It's a protest organised by mobile phone and a democratic show of hands outside the Shell Stanlow oil refinery, near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Farmers from Shropshire and road hauliers from Chester stand next to makeshift banners declaring "Blair today, Skint tomorrow" and "Hoot 4 a fuel tax cut".
They talk on their mobile phones to other protesters, about a mile down the road, sharing information about protests and road blocks in other parts of the country. They keep their spirits up with assurances that they won't give up until the government gives in and reduces the duty on fuel.
When Tom Houghton, from the farmers' protest group, Farmers For Action, who is also one of the spokesmen for the Stanlow protest, is handed a microphone, everyone gathers to listen.
From the back of a lorry parked on rough ground outside No 3 entrance to the refinery, Mr Houghton informs the 70 protesters that agreement has been reached with Shell to allow emergency petrol supplies to leave the plant. The question from the protesters is which emergency services will receive fuel.
"North West Trains and local buses?" asks Mr Houghton. But there is a show of hands against allowing fuel out of the refinery for public transport services. The protesters agree that local hospitals, district nurses, doctors and midwives will be given emergency fuel supplies.
The road outside the refinery resembles a car-park. Tractors, lorries and vans are parked at the side of the road. But the protesters are not blocking the road, so Cheshire police officers stand by and watch. The protesters claim that Shell drivers inside the refinery are "100 per cent behind us" and so there are no Shell lorries travelling in or out of the refinery, except for emergency supplies.
"We are the only ones who could bring this country to its feet," says Mr Elmor Davies, who owns a road haulage and demolition company in Chester.
Just like everyone else he says he will stick with the protest "as long as it takes". He says the last straw came when he saw Tony Blair "smirking and grinning" saying the government would not back down over fuel duty. "He looked as if it was a big joke," says Mr Elmore. "Well, it's not a joke to us."
Anger with Tony Blair's government is expressed by all the protesters. Carole, from Chester, serves tea and pork pies to the protesters from a small kitchen in a caravan outside the Stanlow refinery.
"Tony Blair is very good at passing the buck," she says. "This is an unjust tax and we will stay here until we get our own way."
Last night the number of protesters outside the oil refinery had increased to 300. Many were local residents who had joined the protest to express their solidarity with farmers and hauliers against high fuel prices. In a separate development, local taxi drivers joined a "go-slow" protest on the M56 outside Warrington.