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FUEL STRIKE!!
They haven't even announced it yet & there were massive queues at the petrol stations on my way home last night. On my way in this morning both places I pass have run out of fuel. Prices are rocketting too.
Is it the same by everyone else or do I live in a particularly stupid area?? :smt021
markc123
28-03-12, 08:25 AM
Didn't see any queues on the way in. Cage is full and parked up until inclement weather anyway, so I'm already hoarding :-).
We had a bigger Que than normal this morning I guess.
Just been on look east news too
dizzyblonde
28-03-12, 12:42 PM
I said this yesterday......didn't take long did it!
Tin hats at the ready.....
What about the scam of tanker drivers going on strike?
Does it not look like some weird convenient time for a strike over pay conditions?
Does anyone else feel this is a push to get the ordinary person into panic buying at the pumps before the strike?
Just because none of us can afford to fill up to go to work and other things means we aren't spending enough on fuel, so the government tax pot is low......panic buyers will be fighting to fill upto the brim and fill the governents coffers. Then when they're just getting near the strike day, and we've spent enough.....strike aborted.......oh come on, I wasn't born yesterday! Summat smells wiffy to me, and it ain't petrol fumes I can smell :rolleyes:
And all whilst Tim Nice But Dim Cameron says on the news....
''if the public feel they have to fill up in light of the forecoming strike...''
hmmmmm I bet hes rubbing his hands already :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
hindle8907
28-03-12, 01:09 PM
But they wouldn't really be any better off they just won't have as many customers over the next week until everyone's tanks start to empty :S ?
Bluepete
28-03-12, 01:15 PM
Does this mean everyone will drive more slowly, like last time?
Pete ;)
dizzyblonde
28-03-12, 01:17 PM
Petrol sales have slumped, due to folk being skint and having to be a little more cautious when they get their fuel and how much to put in.
So what better way to get people to fill up and fast!
Strike over, it goes back to normal and it slumps back down again.....til the next time. Then when all these financial people do their sums, the goverment can then say....seeeeee there was growth in the economy and we are heading out of a recession....blah blah blah....I'm growing tired in my cynical old age.
When they negotiate themselves out of the situation they can then pretend to be the publics champion, and pull the wool over the eyes of everyday man............and fuel will go up to 150p, and we'll all roll over and carry on regardless without grumping about it!
Someone pass me a stick so I can wave it around like Father Jack #rolls eyes#
Ian Hutchinson posted a pic today on twitter of his station sold out. Nuff said.
Mr Speirs
28-03-12, 01:34 PM
I hope they stay on strike. The work van is empty. My car is nearly empty. I'm not going to go fill them up. If I run out sod it. I'll either not go into work or walk the 8 miles and be super late.
Thinking about giving up the car altogether as it's getting insanely expensive to run one.
I just wish the entire country didn't drive for a week, everyone, businesses too just to show the government how crippling it is to tax fuel so heavily. They'd then understand why the economy is f**ked...or maybe they wouldn't.
Urbanfireblade
28-03-12, 02:02 PM
So that's why they put the price up to £1.49/litre standard diesel at esso, so everyone fills up panic buying, then when they drop it 2p/litre after it doesn't matter as they've already made huge profit before the strike.
Oh and the PM has recommended people fill up! Great!
the Government is in serious trouble and they are shiz scared of loosing their credit rating. the current financial climate can't continue at the this stupid rate and there will be a global meltdown by the end of the year.
the Gov has been robbing Peter to pay Paul for far to long.
The whole credit rating system is a joke from individuals to companies right up to countries.
dizzyblonde
28-03-12, 03:26 PM
YAY....more folk with tin hats!
Of course, we can't all be possibly wrong now can we?
Anyway......who wants to buy my house, all its possessions, the Z, the Raptor, the Landy and let me go off to a nice Island in the Med....?
as long as it counts as a tax write off :rolleyes:
dizzyblonde
28-03-12, 03:47 PM
No no, it'll be for good, just need to shed some baggage and never return!
Anywhoooo, theres nowt like our government ministers when it comes to giving the right advice in these sort of situations..... you couldn't script it :lol:
http://www.fbu.org.uk/?p=5393
That man is an idiot!!
