Fuel queues...

[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by suicidesam

Al this fuel shortage cr@p is doing my head in... was forced to use my car for a few days this week since all the local garages has been run dry Sun/Monday. There is plenty fuel to go round between the storage at Kinneil, and the Finnart terminal on Kitty's wibbly wobbly road. (East and west coast are linked by pipeline) As for shutting the plant down.. They are just making a big deal out of it to make the strike look bad. Every year they have various "Shutdowns" for repair work.. usually 2-3 weeks for the Cracker unit that makes the fuel, nobody knows anything about them though till they fire the plant up and the sky turns orange again.
Glad i dont work there anymore

Now the plant is shut down & presumably cooling, will they bring forward any maintenance to avoid later shutdowns?

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Now the plant is shut down & presumably cooling, will they bring forward any maintenance to avoid later shutdowns?

Nope.. Coz they are all out on strike, No lazy sod's in the control rooms.. no permits to go set fire to things. (not that i enjoyed fire tenders appearing where i was welding)
Takes months to organise all the new pipework and other stuff that gets installed, 90% of all the shutdown work is carried out by us "subbies". Worked in BP/Innovene for 9 years with a contract pipework company, and used to love getting hired out to the BP's own workshop.. was like being on holiday working for them!

[Lissa]

Well, we had no problem getting fuel yesterday anywhere. No big queues, no panic. Maybe most people are just being sensible this time and not falling for media hysteria.

I saw massive queues at Tesco`s in Llandudno Junction , and thought "blow that I`ll fill up elsewhere" ..... that`s when I realised why the queues were so bad , I went to Esso only to find it had been knocked down this week ................... DOH!!!!!

petrol stations used to be everywhere but i know for sure by me they seem to be dwindling away, anyone know how much a garage makes on a litre of fuel? i know most of its tax

[timwilky]

One full tank (now £70) gets me to work twice.

Good job I ain't going. But the robbing gits have been hiking up the prices whenever Asda has run out.

£10 gets me to work 4 times tis only 60miles per week tho.

ANy idea why diesel cost so much more than petrol?

cus our government are thieving robbing *******s.

So who's pocketing the extra? The thieving git in number 10 or the thieving oil companies?