I'm all in favour of people getting off their arses and showing their displeasure, but I can't help thinking anger at the government is a bit misplaced.
Crude Oil prices at the moment are in the $95 range, but Petrol is like £2 a litre. In 2005 crude oil was in the $130 region, but petrol was around £1.20.
This, together with the failure to pass the duty cut on to consumers, all smacks to me of naked profiteering by fuel companies, so rather than block roads, why don't the protestors organise some consumption strikes? If everyone in the UK stopped buying fuel from say Shell, they'd bloody soon cut their prices. A rolling programme of consumption strikes would sort it out permanently.
We're very used to the notion that companies collude informally to raise prices, but we've not really learned how consumers can organise and unite to force them down. Once people feel sufficiently strongly about something, they will unites and co-operate. Ever tried buying a copy of the Sun in Liverpool?
