[Nicksyb]

A question I posed to my work colleagues today was -

'How come a couple of years back when the price of petrol hit the £1 mark we protested and brought the country to a near stand still which helped lower the cost if I remember rightly. So how come this time when in my area petrol has just hit £1.29 and Diesel £1.30 the same hasn't happened with the protests etc?'

I suppose what I am trying to get at is that all these protests that everyone has organised have not really done much apart from slow down travelling, where as if we did what happened before (see above) then we might actually get the governments attention.