Pipeline. Yet another scam or real progress?

The person behind it, Ben Scammel, does have a track record regarding fuel protests, so there is a lot of goodwill towards what he is trying to do.

The worry is that there is not that much margin for reduction in prices, even with 100,000+ members and that the petrol industry might bow to pressure from other large retailers to not allow pipeline to succeed.

Even if it is a success, I feel the real effort ought to be aimed at the government - the treasury in particular. The taxation on oil and petrol is too crude (apologies for the pun). When oil prices rise the tax take rises, when prices fall the tax take falls. Behind this the government has a budget of what it expects to earn from such tax revenue for the coming years.

The budget figure ought to be fixed and a sliding scale of tax applied depending on oil prices. That way we poor citizens would know what the price of car transport was likely to be and would be able to budget properly ourselves.