4 Comments

• tristan 10th Feb '07 - 5:39pm

  Its a great way for them to get publicity and be seen as defending ‘the ordinary man on the street’.

• ColinW 12th Feb '07 - 11:19am

  surprise, surprise……..

• James 9th Jan '08 - 11:44pm

  Interesting enough Spence left soon after he joined the BNP, he said it was not the party he thought it was! Its whats ordinary folks have been saying for years, BNP are an evil party, they promise lots, deliver little.

• Jimmy Steele 15th May '11 - 11:55am

  Where there’s money there’s crime, and don’t tell me that fuel pump calibration equipment is tamper proof, there’s enough money in fuel now to pay the best criminal minds on the planet. If banks can fraudulently sell PPI to customers, then garages can tweak fuel pump calibrations!

  There is plenty of talk about people being financially crippled by continuing increase of fuel prices, yet very little talk about people having money stolen directly from them by the fraudulent calibration of fuel pumps.
  How many of you have noticed that you are spending around the same amount to fill up your vehicle when it is nearly quarter full as you are when it is even bone dry? And the price of the fuel is the same or in some cases even cheaper.
  It happens to me on a regular basis as I do around 600 miles per week and when I tell people; they say that they experience the same thing, yet what can we do about it?

  For example, my car is bone dry, the fuel warning light on, 4 miles to go on the computer screen, I fill up at 134.9, and it costs me £72. A few days later I have a long journey planned, so I want to fill up, and my car is then just under quarter full, 89 miles left on the computer screen, I see a garage at 133.9, “hooray it’s a penny cheaper”, so I fill up, and it still costs me £68. What, How, Why???
  Obviously I immediately speak to the garage manager and accuse them of tampering with the pump calibrations. What else can it be, lets face it, if a garage tweaks the pumps say even 5p per litre and they have 400 cars per day going through 200 garages, it’s big money. I personally think it is more around 30p per litre at some garages.
  It would be interesting to do a survey to see how many people feel they are not actually getting the amount of fuel that they are paying for or the pump/receipt tells them they are getting.
  How many people would actually siphon off their tank to measure how much fuel they are really getting? Not many if any at all!
  There ought to be a telephone number displayed at each garage that you can call immediately you leave a garage where you know you have been completely ripped’ to make a complaint, and in fact it should be 999, lets face it, in any other theft situation you would call 999, but having said that the police authorities are too busy calibrating the speed cameras, but that’s another subject.
  What the hell, lets open that one up for debate also. Have you ever been issued a speeding ticket for just over 30mph when you know you were doing just under as you had slowed down when you saw the camera?
  Can we ever beat these legalised extortionists? NEVER!