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[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/army-to-provide-surly-24%11hour-garage-service-201203265055/ ]panic indeed :D[/url]
Now, my tank really is empty, but I might leave it a week or two so as not to appear paniky.......
DrP
Meh.
I remember last time there was a shortage. The M1 was a bit more empty of traffic, but that was all.
Plus ca change.
Is there an internet shortage or something, the link wont load!
Thanks for the reminder,
Best rush out an join the queue, make sure I get my £10 worth or whatever the ration is this time....
Minor hic cup with plan ...
Tank is almost full after payday fill up last week ....
Anyone got a can they can lend me 😉
Solution:
[b]Minimum[/b] charge of £40 at the pumps. This would stop ****wits from driving to queue for an hour with their engines running to put another £10 worth of fuel in to keep their tanks full.
Even if they do this, still charge them £40.
My car only takes about £35 even when the petrol light comes on! (although the way prices are rising that may not be the case for much longer...)
Minimum charge of £40 sounds OK, but let's hope they don't enforce a maximum. £125 to fill up last time 😥
Minimum charge of £40 at the pumps.
My Smart won't take £40 yet, I'll have to wait for the price to go up some more. 😕
Ah the smugness of having an LPG fuelled car, and a Calor Gas centre where it's less than half the price of unleaded just round the corner from me! 😀
Better fill the cars up and then cycle everywhere so I can drive about in a month.
Filled up on the way home as I was nearly empty. Over £90!! Blimey!
Just filled up as I would normally. I'd say the garage was quieter than usual..
Just filled up in prep for a spin to the Gorms tomorrow. No signs of panic.....
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Not News.
Minimum charge of £40 at the pumps
The motorcyclists will love that.
I'm looking forward too riding past the enormous queues again. 😀
mboy - Member
Ah the smugness of having an LPG fuelled car, and a Calor Gas centre where it's less than half the price of unleaded just round the corner from me!
Its great ain't it!!!
uselesshippy - Member
I'm looking forward too riding past the enormous queues again.POSTED 5 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST
Me too 😀
16 cars getting fuel or waiting at 6 pumps today, and then every petrol station i went past large queues, all within a 15 mile radius of Stanlow, one of the bigest refineries in the uk.
and why does every old person need to fill their tank to the top, with the speed of an snail crossing a quiet road, then slowly wander into the shop and pay.
Surely a tenner would do, and you have a FREE bus pass as well.
costs me £65ish at today's prices. lasts a week. I did notice one forecourt with more than the usual number of cars queueing, but they weren't out onto the road yet.
if push comes to shove, and we do run out, I'll just have to work from home. shame.
Very busy at my local station tonight. Begin the flashbacks to 2000.
Quite!Minimum charge of £40 at the pumpsThe motorcyclists will love that.
£30 lasts me about 2 weeks in the car and the bike takes about £20 if it's on reserve. If it comes down to it I would still get fuel as apparently I'm an 'essential worker' so see no reason why I should needlessly have a full tank and use even more fuel 😉
No signs of panic.....
thats because you're at the wrong end of britain to witness such things druidh - those sorts of selfish hysterics are a bit [whispers] southy [/whispers]
If people didn't "panic buy" there wouldn't be such a shortage ... just another item on my 'things that show how stupid people really are' list 😉
Phew I'm ok. My C1 takes £42 to fill 😀
Its always 'safety' mentioned in their strike plans. Is this an attempt to 'not' alienate the public to their members?
I was pleased to see the usual idiotic statements across the front of the big papers this morning. PANIC PANIC PANIC!
I for one will be very annoyed if this means queues in the shower room at work as *too many* people decide to cycle into work.
thats because you're at the wrong end of britain to witness such things druidh - those sorts of selfish hysterics are a bit [whispers] southy [/whispers]
I expect the south will just fritter away their petrol, same as they've already done with their water.
Careless. Very careless. And selfish.
😈
Why can't they strike this week while the sun is out FFS
last time this happened up in Scotland was when Grangemouth folks went out on strike. I had a john cooper works minin cooper s at the time.
filled it up on the thursday and went for a seriously long blast all weekend as the roads were dead was great fun!!
anyway you are on a bike forum so logically you cycle so whats the problem??
quiet at every petrol station I passed this morning.
