Petrol Prices, time to revolt

You said Boycott Esso

I assume you will have to get your gasoline somewhere else right?

 

Cant we just use cookin oil

 

BTW, not everyone uses an SUV just for fun. I am looking at possibly having to buy one because of the seats. I need a minimum of 8 seats for my family. However I do get a bit peaved that 99% of the big vehicles with huge v-8 engines seem to only hold 1 person. But that is a choice someone has. So many of those people never even use the SUV for anything but driving, no big loads, no other people or just 1 other person. Silly but it is their choice.

Most people drive SUV's to be cool, it is funny to drive by the Upper-class part of town to see the 3 car garage with a suburban, BMW and a 4 door pickup in front of every house! I guess I am not cool, but I also can care less if people think I am or not, if you have to buy certain cars to be cool, then you must not be in my book. LOL

 

Thats what I thought. So we agree that an email to boycott one oil company does nothing to address the situation.

 

Thats right, fair enough to the people who need them (farmers, etc) but why does the average housewife need one who never leaves town just to drop the kids of at school.

 

yes i totaly agree with you.

But there is never going to be one big thing that changes how the world works. It is going to be hundreds of little things. i think boycottin esso is a start (just my oppinion - dont bite my head off lol).

 

Absolutely, and their freedom to have that vehicle and drive it that way should be protected. But they can't expect their not to be a cost involved (and not a "sin tax").

If they are comfortable with that, and most seem to be, then thats their right.

There will be SUV hybrids and hydro cars int he next 10 years though

 

Because it's a status symbol and people are shallow like that.

 

It started with that blasted PT Cruiser here. Before that no one wanted a big status car here (That was probably the biggest car available at the time). Now they are slowly getting a bit bigger.

The thing is the tax to own a big car is huge here. It is only in the last year or two that people have started paying that tax willingly.

 

We dont get taxed on bigger cars in the uk like that, it does increase but not substantialy enough.

A young lad of 21 got killed a few months ago in the city center of chester a few months ago.

The driver was a woman with her kids in the car and she was only doin about 30 apparently. She has no need for that car in a city center and if she was in a normal car he most probably would have been ok, he got caught in the bull bars and was dragged a short distance.

 

I thought about getting this Suburban, cause it would give us plenty of seats and it is a diesel so it gets better mileage and can be changed to use veggie oil.
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but my wife wouldn't let me.....

 

That is the main objection I have actually. Have a car you look cool in, no problem. Have a car that kills, not OK. And it's not just pedestrians that gets killed, it's people in other (smaller) cars as well. The fact that they suck up gas is just another point to object.

yfs1 <- as far as sin taxes I'm not all that happy either, but some things must pay society what they cost and I don't think petrol does that yet. We get oil spills in the baltic sea at regular intervals just because some idiot thinks it's a wise idea to flush their tanks at sea rather than pay for the service in port. The price to clean all that up should in my view be paid by the users of the end product (or even better by the polluter themselves and then by the consumer as the transport bussiness is no charity as far as I know).

 

You should have to take some kind of course and pass a test before you're allowed to drive one of those big ass trucks.

The average housewife should not be driving this without a special license.



I love it when you see someone driving one of these trucks while talking on a cell phone, putting on makeup and trying to change lanes.

 

The average man shouldn't be let anywhere near that kind of vehicle

 

yes sirreeee! I am tired of seeing that kind of driving.

 

I should note, that's not just women. Men are probably more dangerous behind the wheel of these things because they drive as if they have a sports car.

 

You should have seen how I use to drive the 72 VW camper I had. (about 17 -19 years old then)
Did you know that you can go fast around a corner in one of those and not fall over? I have proven that theory hundreds of times, skidding around corners and even getting up on two wheels where it was balanced once! that smilie is what the guy next to me looked like and I am not kidding!

The engine was out of a 914 porsche that I put into it. Along with some webber carbs and a modified distributor, that thing would pull wheelies. My back bumper was scratched up and my exhaust was a bit pinched from hitting it. - I had tooooo much fun driving that thing.

 

That is crazy....while 1/2 of his country is marginally literate.

 

HEY, MY wife drives one of those and gets the same mileage as our friends mini-van SO THERE!

 

Here is Rob's SUV after his last mishap, luckily the guy had already left his pickup



Now you see why his name is CRAZY rob?