With the price of fuel going through the roof, it looks like theres gonna be trouble.
The fuel lobby protesters say as from wednesday they are going to blockade the refineries,and drive about at 20 miles per hour on the motorways.
Mr s is a wagon driver and his firm are already geared up for it by preserving stocks of fuel.
How will you cope if the pumps run dry, and how will it affect your daily life?.
I know there are a lot of peeps on s/h that drive for a living .
sierra x x
Won't affect me unless I can't get to work, but then I work for the local college and can catch the shuttle bus which they will keep supplied!
Whilst I'm all in favour for reducing prices but can't support blockades, the last ones did cost lives and affected emergency services, hospitals etc and whilst money is important, it should never come before people's lives!
C x
naughty naughty freckledbird you know the devil makes work for idle hands. :twisted:
sierra x x
if i can not get fuel then i basically could not get to work.
the job i do involves visiting peolple in their homes and attending important meetings that can affect their lives in a big way. Also if i cannot get to work then i wouldnt get paid past the 2 weeks holiday pay i have.
i understand something has to be done about the fast rise in fuel prices, but i dont know what the solution would be. ???
xx fem xxx
I get a bit longer than most as i run on LPG . After that we just use the local cab firm to give us tips on where the fuel is .
I am lucky that I work and live at the same place.. but boy what a country we live in eh! If we all stopped buying petrol from say Shell one month, and crippled them, then say Esso the next month... the message would soon get across..
Well if there is no fuel I will just cary on cycling to work. Last blockade didn't affect me either, I just don't need to drive far enough.
Having said that it might affect my weekend away if I can't get fuel at the other end.... would be stuck 100's of miles from home.
On a serious note though... maybe some of the people carriers and 4x4's that shuttle kids to school wouldn't be on the road trying to knock me off my bike... might do the environment some good. Come on people develop some legs... walk in the city!!! ( I accept that people need to travel reasonable distances by Car... but some trips take the piss)
Well I don't drive and haven't used a bus since I moved up here from Brum, so the main inconvenience I'll face is hordes of people using the Metro 'cos they can't get around by car or bus.
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These bloody fuel protestors still get my goat though, what right do they have to bring the country to a halt in an effort to pay less tax whilst screwing up both the local environment and the planet? I apologise to all the drivers on here as I don't intend to have a go at any individuals, but the fact remains that we move far too much stuff around this country by road instead of rail or water transport (we have a perfectly good canal and river network, why not use it for non-perishable or time critical goods?)
Fair enough if people want to protest, but bully-boy tactics like blockading refineries go beyond the pale and are simply indefencible as far as I'm concerned.
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For the first time ever i am happy i take the london underground to work.
At least I wont be effected that mutch by it....
To be honest i think panic bying will happen again and people will be selfish in what they get. To be honest i have a car and i will just fill my car up as normal. If everyone does that there wont be a shortage....
I wonder if lack of fuel will be the new reason why people dont go to munchs.....
MikeC
The rising cost of fuel effects everyone, with the cost of fuel going up everything in the shops will have to go up to pay for the rise in the fuel to get items into the shops in the first place so the knock on effect will be much more than the 10pence a week they keep putting on fuel.
Doris!!......Doris!!..........get out of that bath right now! I've got to fill it with petrol.....there's going to be a shortage you know :grin: :grin: :grin:
i hear this every year THE FUELS GONE UP THE FUELS GONE UP, try going to my local garage i have been putting in every week for years now and its never gone up still its great.
Do you think the fuel panic will put dogging under a little strain? Everyone is panicing and there are cars bumbper 2 bumbper
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what fuel panic? :shock:
my guage is in the red
*Kit heads off to get in touch with the real world*