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Post by pantah on Sept 27, 2021 11:14:59 GMT
Luckily i converted to LPG so no queue or shortage por moi.
Smug mode off 🙂
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Sept 27, 2021 11:20:23 GMT
Luckily i moved to Europe so no queue or shortage por moi.
Smug mode off 🙂
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Post by beefus on Sept 27, 2021 11:34:26 GMT
Thing is, this was all started by someone leaking confidential info from BP about the shortage of HGV tanker drivers which was known but not, apparently, critical for fuel deliveries. Once the media got hold of it and spun it, people were panic buying unnecessarily. There was enough fuel to supply the normal habits of the population, but not enough when idiots started buying double or treble what they would normally buy.
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Post by beefus on Sept 27, 2021 11:35:36 GMT
Luckily i moved to Europe so no queue or shortage voor mij. Smug mode off  P.S. The Norn Irish seem to be more sensible, hasn’t happened there. |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Sept 27, 2021 11:45:37 GMT
Got my panic buying in early before the queues. The bike will need filling up soon though. I guess it's a great excuse for not going into the office.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Sept 27, 2021 12:09:27 GMT
Thing is, this was all started by someone leaking confidential info from BP about the shortage of HGV tanker drivers which was known but not, apparently, critical for fuel deliveries. Once the media got hold of it and spun it, people were panic buying unnecessarily. There was enough fuel to supply the normal habits of the population, but not enough when idiots started buying double or treble what they would normally buy. That sounds a bit like bullshit and propaganda to me. Sooner or later the shortfall in capacity to keep the garages within normal operating ranges was going to hit, so the reporting only brought forward the inevitable. Hopefully it has also brought forward a solution. My concern is that if a 'topping up' can take place, how long before that is emptied again? Pretty much everyone can run a necessity point to top up. Our daughter started a month long job today, somewhere completely unaccessable apart from by car. |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Sept 27, 2021 12:17:42 GMT
Hopefully it has also brought forward a solution. Short term visas? Treating migrant workers like a fucking commodity rather than as actual human people. Come to the UK for 3 months work doing a shite job in shite conditions for shite money and be fucking grateful you foreign cunts. All of it still smacks of a British superiority complex. The same 'they need us more than we need them' pish that got us into this fucking mess in the first place. |
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Sept 27, 2021 12:36:11 GMT
Hopefully it has also brought forward a solution. Short term visas? Treating migrant workers like a fucking commodity rather than as actual human people. Come to the UK for 3 months work doing a shite job in shite conditions for shite money and be fucking grateful you foreign cunts. All of it still smacks of a British superiority complex. The same 'they need us more than we need them' pish that got us into this fucking mess in the first place. I agree and I'm a little concerned at the fast tracking of HGV licenses too. Its a fucking joke. |
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Post by mekon on Sept 27, 2021 13:02:04 GMT
Let's face it, given the state of some of the mongs that drive a lorry it can't be that hard really can it?
Just add the lorry entitlement onto everyone's licenses and have a cbt like arrangement that includes what to do it attacked by The Lord Humungous.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Sept 27, 2021 13:17:51 GMT
Was petrol not around £1 a litre about 2 years ago? It's gone up by 40% in that time.
Taking back control.
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Post by mekon on Sept 27, 2021 13:23:28 GMT
Petrol has not been £1 for many a year. I remember even when it dipped from !.40 or whatever it only down a low of about 1.08 and that didn't last long.
Petrol prices are subject to more external cuntery than brexit.
Just looked it up. 2009 was last time prices average under £1 at 89p. Then the arab cunts did some cuntery and it went up to 1.10 the following year.
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Post by mekon on Sept 27, 2021 13:29:29 GMT
Oddly enough petrol is still cheaper in real terms that it was in 1983. Given all cars did FUCK ALL to the gallon motoring must have been expensive back in the 3l Granada days.
I guess more families only had one car back then and people worked nearer home and the kids walked to school etc. Also little Johnny didn't get a Corsa for his birthday as now even the dog has to have a car.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Sept 27, 2021 13:49:54 GMT
It was £1 a litre in 2016 and around £1.10 at the start of last year. Prices have risen massively since the Brexit vote however you look at it. The dip at the beginning of last year could possibly be attributed to the pandemic although I'm sure the first lockdown wasn't until later in the year but the general trend is for consistent price rises since 2016. www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time |
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Post by pantah on Sept 27, 2021 13:57:49 GMT
It was £1 a litre in 2016 and around £1.10 at the start of last year. Prices have risen massively since the Brexit vote however you look at it. The dip at the beginning of last year could possibly be attributed to the pandemic although I'm sure the first lockdown wasn't until later in the year but the general trend is for consistent price rises since 2016. www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-timeIf only there was a crazed right wing name changing slavering cunt to challenge that |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Sept 27, 2021 14:28:28 GMT
If only there was a crazed right wing name changing slavering cunt to challenge that Standing on the deck of the good ship Brexit, waving his blue passport in the air and singing Land of Hope and Glory as the water laps round his ankles and the lifeboats drift off towards the horizon. I'd like to think that all these cunts who bang on about how we won the war will be wallowing in nostalgia when rationing is reintroduced. |
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