i can remember getting nearly 5gallons for a £1 and it was in proportion to income, and it was put in for you by an attendant who checked oil and water tyres and wipe windscreen, you just sat in your car and passed money out of window lol. you never had to worry about soaring costs . ah good old days eh.
Mr Osbourne is a happy chappy though. I believe as of yesterday he has raised more than 56 million in tax above and beyond what they normally get. That is only within the last few days.
Makes you sick.
Not really. Now people won't be buying as much fuel for a while as they have full tanks/jerry cans to use up so in the long run no more fuel will be sold than would have been. Possibly even less in fact as some people would have been reducing car use so as to conserve what they had.
Mr Osbourne is a happy chappy though. I believe as of yesterday he has raised more than 56 million in tax above and beyond what they normally get. That is only within the last few days.
Makes you sick.
Not really. Now people won't be buying as much fuel for a while as they have full tanks/jerry cans to use up so in the long run no more fuel will be sold than would have been. Possibly even less in fact as some people would have been reducing car use so as to conserve what they had.
If I can get 56 Million today, then tomorrow I will get a hell of a lot of interest on it while it is in my bank account. Same applies to Government irrespective of what happens tomorrow. Just to get back on topic, it is mainly the RAF and not the army who would be delivering fuel if there was a strike. I just hope they don't put Avgas/tag in the unleaded pumps.
Surprisingly (well not really as we all know what the government & media are like when it somes to sensationalisation), it transpires that tanker drivers aren't on £45k a year, not all of them anyway. This is a copy of a payslip from a fuel tanker driver. I'm no Carol Vorderman but even I can work out that this doesn't amount to £45k I make it just over £27k a year, just over £37k with the same amount of overtime per month.
Still a decent wage though, I must admit.
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Why don't you try and get the army's pay up instead of trying to bring another working mans pay down, a lot of comments on here based on envy and nothing else. I wish the army lads were on treble what their on but its still not an acceptable rate for getting blown up, no amount of money is.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
Why don't you try and get the army's pay up instead of trying to bring another working mans pay down, a lot of comments on here based on envy and nothing else. I wish the army lads were on treble what their on but its still not an acceptable rate for getting blown up, no amount of money is.
I agree totally, the only question is what amount IS acceptable for the risks that they take ?
For a lot of guys now they seem to see the Army as a place to be trained for a trade that they'll use later in life. Travel the world now, get the pay later with no student debts hanging around their shoulders.
A friend of mine returned from Helmand Province on Friday, he put it quite simply:
UK Tanker Drivers, up and down the M6/M62 - £45k p/a
Army Fuel Driver, on mine strewn rebel housing, mountain tracks £17k p/a
Remind me, which ones were striking over safety?
How much do you earn a year? I bet it's more than £17,000. Just for fiddling with a few computers?
How much I earn is completely irrelevant to the situation we are discussing, not entirely sure how you went down that route, I was defending the Army guys and you decide to attack me for it, as you agree with me ???
There is no rate of pay that is sufficient for costing someone their life or welfare. Its when some contributors give the impression that when someone is in harms way a higher rate of pay would make it more acceptable. I would like to see the armed services pay improved, not that I think it would be more acceptable to be blown up but to give them a better standard of living. It annoys me when comparisons are made to other sections of workers when people give the impression that they think are on to much and shouldn't try to improve their pay and conditions, If they were on that salary or offered a pay rise to take them up to 45K, I doubt very much anyone would turn it down, if they did I suggest they book themselves in to a care home.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
Just for the sake of the discussion - How much do you need to be on before you are satisfied enough to not hold the rest of the country to ransom? That's what the miners did every year and their job was definitely dangerous but it doesn't make that an excuse to cause everyon else misery. Myself, if I wanted more money I should've gone for promotion but I was happpier just being happy, book me in to that care home bert, I don't do envy I'm afraid.
I recall that during a previous threat of fuel supply disruption, someone was fined for keeping a wheelie bin full of petrol in his house !! Yes, a wheelie bin full ! I presume no one in the house smoked.
I recall that was a taxi driver in Sheffield. He had numerous wheelie bins full. They all leaked. The roads were closed for a couple of days
I make it just over £27k a year, just over £37k with the same amount of overtime per month.