No panicking here in the south west. Plenty of water too.
Mind you, if there was reported to be a cider shortage, it would be ****** anarchy.
imagine the outrage if tanker drivers were public sector workers...
Why are people panic buying now there's no strike date yet is there?
bloody queuing at Morrisons this morning. Doesnt help that idiotpanic coincides with their 6p off /litre deal on at the moment. I went in, running on vapours, for the weekly shop, and there's even some 'tard filling jerry cans.
Is it the easter weekend they're thinking of striking? If so I'll be joining the panic driven* mob in order to get enough fuel to get me & caravan up to Newcastleton for the UK12/24.
I may even be a 'tard with a jerry can 🙂
*Pun very much intended
Any news on when the fat blokes are due to wobble their bellies slowly down the motorways and A roads of our fair country yet?
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Doesn't bother me. In this weather, I'm riding in every day 😀
A41 this morning from the birkenhead unnel, both fuel stations queuing onto the road,10 minutes wait, then the pump lady said they where running out of fuel due to panic buying.more panic buying as peeps rang their mates to tell them
Morrisons and shell last night almost anarchy,as the peeps queued to get fuel.
Just how hard can it be to couple up a pipe from a tanker to a tank, and twiddle a wheel gravity does the rest.
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the company's drivers earned on average £45,000 a year.
Flippin'eck
I'm looking forward too riding past the enormous queues again.
Hope Royal Mail get through with my bar end plugs otherwise it'll be a dangerous weekend ride for me! 😉
Petrol sold out in Macclesfield everywhere tonight, bloody ridiculous
Just filled my tank and not one hint of any queuing. Can't beat red diesel off the local farmer, price was quite reasonable too 😀
Currently the only garage here sold out last night, if they've got none this am then no work for me today.
If it comes down to it I can just stick a few litres of veg oil in my old smoker*. 8)
*To clarify, that's my car. Sounded a bit wrong when I read it back.
It's not petrol you should be concerned about, but food. It all has to be delivered...
I just got back from the US where, apparently "gas" prices are "rocketing". 60p a litre. Bastards. A lot of them are driving Priuses (Priuss?) (Priusi?) now!
it's the electricity companies that you should all be really scared of - if you're into fear
Oil-fired generation isn't that significant when it comes to UK energy production.
Rather than allow 80 RAF tanker drivers to be retrained as scabs (hoping to compensate for 1000 drivers), Cameron would do better to see this dispute, which is about working conditions and health and safety rather than pay, sorted through arbitration. Instead I fear that heady on his latest table thumping victories he'll want to see some union bashing, regardless of the consequences.
Despite the fact that there probably wouldn't be a fuel shortage if stupid people didn't all 'panic' and go out brimming their tanks, have any strike dates actually been announced yet?
The strike vote also doesn't sound conclusive - only 5 of the 7 refineries (71.4%) were involved in the ballot, turnout was only 69%, 77.7% voted yes ... what's 77.7% of 69% of 71.4% ? ... only about 38% I think ...
I currently have about 50 miles worth of petrol left in the tank. I'll need to use 15-20 miles on Saturday (could half this is absolutely necessary).
I'm fortunate in that I don't depend on my car - can easily cycle to work, 15 minute walk to the shops, 10 minute walk for the 'school run' ... if it comes down to it, the only thing that we'd have to forego is visiting my parents ...
How do you think the food gets to your local shops?
does it walk there?
It astounds me that some people dream through life, expecting most services to be there and uninterrupted when they need them. They will learn the hard way.
Man alive, I wasn't going to bother typing in every possible permutation of events ... [i]if[/i] things even get that bad
"Half a tank is an empty tank"
This is the Daily Wail but it's food for thought...
It astounds me that some people dream through life, expecting most services to be there and uninterrupted when they need them. They will learn the hard way.
Quite. The state some people get into when the CRC's website is unavailable for 3 minutes, or a parcel's a day later than expected. And these aren't even essential services.
I think we all take everything for granted. Water, gas, electric, petrol, food, broadband.
I did wonder whether, every time I take a shower or turn on a light, whether I should spend 10 minutes in quiet contemplation about how fortunate I am. But there wasn't enough time in the day for this.