This reminds me, time to do some research on biodiesel
Davadvice
28-03-12, 04:36 PM
Why when people talk about the price of petrol it's 145p and not £1.45 ?
does it sound more expensive as one hundred and forty five p than one pound forty five
pointless obs but i can't understand it.
Oh got to get a 25 lts barrle to stock up on unleaded .Heard its a government requisit...
Bluefish
28-03-12, 05:23 PM
Why when people talk about the price of petrol it's 145p and not £6.58 a gallon?
does it sound more expensive as one hundred and forty five p than £6.58 a gallon?
pointless obs but i can't understand it.
There you go, that explain it? ;)
the fuel lorries will still be delivering petrol as they will just hire temp drivers during the dispute but will be under armed guard from the refineries gates as our previous Gov passed a law which makes it illegal to stop the delivering of petrol and any such action will be deemed a national risk. the dispute will serve no purpose as the Gov will do what they want when they want until such times that the public realise that the Gov work for you and I and start demanding they do things different. how can the public do anything about it, simples demand that MP's get sacked for not doing their job properly and introduce a performance related pay system for MP's so if they cost the country money they loose wages. that would soon make them think twice about giving their buddies work that does not need done. also get rid of the bloody useless Lords and introduce a pubic jury service so if the public don't like anything the Gov come up with then it doesn't get passed.
The army are training drivers as we speak to cover the strike if there is a need. The fuel will still be delivered, the lorry drivers can moan about pay and conditions, nothing changes and the government continues with the plan to put another 3p duty on in August.
Nice to see our struggling Armed Forces are covering our backs yet again....without moaning over pay, conditions, pensions etc.
Well done boys.
Jackie_Black
28-03-12, 07:43 PM
It's ok chaps, i tanked the car with diesel. So they won't strike. The garage was dead when i got there, but completely rammed when I came out after paying with people beeping their horns etc. I also saw some people filling jerry cans. Normally I wouldn't care but I have 2 weeks off from friday, so might fancy going out in the motor.
timwilky
28-03-12, 08:09 PM
during the last dispute the wife got a card to say she was a priority and we could go to the local filling station that would get deliveries. Charnock Richard Services. Cheeky gits charge motorway prices as they know we can only get from them. People going there from Manchester and liverpool.
Best though it was on the news that a local filling station has fuel. Went down there and the police were they saying emergency services/NHS only. I said great I hadn't the fuel to go home. He looked at my flashing fuel gauge and said get in the queue.
So van is full, car 2/3rds. Just been to my local ASDA is out of fuel with cones across the enterance, yet a tanker has just rolled in. Bike on fumes. So might just pop up later tonight to see if I can get some once the panickers have gone home
dizzyblonde
28-03-12, 08:09 PM
The army are training drivers as we speak to cover the strike if there is a need. The fuel will still be delivered, the lorry drivers can moan about pay and conditions, nothing changes and the government continues with the plan to put another 3p duty on in August.
Nice to see our struggling Armed Forces are covering our backs yet again....without moaning over pay, conditions, pensions etc.
Well done boys.
Actually.......the army have to go on an 8 day course before they can drive the trucks.......which they haven't started yet, which was apparently being discussed today.....when's this strike again?
Jackie_Black
28-03-12, 08:11 PM
There will be no strike as i bowed to the governments pressure. Shell hadn't even put their prices up!
Mr Speirs
28-03-12, 08:14 PM
If there is any action the Unions have to give 7 days notice. People filling up with fuel now to combat any shortages are idiots. In fact they are actually causing the shortages.
Jackie_Black
28-03-12, 08:25 PM
Like to think i've added to the chaos. :D
I just wish the entire country didn't drive for a week, everyone, businesses too just to show the government how crippling it is to tax fuel so heavily. They'd then understand why the economy is f**ked...or maybe they wouldn't.
My dad and I said this earlier today, if the majority of the country went on strike for 1 week they'd have to change something.
Sometimes I wish we were more like the French, when they go on strike they really go on strike, nothing moves.
