My local petrol station is closed, and I started to panic as my gauge was on empty. Fortunately, a small village petrol station is still open and has petrol, so I put a bit more in than I usually would.
well i can report that as from tonight the garage at the asda wakefield, is closed.
not sure if they have run out of juice or just closed to stop congestion building up for the peeps at the supermarket.
sierra x x
Does this mean I might not be able to get to work?????????
Oh dear what a shame :shock:
Just have to spend the day at home!
Err helloooooooooo you could always walk!!!
Sierra now i know your taking the pi** . You only have two petrol vehicles in wakefield ones a snow plough and the other is a ldv AA van
Tanis, if you want to quote what someone's said, just hit the 'quote' button up to the top right of their post.
Freckledbird once again i bow to your wisdom
The ironic thing about it...is that we may only run out of petrol if people panic buy...and that panic creates more panic... so it is in fact a vicious circle.....so by putting out the story the job has already been done...
I use public transport so i am only going to be indirectly affected... but i have no sympathy for any group of people who want to hold the country to ranson and create that type of panic
is it is democratic then good for them... if they are going to create havoc to get their point across... then if they break the law in any way (and that includes go slows on motorways) then arrest them.... why should there need be any greater than anyone elses???????
Freckledbird thks appreciated
Asda in trafford park was rationing petrol over the weekend, max 30 quids worth on Saturday and 20 quids worth on Sunday the contry is going mad.
Freckledbird like all my other posts
NO offense meant
Newbie paranoia when a full timer comments thats all.
Freckledbird.
No worries
Still can't get the quote thing though.
And i consider myself PC literate.... how sad is that?
Quite frankly although inconvienient its about time the british people got some blody balls and used the same power of the people the french and the US populus have....
The US people wouldnt stand for the prices we pay over here... infact they even have rules, I believe, that doesnt allow the pumps to be owned by the oil companys so the power of the consumer runs slightly deeper than the "tax/duty"
The last time there was a protest everyone was up in arms and slagged off the protestors (especially the papers) and now we are at nearly 1 pound per lita when the us is nearer 1 pound a gallon.
The biggest feck up was when we had to go to litas and not gallons as any gov that put over about 3pence a gallon duty would not have been in power for long, but we are so stupid that 3pence a lita doesnt register yet works out about 12p(ish) a gallon... if HMG had put a 12p gallon increase back in the 80's it would not have lasted the week never mind waiting for a general election.
HMG knows that no matter how expensive petrol is, we wont give up our cars... simple!!!
Trains have been proven to, even fully laiden, be less eficient than a car with one occupent for the output of carbon particulates and also miles per gallon usage of raw fuel per people moved per mile.
LPG will be taxed even higher as soon as it becomes more popular than petrol and desil... as far as HMG is concerned it not about carbon or polution... but making money to pay some quango to say that we need a better transport system and also more quangos to make more stupid sugestions to make more money to have more quangos.
The best thing I saw tonight was that you can convert your car to run on cooking oil... and even better it can also use filtered cooking oil that your local chippy has to dump as its become to old to use.... but should you have the conversion and ask your local chippy "all that crap oil that you have to pay to get rid off... i'll take it off your hands for nothing...." you then filter it and use it in your car... you have to declair it and then pay HMG 24p a lita so save the chippy and cooking oil companys paying polution tax.... LIKE FUCK ME ITS WASTE, ITS BEING RECYCLED, IT COST NOTHING, ITS BEEN TAXED ALREADY, ITS NOT GOING TO END UP AS LAND FILL, wake up HMG and go take a flying fuck up your own concieted self indulgent arseholes....
And before anyone asks.... yes i have been inconvienienced by twats who filled up... drove 15 miles... came back... then topped up..... as i couldnt get to where i wanted to be tonight.
BUT
if people cant survive for a couple of weeks of inconvienienvce and even not getting to work to wake up HMG to people power then they deserve petrol at 4 pounds a lita and when they do they are not allowed to say "its to blody expensive..." in the 80's people would never have contemplated petrol at the price it is now... and the states still dont.. only us brits that roll over to get our tummys ticklled the moment HMG say bend over... we love being right butt fucked by the goverment cos we are all cowards.. all stiff upper lip and that crap!
OH and while i'm on a rant... perhaps we shoudl all go green and have electric cars? welll DUR so where does that electricity come from... like power stations that burn fule to produce lecki... then we have the wastage of the electricity as its moved to the power points we charge our electric cars from... The only "clean" fuel is atomic... but it creates a waste prduct that will be with us for 10's of thousands of years.
We also have now in nottingham an electic tram... and also a new road system that is designed to keep cars waiting and going around in circles far longer than the original system so people on the trams can get from a to b quickly (if they dont have 4 bags of shopping from tescos) but the rest of the trafic is being forced to be grid locked so increasing the amount of fuel waisted and the amount of polution in the city...
also while the tram physically infront of you produces no polution it produces more polution than the equivilent number of cars.... its just produces it outside of the city and in other places in the uk because it has to draw the power from electricity generating stations....