Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:45 pm  

On the petrol "crisis" , I actually need to fill my car up now and I can't find any petrol station with any. Can you imagine this government with an actual crisis? If they had been in charge when the banks went t!t$ up we would all think we were in a Mad Max film by now.

[John_D]

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:06 pm  

DHM wrote:

Chemists were always the most dangerous people I knew, they basically spend their lives performing reactions that only just don't blow up or only just don't release fatal levels of toxic gas. I can't even imagine them having H&S committees.

I set my chemistry teachers arm on fire at school and he barely even made a comment.

There's a reason I ended up in software....

And one of my chemistry teachers taught us how to make contact explosives. Pure, innocent, pre-11/9 times.

[John_D]

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:12 pm  

Drivers can now spend 11 hours a day on the road rather than 9. Huzzah for us all...

Drivers can now spend 11 hours a day on the road rather than 9. Huzzah for us all...

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:18 pm  

DHM wrote:

On the petrol "crisis" , I actually need to fill my car up now and I can't find any petrol station with any.

Where are you based? Deliveries should be happening as normal and there is no problem with supply in most areas I've been through today (Warrington, Stockport, Bredbury, Bramhall).

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:18 pm  

John_D wrote:

A good number of people on the same chemistry degree course I did weren't aware of that with similar volatile, highly flammable substances. It was a chore being the student representative on the school H&S committee, having to relate the bleedin' obvious to people who should have known better.

About six months ago I actually ran out of petrol one sunday night (macho thing involving me stating "theres loads left when the light comes on") and I had to walk to a Morrisons petrol station, buy a petrol container etc etc - they won't let you bring the filled up petrol container into the garage to pay for it, you have to leave it outside, they were very strict about that and I heard another petrol station attendant say that to someone else just a couple of weeks ago - and thats just for one gallon of fuel, I'd imagine that its because the inside of the payment office is not a spark-free zone unlike the pump area outside and it would only take one idiot to kick a canister over in a queue to create all sorts of mayhem.

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:21 pm  

People are blaming Francis Maude because they want him to appear out of touch with ordinary people. The truth is, he didn't intend for people to keep petrol close to the house. When he said 'garage', he meant the one over at the far end of the stable block where, should a fire occur, the only likely damage would be a bit of scorching to the orangery.

See? Not so out of touch is he?

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:22 pm  

John_D wrote: Drivers can now spend 11 hours a day on the road rather than 9. Huzzah for us all... There they go getting more money again. It's hillarious that the strike action is being blamed on H&S issues including hours worked and then the Government deals with the panic buying it helped to create by extending said working hours. All the while the oil companies sit back rubbing their thighs as their sales & profits graphs go through the top of their screens.

John_D wrote: Drivers can now spend 11 hours a day on the road rather than 9. Huzzah for us all... There they go getting more money again. It's hillarious that the strike action is being blamed on H&S issues including hours worked and then the Government deals with the panic buying it helped to create by extending said working hours. All the while the oil companies sit back rubbing their thighs as their sales & profits graphs go through the top of their screens.

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:23 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Where are you based? Deliveries should be happening as normal and there is no problem with supply in most areas I've been through today (Warrington, Stockport, Bredbury, Bramhall).

I live in "Royal" Wootton Bassett. We have 3 petrol stations and they are all dry (one never has any petrol anyway).

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:25 pm  

Scooter Nik wrote:

...but without the government inspired fuel panic, her daughter wouldn't have been out of fuel, and she wouldn't have been decanting it in the first place.

It's the government's fault because they needed something to divert attention away from the 'granny tax' and 'dinners for donations'. Fanning the flames (sorry) of a non existent fuel shortage seems to be the best they could come up with.

Re: The Great Fuel Crisis of 2012 : Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:26 pm  

John_D wrote: Drivers can now spend 11 hours a day on the road rather than 9. Huzzah for us all... Isn't this what the dispute is about? Too many hours and too many deliveries leading to potentially exhausted tanker drivers with 25,000 litres of explosive liquid in tow?

John_D wrote: Drivers can now spend 11 hours a day on the road rather than 9. Huzzah for us all... Isn't this what the dispute is about? Too many hours and too many deliveries leading to potentially exhausted tanker drivers with 25,000 litres of explosive liquid in tow?