The idea of boycotting a particular company seems kind of stupid to me. If it happened it would lower prices in the super short term, ie this week. Everyone would then fill up there & bang, up go the prices & welcome back to square one. If BP were to go out of buisiness their facilities and assests would just be sold on & it would achieve nothing. It isnt a buyers market at all. That is just plain wrong. How can it be a buyers market? Its supply restrained!!
Chrislong why are small cars crappy? Id like to see people leave their egos at home a bit more & think differently when it comes to chosing which cars to run. I know a guy who runs a TVR Tuscan and I know a guy who has a Porsche 928, both awesome cars that cannot fail to leave you with a smile every time you drive them. But they go down to the shops on a saturday afternoon in a Vauxhall Astra & a 10 year old Renault Clio respectively. The money they save enables them to run much better 2nd cars & keep them in proper reliable shape & have enough change to fill em up & go for a spin on Sunday. I dont get why people try to make 1 car tick all the boxes, you just end up making too many comprimises. These days you can get so many excellent, reliable, fuel efficient 2nd hand cars now for small money, its madness the "keeping up with the jones" new car mentality that so many people seem to have.
The government could really help this thinking by giving small cars tax breaks & really hitting the big engines hard. I would love to see this happen, with the rates going up more for expensive, oil-slaughtering cars...4 liter engine? £800 tax per year. 6 liter? £1500. Id like to see a revival of something similar to what happened in Japan with all the tiny Kei cars in the 90s. They ruled.
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