FlightMan

As a result of the Grangemouth refinery closure, the Forties pipeline which prives 33% of the UK oil output, is to close as well.

Full story here:

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Strike to close key oil pipeline

PeteBrant

Ban all petrol threads!

Don't add to the panic!

FlightMan

Maybe we should ban the news outlets from reporting this as well then.

PeteBrant

I wish we could!

FlightMan

Go and live in Zimbabwe then.

SiPie

Glad to see you lot will soon have some of the fun with the panic spreading ….

Clowns up here have been at it since the weekend

stilover

Because the Media never exaggerate a story to make a good headline do they?

People hear on the news that there will be a Petrol shortage, and the first thing they do is jump in the car and fill their tank to the brim even though they already had 3/4 of a tank left.

I tanked up yesterday purely because I'm going on Holiday next week, so need the car. Half the pumps at my local were empty.

No media coverage = no panic buying.
Doubt any of us would have noticed the difference

PeteBrant

Precisely.

If eveyone carried on as normal, there would be no ill effect whatsoever.

FlightMan

Maybe the media shouldn't report the inflation figures either? Maybe we wouldn't notice the increase in prices if the didn't? It's not the media that's to blame, its the public's attitude to the story.

bugeyeandy

We'll be ok FlightMan, the petrol station on the South perimeter road is supplied direct from the refinery by pipeline - never runs out

Geezer

I think it's both. The media exaggerate the story and create a feeling that the sheep public react to. They compliment each other perfectly

Symbiosis as it's finest

Geezer

FlightMan

That'll be the Esso refinery in Fawley, Southampton. Specifically Block 22.

Your point is?

Oh and it ran out when they closed it for 2 years back in '05.

stilover

What? You mean the made up inflation figure the Government calculate by deducting everything that effects our wallet? That inflation figure?

You're right, they shouldn't report on it. It's Bollox anyway.

Gear Head

iTrader: (2)

Do you really think we didn't know.

All you are doing is adding to the problem. What are we supposed to do with this info, rush out and panic buy?

r32

We dont want the media banned from reporting anything, to suggest they should be muzzled is just worrying, I agree they need to report in a more balanced none sensationalist way. But we need to retain freedom of the press, or else how would we have known about MaX Mosely ?

PeteBrant

You're not comparing like with like.

Anything to do with petrol shotages is subject to a degree of irresponsible reporting these days. Ever since the embargos of 2001.

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Its not the media reporting this that makes people panic buy, its when the politicians say 'theres nothing to worry about, no need to panic buy' that sparks the stampede

boiledshrimpnbutter

better get round the local chippy for the waste fat
get the old refinery going in the back shed

bugeyeandy

Wasn't trying to make a point

Nobody likes a smartarse

FlightMan