| People whine about how about how much money Shell and BP made last year, but I think you get a good deal on the price of fuel, considering its not much more expensive than bottled water, even though its been drilled out of a deep hole, sent half way around the world, refined etc.
I don't agree with how much money the government make in tax on it, since your are mostly paying tax when you fill up.
Ghandi had the right idea 'passive resistance'. If everybody in the country refused to work a full working week, and instead worked on 3 working days a week, watch the economy crumble, the country would be buggered in days, stock market would fall, foreign investment would pull money out the country and the government would have to back down.
A few sweaty truckers outside a fuel depot won't change anything really.
Its not hard to start a revolution, just needs enough people to start it... |