DJFridge
28-03-12, 08:53 PM
Filled up both bikes in Sainsbury's on the way back from a nice evening ride. A bit of a queue but it's often that bad on a normal day anyway. Cars are both fairly full already.
The biggest worry, IMHO, is the lack of stock if the strike does happen. Last time the tanker drivers striked the country had around 14,000 filling stations. There are currently around 8,000. That's a whole lot less fuel to go around.
Bluefish
28-03-12, 08:55 PM
Well apparently the if it happens strike, is supposed to be about health and safety issues :rolleyes: but i bet wage increases are in there some where.
Mr Speirs
28-03-12, 08:57 PM
There's loads they are asking for.
Health and Safety
Better Training
Better pay and pensions
Changes to disiplinery procedures
And a few more I cant remember.
DJFridge
28-03-12, 09:00 PM
Well apparently the if it happens strike, is supposed to be about health and safety issues :rolleyes: but i bet wage increases are in there some where.
I have no wish to back to the bad old days of children up chimneys, miners getting buried in their hundreds and riveters accidentally getting sealed into ship's hulls, but those three words get used to justify all manner of stupidity
andrewsmith
28-03-12, 09:06 PM
Two magic words to start the panic?
For some NO DOLE
There's loads they are asking for.
Health and Safety
Better Training
Better pay and pensions
Changes to disiplinery procedures
And a few more I cant remember.
TBH after the last few incidents with Fuel company refineries the top two I'd agree with them striking
DJFridge
28-03-12, 09:23 PM
Two magic words to start the panic?
For some NO DOLE
TBH after the last few incidents with Fuel company refineries the top two I'd agree with them striking
Well, OK, instead of just being on strike, why don't they use the time to all go on the necessary health and safety courses?
Jackie_Black
28-03-12, 09:28 PM
Ah what's the worse that can happen, just stop the country for a week. I had no idea they earned £45k a year, that would be awesome money for driving a truck!
DJFridge
28-03-12, 09:40 PM
Ah what's the worse that can happen, just stop the country for a week. I had no idea they earned £45k a year, that would be awesome money for driving a truck!
How much? I might retrain
dizzyblonde
28-03-12, 09:45 PM
I presume they get a decent wedge (note wedge not wage) is because theres a bit thats a top up of danger money, on top of what would be a normal truckers wages.
Would you drive a truck with flamable liquid on, for the same as Mr white van man down the road?
Jackie_Black
28-03-12, 09:49 PM
I'd consider it instead of teaching kids all day! Just gan canny.
Urbanfireblade
28-03-12, 09:51 PM
Local radio stations reported queues at tesco petrol stations backing up onto main roads, and simillar elsewhere, so i went out at 5.20pm after i got home from work and drove to my local Esso on the main road and there were just 3 cars in there! Pulled in, filled up(i was genuinly empty btw), payed and was gone. It was 148.9p per litre of standard diesel, but thats normal round here.
I think this country need a strike, how can they justify the price of fuel when oil price is going down, yet fuel prices are going up? Easy money for the government.
Instead, why don't they save millions each week by getting the wasters taking the p*ss on the DOLE to go out and work, give them 6 weeks on the dole to find employment, if no job then they have to do 20hrs a week community service-litter picking, painting, etc to subsidise/earn their dole money.
You forget the reason so many are on dole mainly cause there isnt enough jobs to go round.
missyburd
28-03-12, 10:17 PM
I'm going to be seriously pished off if I go to fill up tomorrow (like I do every week) and there's none left at my local station...or find that it's conveniently gone up another 3p overnight to milk us dry thanks to our wonderful scaremongering government :x
Can we run bikes on veggie oil yet? And by that I clearly mean curvies ;)
metalangel
28-03-12, 10:23 PM
143.x in central Cardiff, less as you headed out. Filled up with 140.something in Caerfilthy.
They were showing on the news "£20 max purchase per customer" signs. Er, what? What do they do if you just fill up anyway? Do they call the cops, or just tell all the panicbuying crazies and let them tear you to shreds?
