to $78 today. The same price it was trading at a year ago when we were getting petrol for ~85 pence a litre.

[gatso]

Oil fell to $78 today. The same price it was trading at a year ago when we were getting petrol for ~85 pence a litre.

pretty sure you weren't getting petrol for 85p a year ago. it went over the 90p mark in most areas in 2005 and I don't think it dropped below that again did it?