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The fuel protesters

no name | 18.01.2002 10:57

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I reckon the fuel protesters were alright.
These weren't people who couldn't be arsed to pay an environmental premium because they were tight gits.

These were people who relied on their cars (in the absence of a decent public transport system) and who couldn't afford the high prices of petrol.

Surely until most people have access to an alternative to the car, it's unfair to charge extortionate prices for petrol that people can't afford.

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not ordinary people

18.01.2002 15:57

The fuel protestors were a make up of the haulage industry, and the large-scale farming industry (who get tax free red diesel anyhow) . IE they were capalatist scum trying to screw as much out of us, while giving our kids asthma and lead poisoning. I didn't see them campaigning against unfair taxing of the rural or urban working class.

Farmer Piles

They were just shoppers.

19.01.2002 13:26

IT's true that alternatives are systematically denied but the fuel protesters weren't thinking like that. They just wanted more when they are already using far more than their fare share of everything. Work it out for yourself with the footprint calculator at rprogress.org. In short they were bunch of greedy bastids.

Tim