[Madhatter]

You should get your fact right before commenting driller. The farmers who turned up to block the oil depots, including kingsbury here, did so because they wanted supermarkets to put a penny on milk. The hgv drivers that quickly joined on the bandwagon, turned it to a fuel protest, the farmers agreed and put the milk protest on hold because it was yet another area where the farmers were suffereing. Not just because of their fuel costs but because of the supermarkets collection and delivery to stores fuel costs. It has a knock on all through the industry. It's not just farmers though is it, its hauliers too, but not just food, it's breweries too, fuel add to the charges that the brewery make to staggers. the list goes on.
SO on that basis and that basis alone the farmers decided to go along with it as the public support was out there. They supported it because we all get hammered on the fuel we need to get to work.
ALSO have you ever thought those farmers may use those four by four gas guzzlers as a four by four, far more usefull to a farmer than a car I'd say.
What do you really know about farmers, about farms, about animals, crops, horses, hunting