Bluefish
28-03-12, 10:35 PM
You forget the reason so many are on dole mainly cause there isnt enough jobs to go round.
Agree no jobs at all in the job center, I suspect you mean no jobs that pay more than claiming benefits.
I got home from work this morning and the Mrs was waiting on the drive asking if she could take my car as hers had no petrol in and she had left her purse at work.
So when I got up this afternoon I went to the local petrol station in her car and it was out of petrol. Drove 4 miles to the next station and there was a massive queue, had to wait 20 mins to full up. Heard the bloke in the shop chatting to someone else saying they had only just had a delivery in and there were around a dozen people who spent all day there (in the middle of nowhere) waiting for the delivery. These people obviously don't work and have nothing better to do with their day so why the hell do they need petrol anyway.
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Bluefish
28-03-12, 11:20 PM
If I was to fill the car up it would last at least 3 weeks, we have had it about 6 months now and it's never been full yet, £20 a week ish we use ^ those people are probobly filling up cos otherwise they won't be able to pop to the shop's.
Just been to Tesco and they are out as well, the people panic buying need to FOAD!
I get through a tank and a half a week, combination of small tank and Vtec addiction!
dizzyblonde
29-03-12, 07:11 AM
Government advice to the BBC..
People should keep their cars topped up. Fair people aren't filling completely as they are saving cash, but they should go the full hog and fill up when they can
WTF
I havent filled my car up for 18 months! Will the nesbit mp like to fill it for me? Hell be most upset by the hole in his pocket. I put in as much I can afford for the days I use it.......because I havent the money to go the whole hog as he put it.....
Frickin morons......now I have plenty of tin hats if everyone wants to join my club!!!_ two days its taken and the government has tripped itself up and exposed itself doing exactly what I said it was trying to do
The old Haz-mat / ADR course is 5 days long, and it was 80 RAF personnel getting trained.
in my unit alone we have over 10 personnel that can drive HGV fuel tankers, me being one.
So if I get asked I will drive as ordered... And it will be more experience for when I get out / Demob :0)
Agree no jobs at all in the job center, I suspect you mean no jobs that pay more than claiming benefits.
Possibly that is the case with a few but every job there is has 100 of applicants for so 99 out of them wont get one and there are rarely 100 of similar jobs. I work part time and my partner full time so we dont collect benefits at all. Also even those jobs that are on offer are looking for people with experience first which the new workers ie school leavers just dont have.
Owenski
29-03-12, 08:03 AM
Filled the car up on Tuesday £70 :O that'll last until we're back from Holiday as we're driving to the airport.
The bike is on fumes but thats getting dismantled so need the tank empty really.
markc123
29-03-12, 08:13 AM
Big queues here last night, which was less than ideal after 10 miles on the solid warning light.
So went to the garage near my house that's not on the major roads and no queue. How the place survives I do not know, mild fuel panic and the pumps are empty :-).
Massive queues last night wonderfully holding traffic up, this morning slightly busier than normal. Is is a British thing? Theres a queue! quick join it!!
Mr Speirs
29-03-12, 09:29 AM
I went and stayed at Alton Towers Hotel once. They were queuing to get served at the bar. The bar was about 30ft wide yet there was a single file queue about 10 people deep to the bar.
Specialone
29-03-12, 09:40 AM
Here is the killer...
They were saying on the news that most garages get deliveries about every 5 days, the unions have to give 7 days notice so it's hardly a shortage is it???
Keep calm FFS :rolleyes:
missyburd
29-03-12, 05:35 PM
Meh, filled up at the usual Morrisons, it's gone up a whole PENNY! lol. Over 50 cars queuing. I ended up sat with my arms folded and a shaking head as I watched a bloke filling up his jerry can then filling up his car...A tanker had turned up too looking thoroughly irritated :rolleyes: Just moronic!
shonadoll
29-03-12, 06:14 PM
I think it's a smart move by the government- start panic before the strike, zero support and anger at tanker strikers.
I filled up tonight, not bad queue, job done till I need to again.
Red Herring
29-03-12, 06:21 PM
And people are getting really tetchy to boot....