So instead, I'll just stamp my feet like a grumpy child when my broadband goes down for 15 seconds.
I think we all take everything for granted. Water, gas, electric, petrol, food, broadband
Speak for yourself. I live in East Lancs 😉
The Govt 'advice' was a bit, well, stupid
Downing Street has dismissed claims it caused "panic" over the threatened fuel strike by urging motorists to make "contingency plans" such as filling up.
So the contingency plan for [i]maybe[/i] not being able to buy some petrol is to, er, buy some petrol.
Well done. Excellent suggestion.
But its not actually a [i]contingency[/i] plan though is it ... really, it's preparing for the worst.
An actual contingency plan would suggest what to do if Plan A (being able to buy petrol) fails.
As a full tank lasts me over a month, this sort of thing doesn't bother me much. On the other hand, if people start panic-buying food...best get the veg planted ASAP.
The problem is that the general public is made up of morons. As is the government.
I say burn them all.
The problem is that the general public is made up of morons. As is the government.I say burn them all.
Don't waste any petrol whilst you are doing it though..
If it's like the 2000 strikes, I'll probably get a special "let this person buy petrol" letter. Who want to make a starting bid for it? Shall we say £100 to begin bidding?
😉
Unfortunately my boss knows I can perfectly easily get to work by bike, otherwise I'd be hoping for a fuel drought so I could have some time off work 🙂 ... plus I'd only need to cycle to work once to get my laptop, then VPN from home. Damn technology!
Call-me-Dave has just been on the radio and in an even more patronising voice than usual said that everyone should fill their tanks up 'as a sensible precaution'
Well done you over-educated ****-wit
No car and as the works car that I am in today has enough to get me home I can't say I'm bothered. Obviously will be if it drags on long enough to start food shortages (!?!).
That'll be the next one "Tesco can't get any bread/milk/Dorritos cos of fuel strike, panic buy at super market"!
Call-me-Dave has just been on the radio and in an even more patronising voice than usual said that everyone should fill their tanks up 'as a sensible precaution'Well done you over-educated ****-wit
Hump the price up and then create a false demand. Seems pretty clever to me.
Lunchtime news: "don't panic buy, there's no need.Then, it would seem sensible to fuel up if you get the opportunity. And maybe have a jerry can in the garage ready, just in case."
Francis Maude, you are a genius!
how will a jerry can help? delaying the problem by what? 10 litres. some ****ing use!
how will a jerry can help? delaying the problem by what? 10 litres. some **** use!
Good thinking, best make it a few jerry cans, but no panicking please.
the government are deliberately making this much worse than it is for their own ends,
OH MY GOD. A few fat blokes are going to not drive about for a day or two. PANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!!!!!! Lets all run around like headless chickens, fill up cans of flammable material, then keep them indoors when the temperature is about to hit 24 degrees.
What could conceivably go wrong? Dear god! I despair for this country some times 🙄
now if i put 8 jerry cans in the back of the van...
or maybe i could fill the back of the van with them?
i reckon i could get close to 100 in there.
could make my own mini tanker, then roll round dring the fuelocalypse selling it on at £4.50 a litre.
any takers? i'll deliver for that.
Does all this mean there will be fewer vehicles for me to draft on my rides into work & back?
POTD?The problem is that the general public is made up of morons. As is the government.
Indeed Donk. Occasionally someone makes a statement on here its impossible to dispute
the government are deliberately making this much worse than it is for their own ends
^^^^this
Cameron would do better to see this dispute, which is about working conditions and health and safety rather than pay, sorted through arbitration
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure it is.
Strike would be more than a day or two. It would be 4 days, back to work for 2, then another 4 days.
Highly unlikely a strike will happen and 'panic buying' is causing issue at the moment. Fuel sales up 25% on average yesterday. No issues with restocking at the moment so no need to worry.
[i]Hump the price up and then create a false demand. Seems pretty clever to me.[/i]
What sense would that make? People buy fuel at some point, making them buy today makes no difference to them buying next week. They won't use any additional fuel.
Seems fairly canny to me.
1. Threaten strike
2. Create false demand
3. Sell loads more fuel
4. Get paid overtime for delivering said extra fuel
5. Roll around in wads of cash