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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
We won't be able to go to Blue's if we can't get petrol sad
On the plus side, I won't be able to get to work lol More holidays, yay!
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
well i rely on the bus service to get to work ( 2 busses there and 2 busses back ) so if the busses run out of fuel then i am buggered sad
My hubby is self employed as a computer engineer but does all his work round peoples houses so he needs fuel to get about confused
eventually as we have no work we will run out of food surprised then starvation will kick in and we will die :(
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naughty naughty freckledbird you know the devil makes work for idle hands. :twisted:
sierra x x

I didn't say they would be idle, did I ? :twisted:
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
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naughty naughty freckledbird you know the devil makes work for idle hands. :twisted:
sierra x x

I didn't say they would be idle, did I ? :twisted:
69position hump smackbottom blast
is this wot you had in mind mucky bugger.
sierra x x
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 .
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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 .

do you think the cab firms would tell you , afterall they will be wanting
your custom?
sierra x x
Its about time the ordinary people of this country got off their arses onto their hind legs and stopped the legalised robbery that goes on day in and day out poke smackbottom :sparring: duel :hunk: :kick: :small-print: banghead :boxing:
Fuel, pole tax ..... oh sorry, not allowed to call it that any more, oh wtf, same meat different gravy ................ tax this tax that ......... unless you are megga rich of course, then you can afford your tax avoidance lawyers. ......... licence this, certificate that, pay pay pay ........... and are our meagre salaries going up? are they feck................. and in the midst’s of all this, 1000's of pensioner will die needlessly this year because BRITISH gas have decided to increase their bills by 14% (or so i read)
GREAT BRITAIN ……………….. My :moon:
:shock: :shock: :shock: fecin hell, wtf did that come from, ........ sorry peeps must be getting cinical in my old age rotflmao :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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..
If I run out of fuel when I'm in one of my favourite laybys I'll be as happy as a pig in shit! :thumbup:
I'd need to rely on the extended SH Family to keep me alive though. In return I'm sure I could make myself useful somehow! wink :twisted:
innocent :whistling: :whistling:
Quote by EagerSlut
If I run out of fuel when I'm in one of my favourite laybys I'll be as happy as a pig in shit! :thumbup:
I'd need to rely on the extended SH Family to keep me alive though. In return I'm sure I could make myself useful somehow! wink :twisted:
innocent :whistling: :whistling:

I'll make sure I keep some fuel spare so I can join you eager :wink: :wink:
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.
< / end rant>
Quote by EagerSlut
If I run out of fuel when I'm in one of my favourite laybys I'll be as happy as a pig in shit! :thumbup:
I'd need to rely on the extended SH Family to keep me alive though. In return I'm sure I could make myself useful somehow! wink :twisted:
innocent :whistling: :whistling:

be sure to take a large lunch box es your gonna get mighty hungery burning them calories
oops sorry looking at your avatar you already have a large lunch box heehee. :giggle:
sierra x x
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I'll make sure I keep some fuel spare so I can join you eager wink :wink:

Woooooooooooo Hoooooooooooooo!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
Party!! drinkies
Let's hope it happens then and we'll have a layby party. :censored:
:rascal: :rascal: :rascal:
The cost of fuel in this country is indeed an absolute disgrace. What really made my blood boil is hearing a Treasury spokesman on Radio 4 last week dismiss the critics on fuel prices by saying that "More than half the fuel used in the UK attracts little or no duty at all." He went on to say that, therefore, reducing the duty wouldn't make much difference!!
Now, in terms of TOTAL fuel used, he is correct. But only because aviation fuel doesn't attract duty (and agricultural fuel is quite rightly taxed at a drastically reduced rate). However, to anyone who wasn't aware of the background it would have sounded as if the fuel we use in our everyday lives is not heavily taxed. This, of course, is absolute codswallop! After all, most of us don't use aviation fuel to run our vehicles and the vast majority of what we pay at the pumps goes straight to the Government. An outrageous piece of spinning. Creating a completely false impression without actually (techinically) lying.
On a VERY serious note. As I work away from home during the week, if there is a serious fuel shortage, I may not be able to get home to see my family at the weekend! sad :( :(
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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 .