I went to fill up the bike this morning and when I got to the garage there was a queue out onto the road. I filtered past to the far side of the forecourt and waited for someone to finish filing their car, then put the bike just in behind their car whilst they went to pay and filled it up. Having put my £15 odd quid in I went to push the bike off the pump and this geezer came over shouting the odds accusing me of jumping the queue and who did I think I was etc etc. I pointed out that the driver of the car that was currently occupying the pump was still in the queue in the shop so it's not as if I've denied him or anybody else access to it but he then came out with "yeah, but there might not be any fuel left now when I get there". I suppose he did have a point, the couple of gallons I took might just make all the difference..... The cashier and I had a good laugh about it though.
Jackie_Black
29-03-12, 06:22 PM
To be honest it's quite hard to support any kind of strike action at the moment, the country is on its ****. I feel a bit guilty when we go out on strike over pensions. At least I have a job!
missyburd
29-03-12, 06:30 PM
And people are getting really tetchy to boot....
I went to fill up the bike this morning and when I got to the garage there was a queue out onto the road. I filtered past to the far side of the forecourt and waited for someone to finish filing their car, then put the bike just in behind their car whilst they went to pay and filled it up. Having put my £15 odd quid in I went to push the bike off the pump and this geezer came over shouting the odds accusing me of jumping the queue and who did I think I was etc etc. I pointed out that the driver of the car that was currently occupying the pump was still in the queue in the shop so it's not as if I've denied him or anybody else access to it but he then came out with "yeah, but there might not be any fuel left now when I get there". I suppose he did have a point, the couple of gallons I took might just make all the difference..... The cashier and I had a good laugh about it though.
I filtered past a load of folk today too, couldn't care less what they thought. It's not like we're putting £80's worth in. Prerogative of having a smaller vehicle! But then I think they weren't feeling the pressure so much at that particular moment seeing as a big tanker was waiting to transfer its load :rolleyes:
Big queues here last night, which was less than ideal after 10 miles on the solid warning light.
So went to the garage near my house that's not on the major roads and no queue.
this is what happened to me. Didn't REALLY need fuel, had about another 50 miles left but since there was no queue I caved in :(
markc123
29-03-12, 06:46 PM
Did anyone see the rules on petrol storage?
Only proper 5l or 10l cans, no more than 30l total
Not in house, garage shed or outside but within 6m of house
10l in the boot of a car might be illegal
So I guess the can in the cellar and the coke bottle full of BBQ lighting petrol (drained from carbs after lay up) probably constitutes a problem :-).
dizzyblonde
29-03-12, 07:01 PM
heres what winds me up, as someone said on a friends FB status
revenue just pocketed 32 million in excise duty this past couple of days , who are the mugs
And ...... theres the scam.....frikin barstewards, all they wanted was a bit of extra money to keep the UK PLC running!!
Joe Marcon
29-03-12, 08:55 PM
Seriously? nowhere else?
Yep everywheres empty in pontefract/castleford area
missyburd
29-03-12, 08:59 PM
Yep everywheres empty in pontefract/castleford area
All those inconsiderate guzzling toyo...sorry lambos :-dd
No petrol in colchester this morning .
And the light says "NOW".....
Bluefish
30-03-12, 09:23 AM
Customer told me this morn of an old guy who had just filled up and said to her, that will last me a year. what a nobber.
Paul the 6th
30-03-12, 01:08 PM
Customer told me this morn of an old guy who had just filled up and said to her, that will last me a year. what a nobber.
maybe he only does 400 miles a year?
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l96/Dec_012/eca443e9.jpg
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http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/549933_10150920212079148_668509147_12698262_663903 022_n.jpg
Oh, this did make me chuckle.
andrewsmith
30-03-12, 05:54 PM
Bravo Lenny!!!!
Bravo Lenny!!!!
That's not me by the way. Just some random pic I found on Facebook
andrewsmith
30-03-12, 07:02 PM
I know!
