[Archived] Fuel

[ABBEY]

my brother is away in edinburgh and glasgow.He says its mad at the moment with the refinary strike due up.He was near the refinary today and said some garages are out of fuel and theres a limit of £15 .He says he's seen a garage with the price @ £1.40 yes £1.40 a chuffing litre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will we see scenes like a few years back with chaos happening?

[Ozz]

Morrisons on Preston docks this morning, queueing back onto the main road, and same again tonight on the home.

Remember the last petrol chaos, nearly missed the Watford game at home-We were 2-0 up after ten mins, and remember singing to both the Watford fans..."What a waste of petrol!".

Watford won 4-3.

[ABBEY]

im on the sick at the moment following my op but i turned my phone on tonight and id 8!!! txts from the bigwigs warning us to keep the wagons full of deisal and to fill up at every oppurtunity.

[Neil Weaver]

Hadn't even crossed my mind it might be a 'shortage' (and maybe it wasn't) - was at the supermarket this evening (Leeds) and popped in for some petrol on the way out. Completely out of unleaded.

[cletus]

If there`s no fuel, i can`t get to work.......HAPPY DAYS!!!!

[Grabbi Graeme]

People panic at the first mention of fuel shortage, remember this place going on strike is in Scotland, we have a large refinery at Ellesmere Port which I would imagine serves the North West.

[SAS]

MY bikes probably still got another 2 weeks left in it yet I filled up last month

[Flopsy]

If people dont all rush to the filling stations and panic buy then theres about 10 weeks supply left. If people act like the retarted idiots they appear to be and rush out and fill their car up, the bath and the hot water system with petrol, then yes there will be shortages. the reason there was a problem a few years ago was because the fuel from all depots was cut off by the picket lines.

[blue phil]

If people act like the retarted idiots they appear to be

Retarted idiots .........?

I think we know the type , Flops ......

[stuwilky]

Bloody fuel shortages!

[American]

I blame the Christians....

[S15]

Why are all Britons like Lemmings?

[ABBEY]

interesting prices..outrageous

why cant wagons be allowed to use red fuel and help lower the overheads and wtf is 0.9p......con

[thenodrog]

interesting prices..outrageous

why cant wagons be allowed to use red fuel and help lower the overheads and wtf is 0.9p......con

My mate in the oil depot on Whalley Range does a roaring trade selling red diesel to local residents turning up to have 5 gallon drums filled. Odd really cos I've never ever seen any agricultural tractors in that neck of the woods.

[ABBEY]

just seen on sky news that anyone with a car over 7 years old will pay an extra £210 per year on tax!!!!!

when will it stop

[thenodrog]

I thought the interpretation was that the new tax / emissions rules are to be applied to cars UP TO 7 years old?

btw from that news item.... "Chancellor Alistair Darling said the changes would come into effect from next April, and raise an additional £1.2bn in revenue by March 2011"

There can be few finer examples of Freudian slips than that! Basically he's saying 'Sod the environment that is of little consequence, whats really important is that I've found another way to scam big money out of the population'.

Him and Brown really must be the reincarnation of King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham!

[grizfoot]

Classic example of cost-push inflation happening at the moment in the economy. Increased fuel prices means increased costs for firms and hence they hike their prices up and it's the consumers who ultimately lose out. Noticed bus fares have gone up 20p from the beginning of this week and even more distrubing is my discovery of an extra 10p slapped on the cost of a pasty. Bleak times indeed.

[thenodrog]

Classic example of cost-push inflation happening at the moment in the economy. Increased fuel prices means increased costs for firms and hence they hike their prices up and it's the consumers who ultimately lose out. Noticed bus fares have gone up 20p from the beginning of this week and even more distrubing is my discovery of an extra 10p slapped on the cost of a pasty. Bleak times indeed.

The times they are a changing....

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/times.html

[yoda]

I thought the interpretation was that the new tax / emissions rules are to be applied to cars UP TO 7 years old?

btw from that news item.... "Chancellor Alistair Darling said the changes would come into effect from next April, and raise an additional £1.2bn in revenue by March 2011"

There can be few finer examples of Freudian slips than that! Basically he's saying 'Sod the environment that is of little consequence, whats really important is that I've found another way to scam big money out of the population'.

Him and Brown really must be the reincarnation of King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham!

Spot on Theno,

If they were interested in the invironment they would legislate that cars etc could only be manufactured to comply with the speed limits they have set!

[Biddy]

But they are interested in the environment. It's fast becomming their biggest money spinner.

[ABBEY]

why has fuel not dropped now the strike is over

[SAS]

107.9 yesterday at asda, wtf

this time last year it was 87 ish

[ABBEY]

the old deva speed is whopping it was 122 i think the other day.

the asda is the cheapest around as well i think

[SAS]

of course it is

its asda price

[trueblue]

the old deva speed is whopping it was 122 i think the other day.

the asda is the cheapest around as well i think

And you get an extra 2p a litre off when you use an Asda credit card to pay for fuel