do you think the cab firms would tell you , afterall they will be wanting
your custom?
sierra x x
They told us last time , they want to keep our account :-)
Quote by Silk and Big G
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 .

do you think the cab firms would tell you , afterall they will be wanting
your custom?
sierra x x
They told us last time , they want to keep our account :-)
good for you :thumbup: its nice to know not everyones after your money.
sierra x
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be sure to take a large lunch box es your gonna get mighty hungery burning them calories
oops sorry looking at your avatar you already have a large lunch box heehee. :giggle:
sierra x x

He hee!! :grin: :grin: redface surprisedops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :twisted:
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< rant>
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 indefensible as far as I'm concerned.
< / end rant>

I'm much too drunk, and much too tired to answer this rant.. but basically I’m moved to say, we should move more goods by rail, rivers, canals etc... Rail don't pay tax on their fuel, so their 1 mpg trains are great. But who decides how we move our goods.. Joe public? No.. Major industry does.. and how do they make their decision? cost.. pure and simple, it comes down to the bottom line, how much will it cost?.. If rail, due to the nature of privatisation, out costs itself in basic haulage, then industry will send it by road.. Industry, however much it says it wants to protect the environment, is only after profit.. Joe public on the other hand, who works in industry, has no say.. they have to make their way to work however they can.. some don't have the luxury of public transport, as since deregulation of the buses and privatisation of the passenger rail network, that has come under the profit scheme as well. Some people have no option but to use their cars.. So why should Joe public NOT protest. As a country we pay more tax than anyone else.. Anybody who protests is protesting not only at the fact our fuel costs too much, but mainly at the fact that our government is shit!
The U.S. pays no tax on its fuel, and pay roughly 37p a litre at the pumps, but the U.S. is probably the biggest user of fuel.. For environmentalists out there, the U.S. refuses to cut down on it's emissions, although being one of the highest polluters in the world.
We would all drive hybrid cars if the government made it worth our while (for years it subsidised diesel costs to make us buy diesel cars) but while they cost more than the average car we won't.. For Joe Public, most of the time, it's shanks' pony, bikes, or the motor vehicle. If you were in a union at work, and the employer did something that took your wage off you, you would strike to see fair play prevail. Blockades at refinery’s are the same thing..
I'm sorry, you have already said you don't drive and use the metro instead.. good for you. For 30 years, I lived in the country where the first public transport service arrived at my place of work 3 hours after I should have started... We don't all have this luxury of public transport and 9-5 jobs.. I have had to rely on my car for the last 15 years in my job, and that is for a public transport organisation.
The blockades at the most effective will stop Joe Public getting to work, bringing the country to a halt.. Who will it affect the most? The government and major industry, that’s who.. and then they may decide to move more stuff by rail or canal etc.. thereby pleasing the environmentalists as well..
I'm sorry if my drunken rantings offend anybody.. but I see the good in the blockades, and now i need to go to bed.. biggrin
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.
This may be a slap in the face for a lot of people who drive their kids to school instead of walking, so many do this when they are within walking distance, makes my blood boil. Of course I understand that some parents have to shoot off to work straight after so thats another matter.
Maybe this will just make us reflect on times when people can walk instead of taking the car.......or not rolleyes
I dont use much petrol but always make sure I have at least quarter of a tank left in case I have to shuttle my accident prone son to hospital! If im that desperate i can always get my m8 whos an A&E nurse to get me a tenners worth of fuel!
Do you think the fuel panic will put dogging under a little strain? Everyone is panicing and there are cars bumbper 2 bumbper
:shock:
what fuel panic? :shock:
my guage is in the red
*Kit heads off to get in touch with the real world*