Just seen it and reposted it
maviczap
30-03-12, 07:05 PM
It would have been better if he'd written
'The end of the world is nigh' :p
Red Herring
30-03-12, 07:14 PM
And what did I hear on the news today, government called upon to issue fire safety advice after woman woman badly burnt whilst decanting petrol into a jug. And where was she doing it? Why in the kitchen of course right next to the gas cooker where she was also cooking dinner at the time! I mean, I know she's badly hurt but please!
My wife saw it posted on a forum of hers with the comment "Darwinism at work". I'm inclined to agree.
maviczap
30-03-12, 07:33 PM
And what did I hear on the news today, government called upon to issue fire safety advice after woman woman badly burnt whilst decanting petrol into a jug. And where was she doing it? Why in the kitchen of course right next to the gas cooker where she was also cooking dinner at the time! I mean, I know she's badly hurt but please!
My wife saw it posted on a forum of hers with the comment "Darwinism at work". I'm inclined to agree.
Yep feel sorry for her, but jeez
Sometimes I feel that news reporters are talking down to me, the BBC especially, as they treat me like I'm some kind of thicko.
But with examples like this accident, I can understand why.
Tomorrows headline news - petrol is highly inflammable do not use near naked flames
Tomorrows headline news - petrol is highly inflammable do not use near naked flames
And the day after "sewers burn as people throw away killer liquid"
andrewsmith
30-03-12, 07:59 PM
And the day after "sewers burn as people throw away killer liquid"
Day after that:
The media are a bunch of idiots that have caused most of the UK to Burn.
maviczap
30-03-12, 08:07 PM
My wife saw it posted on a forum of hers with the comment "Darwinism at work". I'm inclined to agree.
Its a shame that due to the cuts, the Government have scrapped the film unit that used to make all those public information films.
I can think of a few they could make :mad:
Titles such as:-
Charlie says ' eating fast food can make you fat'
'The dangers of petrol'
Well there a turn up for the books....
My RSM (My unit's God) just rang and has cancelled my Easter leave.
I was going for a weeks Holidays Biking in the Lake District......
Now I'm on a 5 day course, teaching me how to drive Civvy Fuel Tankers then 5 days notice to move.....
look's like this is a first strike against a strike that might not happen...
Tomorrows headline news - petrol is highly inflammable do not use near naked flames
But some people are inadequate at the English language and are incapable of knowing that inflammable doesn't mean not flammable.
Now where is that like button Venom :0)
Specialone
31-03-12, 12:06 AM
Well there a turn up for the books....
My RSM (My unit's God) just rang and has cancelled my Easter leave.
I was going for a weeks Holidays Biking in the Lake District......
Now I'm on a 5 day course, teaching me how to drive Civvy Fuel Tankers then 5 days notice to move.....
look's like this is a first strike against a strike that might not happen...
Well that sucks mate :(
Sucks Big Co3k ....
Cheers for ****ing up my family's Easter Break.... Cun7's
not in a good place at the moment. :0/
maviczap
31-03-12, 07:50 AM
But some people are inadequate at the English language and are incapable of knowing that inflammable doesn't mean not flammable.
Yes, just in case there are any BBC reporters reading this thread here's what they can read out word for word to the Darwin Brigade
Inflammable and flammable both mean “combustible.” Inflammable is the older by about 200 years. Flammable now has certain technical uses, particularly as a warning on vehicles carrying combustible materials, because of a belief that some might interpret the intensive prefix in- of inflammable as a negative prefix and thus think the word means “noncombustible.” Inflammable is the word more usually used in nontechnical and figurative contexts:
maviczap
31-03-12, 07:53 AM
Sucks Big Co3k ....
Cheers for ****ing up my family's Easter Break.... Cun7's
not in a good place at the moment. :0/
Yes, but think of the moola you can make by just taking a diversion with the tanker.
Them things hold 40,000 litres when full.
Its going to be like Mad Max 2 or Waterworld when the strike kicks in.
That's shizzle for your leave Richie
Just been to Tesco, was unusually busy for 7.30 on a Saturday (although saying that I am not sure I have ever been there before at 7.30 on a Saturday)
Anyway, they have loads of signs up saying please only fill your car and not cans as well.
