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No panic here in manchester again. Im thinking of bringing a load of jerry cans full back with me later and set up stall selling it for £20 a litre to all the plebs.
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 king st blocked and liscard rd blocked due to knobends queuing for gas!
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I think the fact that the government, using our British Army to make fuel deliveries is a wake up call to the consumer on how lucrative fuel production is- if we didn't know already. How about using our soldiers to help build an infrastructue, repair roads & derelict homes for the thousands of homeless & people struggling to get on the housing market. NO NO NO. The government want to make money, the easy way. We pay around 70-75% tax per litre (about 105p) If we paid this on our other everyday items, this government would be ousted- how do we let them get away with it whilst wasting billions on the banks then cry poverty (the amount they spent on the banks could have given each household a 1 off £35,000 payment to spend our way out of recession but decided to throw it into a bottomless pit)... Back to the fuel debate...it's a huge money fiddle, does anyone remember diesel being cheaper than petrol at the pump, well the government hiked up tax on that when they realised you get more MPG from diesel & that most companies that travel the roads of the u.k use a diesel engine & as for LPG, thats more than doubled in price since it's introduction as a cheap alternative!
75% TAX!!!! Come-on people. No-one likes a con-man. how about fook off, like people who do the job need to be mending roads and doing derilict houses up,
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my mate works in petrol station, in heswall, says its manic, cant believe how fooking stupid people are, god help us if the shit really hit the fan
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Its just ridiculous, and just goes to show how dependent society is on oil, especially as we are a non-producer.
If this is what its like when strikes haven't even happened yet, I wonder what it will be like when the worlds oil reserves soon run out?
The words 'bedlam' and 'anarchy' comes to mind We are still producing oil, but our North Sea fields have peaked so we have to import ever more year-on-year. The US Dept. of Energy specualted that the world may have peaked in 2006. This may not be the case, but peak oil can't be too many years away. When you factor in ever rising global population and demand, then we really could be fooked!
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i agree im a community carer an had to drive to ellesmere port for fuel panick buying is pathetic an as u say makes it harder for others
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I think the fact that the government, using our British Army to make fuel deliveries is a wake up call to the consumer on how lucrative fuel production is- if we didn't know already. How about using our soldiers to help build an infrastructue, repair roads & derelict homes for the thousands of homeless & people struggling to get on the housing market. NO NO NO. The government want to make money, the easy way. We pay around 70-75% tax per litre (about 105p) If we paid this on our other everyday items, this government would be ousted- how do we let them get away with it whilst wasting billions on the banks then cry poverty (the amount they spent on the banks could have given each household a 1 off £35,000 payment to spend our way out of recession but decided to throw it into a bottomless pit)... Back to the fuel debate...it's a huge money fiddle, does anyone remember diesel being cheaper than petrol at the pump, well the government hiked up tax on that when they realised you get more MPG from diesel & that most companies that travel the roads of the u.k use a diesel engine & as for LPG, thats more than doubled in price since it's introduction as a cheap alternative!
75% TAX!!!! Come-on people. No-one likes a con-man. how about fook off, like people who do the job need to be mending roads and doing derilict houses up, dont think hes saying that to be honest dave. as soon as there is a crisis that will cost the govt millions in tax then they get the soldiers to bail them out by driving tankers. they wouldnt get the soldiers in to mend our roads and fix up derelict houses cos it is of no value to them only a cost.
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"I think the fact that the government, using our British Army to make fuel deliveries is a wake up call to the consumer on how lucrative fuel production is- if we didn't know already. How about using our soldiers to help build an infrastructue, repair roads & derelict homes for the thousands of homeless & people struggling to get on the housing market."
oh i think he is, this is getting printed out and put in the mess, weather it is lucrative or not we seen a snippit of whats happening at the moment at petrol stations, imagine what would happen if the strike goes ahead and we never used the armed forces, because it wont just be the army driving
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We are still producing oil, but our North Sea fields have peaked so we have to import ever more year-on-year. I thought the north sea fields was mainly just gas now, didnt realize there was still oil to be had there.
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If you want to fix up old houses, fix roads etc. you stay in civvy street, you don't join up. The tanker driving bit is a proper national requirement to stop the whole shebang coming to a standstill and dave is right, it won't only be army it'll be crab fats and stokers as well, maybe the odd booty or two as well. Calm down, calm down, it'll get sorted one way or the other.
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thank fook for that one of our ministers has just said on television there is no crisis ,now just hope all the knobs in the queue have seen it and realised what tossers they really are
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Just seen somebody get really emotional at the petrol station. They just started filling up.
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Just a quick update on the stations I've passed in the last 20mins
Shell Borough Rd - Has everything but Diesel was gurgling a bit as I filled up so may be getting low
Esso Green Lane - Now re-opened for Unleaded but Diesel pumps have Out Of Order on them
Shell Cammell Lairds - Seems to have Unleaded but Diesel pumps are Out Of Order
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hi i would like to say people need to think instead of panic buyin my father is a taxi driver and as be struggling to fill is car because of stupid people panic buying that is my dad livly hood i also use my motorbike for work and i have been unable to get pertol since monday night i finally got unleaded petrol tonight at 8oclock this evening at shell borough rd i was waiting to pull into the garage and a car nearly ramed the rear of my mototbike and started beeping for me to move when i was in the queue to fill my motorbike as i had no fuel and needed fuel. For one i am not panic buying and for 2 i have waited 3 days to fill my motorbike it is absoultly bang out of order people need to stop panic buying it is causing alot of problems for the rest of the people in the wirral who use there cars as the livlyhood such as taxi drivers,people with business's people need to think before going stupid i seen a lady yesterday at a garage filling her car with 3 pound when she has a full tank of petrol it is greed and it needs to stop i am not causing a agrument i am speaking the truth i think police should start patrolling the garages because the panic buyin is turnning really nasty
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I think I understand what you are saying.
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