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It Despite the publicity surrounding this week's Dump the Pumps fuel boycott. most garages across the country were reporting a steady flow of business as CM went to press. The Dump the Pumps organisers were expecting support from more than 100,000 motorists, but early indications suggested this was very optimistic.
Shell—one of the oil giants to slash fuel prices before the day of action—said that it had not "noticed anything dramatically different" in terms of trade.
And fuel management firm PHH has slammed the whole idea of a boycott. "Dump the Pumps is complete and utter rubbish," says Keith Greenhead, director fuel management division. The only people who will suffer will be the retailers and oil companies—it will have zero effect on the Government" Shell denies prices have fallen as a result of the campaign, claiming that the cuts follow a recent drop in the price of crude oil. Big-name supermarkets helped spark the price war in the run-up to the boycott