Guess what the pi1ck in front of me was doing?? Oh yer and he was about 70 as well so how long is the £80 he put in his X-Trail going to last him? Probably about 2 months! How much difference is the 8 litres he put in the jerry can going to make.
In an ideal world this post would be concluded with a youtube video of me covering said old git in the petrol from his jerry can and setting him on fire.
Red Herring
31-03-12, 08:38 AM
Maybe he wants to put the Jerry can in the back of the vehicle so that if when his tank runs dry in two months because for some completely random reason there isn't any fuel at the pumps he will just be able to get home and put the car away instead of running out at the side of the road?
How many people have posted on here in the last few days about how their fuel light was on/gauge in the red and how they were worried about making it home!
I agree people shouldn't be hoarding 100s of litres of fuel, but a get me home in the worst case scenario option seems reasonable enough.
Maybe he wants to put the Jerry can in the back of the vehicle so that if when his tank runs dry in two months because for some completely random reason there isn't any fuel at the pumps he will just be able to get home and put the car away instead of running out at the side of the road?
How many people have posted on here in the last few days about how their fuel light was on/gauge in the red and how they were worried about making it home!
I agree people shouldn't be hoarding 100s of litres of fuel, but a get me home in the worst case scenario option seems reasonable enough.
That is exactly the kind of thinking that has caused this "crisis"
I bet he is the same idiot who buys 15 loaves of bread and 50 pints of milk as soon as snow is forecast.
If everyone just bought what they needed there would be no problem.
But some people are inadequate at the English language and are incapable of knowing that inflammable doesn't mean not flammable.
That explains it, if it's inflammable you need to decant by a heat source to ensure that it doesn't not burst into flames :scratch:
Paul the 6th
31-03-12, 10:08 AM
I bet he is the same idiot who buys 15 loaves of bread and 50 pints of milk as soon as snow is forecast.
If everyone just bought what they needed there would be no problem.
One step ahead of the game mate, I bought a cow & breadmaker at the start of winter. Except the cow got moomonia & the breadmaker had an affair with my missus.
maviczap
31-03-12, 11:01 AM
Does she have a bun in the oven?
I heard she had a baguette in the pantry
maviczap
31-03-12, 12:21 PM
Or did her puff pastry get a sausage stuffing :wink:
Red Herring
31-03-12, 08:04 PM
These politicians really make me sick sometimes. Do they think we are complete idiots or are they really so short of sensible things to say and do that they have to behave like complete morons. For example some comments following this woman setting fire to herself:
"Karl Turner, MP for Hull East, said: "If this lady has suffered these terrible injuries because she was following the advice handed out by Francis Maude then I sincerely believe he must resign. This woman has suffered life-changing injuries."
Labour peer Lord Harris — former chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority — said: "This woman was following advice — and ends up with 40 per cent burns. Disgraceful."
And what was this actual advice?
Maude gave his advice hoping to counter a threatened strike by tanker drivers. He told motorists: "A bit of fuel in a jerry can in the garage is a sensible precaution."
So how does advising people that it would be sensible to keep some fuel in a jerry can suddenly make you responsible for someone pouring it into an open jug in their kitchen next to an open flame...?
And the best bit, why was she doing it?
Diane, who lives in a £500,000 semi in York, had been decanting the petrol for her teenage daughter Grace, who feared her car was about to run out.
Two hours before the horror, Grace wrote online: "I'm gonna be f***** if the petrol stations in York close cos I have zero money to top up & I'm already flashing."
So how exactly does the petrol station being open or closed give her the money to buy some fuel?
punyXpress
01-04-12, 09:33 AM
http://uk.mg40.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f971329%5fAKxTfbwAAABxT3dSqA3BqTEu ztw&pid=2.14&fid=Inbox&inline=1&appid=YahooMailNeo
The reality of it all!
Paul the 6th
01-04-12, 09:42 AM
Has someone reported that they live in a £500k semi? I live in acomb & although it has it's nice bits, about 60% of it is like Jeremy Kyle's holding area..
5 of us went to cinema last night, out friend mel brought us home & her fuel light was on; we had to try 4 different petrol stations all with In 2 miles of eachother before we found any diesel. Grim.
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