Lorries Clog Central London
May 27th, 2008, 01:28 PM
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"Many truckers and other businesses are facing ruin because of the high fuel costs"
Complete balderdash. All lorry drivers, in principle, face the same fuel prices and there's no evidence the volume of lorry-freighted goods is declining. And before someone moans about Polish drivers buying cheap fuel, everyone's diesel is going up at the same rate.
So the only people "facing ruin" are hauliers stupid enough to be committed to long-term fixed-price contracts. And if they've been running any business on the basis that fuel prices won't go up, they deserve to go bust.
Pure bloody onanism, these protests.
Complete balderdash. All lorry drivers, in principle, face the same fuel prices and there's no evidence the volume of lorry-freighted goods is declining. And before someone moans about Polish drivers buying cheap fuel, everyone's diesel is going up at the same rate.
So the only people "facing ruin" are hauliers stupid enough to be committed to long-term fixed-price contracts. And if they've been running any business on the basis that fuel prices won't go up, they deserve to go bust.
Pure bloody onanism, these protests.
May 28th, 2008, 12:12 AM
#23
Now the fish discussion is valid but only if the buyer will pay more (it is after all a negotiation).
The fish thing is really about how to get more subsidies for the Spanish and French fishermen. Note that the Spanish used to have a tiny european fishing fleet until they fished out the water close to USA, then bought up the Uk fishing quota and now want more public money.
The french are just being french
The fish thing is really about how to get more subsidies for the Spanish and French fishermen. Note that the Spanish used to have a tiny european fishing fleet until they fished out the water close to USA, then bought up the Uk fishing quota and now want more public money.
The french are just being french
