Why hasn’t the price of petrol/Diesel dropped here in the UK

NaRvIcK DeViL · 02-11-2008, 10:54 PM

Why hasn’t the price of petrol/Diesel dropped here in the UK in line with the price of Crude Oil?

I visit France just about every weekend (French girlfriend ooh la, la ,ain’t I lucky

), when the price of oil (Light crude) reached $100, the cost of petrol at the pump (A Esso garage by the way!) where I regularly buy my fuel ‘when I’m there’ for my car soared to 1.22 Euros (78 pence per litre),

Over the past few weeks, as the price of Oil has dropped, so has the price. So how come the price at the pump here in the UK hasn’t dropped? As a matter of fact it’s sneaked up a few extra pennies!!

As a British Subject I’m coming to the end of my tether and I’m just about there….

May I suggest if there is going to be any fuel protests that bring this country to a stand still, I for one will not complain, as I now confess I did the last time.

If it’s going to succeed instead of blockading the fuel refinery’s and distribution sites
That’s what they’ll expect all haulage firms to do and will have planned contingences in place, you should just stop all deliveries of all essential goods, essentially ‘Cease Trading’ and blockade the ports in the same way the French are so good at showing us.

It means that UK firms who distribute the necessities food, water etc, May go to the wall but if the haulage representatives that have been in the media spotlight are correct that’s what’s going to happen anyway if this is allowed to continue And there is that saying that is true today as its ever been, every nation is 3 meals away from civil disobedience.

I never thought I would ever be writing this but I’m so fed up with being blatantly ‘In your face’ ripped off by the state that have legally sanctioned this kind of behaviour, for themselves and the oil companies.

waltky · 08-12-2008, 11:59 PM

The latest poop on diesel fuel...

Lab makes diesel fuel from E. coli poop
Tue August 12, 2008 - Some biotech laboratories are using bacteria to create a form of diesel fuel; "Production facilities" are so small, you can see them only under a microscope; Bacteria are fed plant material, or sugar, and excrete the equivalent of diesel; Experts say the process is still too small-scale to be a viable energy alternative

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Fossil fuels that keep our planet running -- oil, natural gas and coal -- were created from the decomposition of plants, plankton and other organic material over millions of years. Today, scientists all over the globe are working to create fuels with the same properties but without that pesky 100 million-year wait. And "renewable petroleum" is now a reality, on a small scale, in some laboratories. The biotech company LS9 Inc. is using single-celled bacteria to create an oil equivalent. These petroleum "production facilities" are so small, you can see them only under a microscope.

"We started in my garage two years ago, and we're producing barrels today, so things are moving pretty quickly," said biochemist Stephen del Cardayre, LS9 vice president of research and development. How does it work? A special type of genetically altered bacteria are fed plant material: basically, any type of sugar. They digest it and excrete the equivalent of diesel fuel. Humans have used bacteria and yeast for centuries to do similar work, creating beer, moonshine and, more recently, ethanol. But scientists' recent strides in genetic engineering now allow them to control the end product.

"So these are bacteria that have been engineered to produce oil," del Cardayre said. "They started off like regular lab bacteria that didn't produce oil, but we took genes from nature, we engineered them a bit [and] put them into this organism so that we can convert sugar to oil." The company is focusing on diesel fuel, but the microbes can be "programmed" to make gasoline or jet fuel. The bacteria used are a harmless form of E. coli. And the feedstock, or food for the microbes, can be any type of agricultural product, from sugar cane to waste such as wheat straw and wood chips. Choosing plants with no food value sidesteps one of the biggest criticisms of another synthetic fuel, corn ethanol, because critics say that corn should be used as food, not fuel.

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