PANIC buying PANIC, PANIC!!!!!! (merged)
09 September 2005, 01:27 PM
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PANIC buying PANIC, PANIC!!!!!!
Right??
Who's going to start fighting for petrol this weekend??
The whole country is going to go mental if it's announced on the news that blockades are planned!!!
Pete
Who's going to start fighting for petrol this weekend??
The whole country is going to go mental if it's announced on the news that blockades are planned!!!
Pete
09 September 2005, 01:35 PM
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I just wont use the scoob if it gets silly, dont really need it to get by. me mum works in a petrol station so i can avoid all the queues and get straight to the front if i need to 
09 September 2005, 01:40 PM
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I have filled all three cars, filled the deep freeze with bread and milk and butter and shelves have multiple four packs of heinz beans and spaghetti.
Oh and two jerry cans of fuel.
I live 1.5 miles from work, so there is no way in hell I'm walking or taking a bike or sharing a bus with commoners
So I guess its a case of i'm alright jack/pete/tony.
Oh and two jerry cans of fuel.
I live 1.5 miles from work, so there is no way in hell I'm walking or taking a bike or sharing a bus with commoners
So I guess its a case of i'm alright jack/pete/tony.
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09 September 2005, 01:44 PM
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Its not your employers fault you can't get to work. If you choose to live miles from public transport and drive a gas guzzling leviathan that your call.
I can see a few P45's being issued to the sluvenly masses who didn't heed pete's warning
I can see a few P45's being issued to the sluvenly masses who didn't heed pete's warning
09 September 2005, 01:44 PM
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My misses wants me to drive half way across the country this weekend so the sudden absence of fuel would suit me fine!
Plus at a decent walking pace my work is only 25 mins anyway.
Plus at a decent walking pace my work is only 25 mins anyway.
09 September 2005, 01:56 PM
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If it gets bad I will just ride to and from work on my MTB. Less cars on the road the better, less chance of getting knocked of by a dick who does not look where they are going. But saying that there will be less cars to kick the wing mirrors off..........bugger
09 September 2005, 11:27 PM
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Anyone seen any queues building??
Nowt will happen on Wednesday will it??
All bloody talk .......................... as usual!!
Pete
Nowt will happen on Wednesday will it??
All bloody talk .......................... as usual!!
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10 September 2005, 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Fabioso
I filled up 2day, people I know are all filling up now...........its only a matter of time.....and it will be a self fulfuelling prophecy.........
10 September 2005, 02:22 AM
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Very good article on the bbc website about the prospects of protests ........
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4224444.stm
"So can we expect blocked roads, picketed refineries, soaring prices and empty pumps?
Mr Handley believes not. He is sceptical of Mr Spence's tactics of announcing his planned protest.
"The reason why it was successful in 2000 is because no-one knew it was going to happen. Something needs to be done, but it has to be done discreetly."
Rhys Park, whose organisation briefly joined with the People's Fuel Lobby in 2001, is also dubious.
"As for doing something on the scale of the 2000 protest, I wouldn't have thought that would happen," he says.
Neither Mr Park nor Mr Handley holds out much hope of forging an alliance like that of five years ago. Although the groups remain united in their belief petrol prices are too high, it appears they are united by little else. "
The discreet methods Mr Handley talks about are the fact that the farmers and Road Hauliers are lobbying government directly for an essential user rebate. So they will get cheaper fuel for themselves thereby increasing their profits, but the rest of the general public will still have the usual high prices. The fuel lobby are threatening protests on behalf of the public but they are really in it for themselves. If the government tomorrow offered the farmers and hauliers this essential user rebate, you wouldn't hear a peep out of them about protests and high fuel prices.
There will never be a cut in fuel duty in this country, ever. The essential user rebate could very well happen. But will that help you fill up your scooby.......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4224444.stm
"So can we expect blocked roads, picketed refineries, soaring prices and empty pumps?
Mr Handley believes not. He is sceptical of Mr Spence's tactics of announcing his planned protest.
"The reason why it was successful in 2000 is because no-one knew it was going to happen. Something needs to be done, but it has to be done discreetly."
Rhys Park, whose organisation briefly joined with the People's Fuel Lobby in 2001, is also dubious.
"As for doing something on the scale of the 2000 protest, I wouldn't have thought that would happen," he says.
Neither Mr Park nor Mr Handley holds out much hope of forging an alliance like that of five years ago. Although the groups remain united in their belief petrol prices are too high, it appears they are united by little else. "
The discreet methods Mr Handley talks about are the fact that the farmers and Road Hauliers are lobbying government directly for an essential user rebate. So they will get cheaper fuel for themselves thereby increasing their profits, but the rest of the general public will still have the usual high prices. The fuel lobby are threatening protests on behalf of the public but they are really in it for themselves. If the government tomorrow offered the farmers and hauliers this essential user rebate, you wouldn't hear a peep out of them about protests and high fuel prices.
There will never be a cut in fuel duty in this country, ever. The essential user rebate could very well happen. But will that help you fill up your scooby.......
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10 September 2005, 10:00 AM
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I will be filling up today but thats cos i am running on fumes and have to go see my Mum in Southend for her 50th birthday. If i run out when (and if) there is a protest then whatever. Work from home...............or get the bus to work/car share, etc.
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10 September 2005, 11:24 AM
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I work about 4 miles from home, so if the worst comes to the worst, I can cycle to work. I should do it anyway to be honest. Save me some pennies, especially when petrol prices are so high!!
