daveg wrote:It's alright you for you lot. I've got my Mother in Law stopping and I need a full tank to get her home.Let's have some sympathy please - some of us are in dire need
I hope that the this lot have Police at the fuel stations to ensure that only those with a desperate need get fuel.
I include you in this as I have a lot of sympathy for you and know how you feel, except it used to be my mother.
Keith Edwards I do not care about spelling and grammar
Mazola? Can you still buy it? Will it work in our Clio? How about lard?
We were out today to into Plymouth by car - don't ask! - and came home via a few other places. The amount of petrol stations with queues outside was amazing! Why, for goodness sake?
I hear that petrol sales are up by 80% and diesel sales up by 60%.
It's an ill wind that does nobody any good. Someone's making a killing here. Maybe Mr CamKlegeron?
Has Cameron got some cunning plan? Any talk of panic buying of petrol / diesel is a self-fulfilling prophecy and is surely going to lead to some disorganisation of supplies.
Is he intent on some sort of showdown with the delivery drivers? Does he think that this may be his Miners' Strike? He does seem to be gearing up for another Falklands. Has he got a handbag? Has he the faintest idea of what's going on?
============================================================================ It was only when i was reading the Daily T in bed last night that I realised that it was Norm's birthday and John Major's as well! 29 March must have something about it.
Cameron's advice was "top up, but don't queue," so the nation's drivers would have an extra third of a tankful of 'resilience' if the strike ever happened. It demonstrates that he, and probably much of the Cabinet, are not like the rest of us no matter how much they pretend to be. They do not appreciate the effect on a 'normal' person's life of suddenly not being able to use the car, van, etc, and that when your personal mobility is threatened you are bound to take steps to protect yourself and your livelihood. 'Jerry Can' Maude in particular seems completely out of touch with everyday living. He thinks as a person with a garage full of limousines and a gardener who can spend his day making sure they are always full of fuel while he (Maude) goes about his normal business with Ministerial chauffeurs and whatnot. So this fiasco is a reminder that Tory grandees are fundamentally 'not like us'. This does not seem to apply to 'Normal' Tebbit, who was more of an ordinary bloke (no matter what you think of his politics).
Any body who is hoping to get re-elected must pretend that ALL of any voter's journeys are totally necessary. Also dont you know that you cant use a bike if you dont have fuel in the car to drive the bike to the start?
Fortunately I filled up my tank so I will have enough fuel to get to my Audax on Sunday. Though last year I did cycle to the start (and home).
patricktaylor wrote:Perhaps I'm wrong but I thought it was bad practice to store petrol in a steel container due to the risk of sparks (which is why I threw away my Paddy Hopkirk steel can ages ago and replaced it with a 10-litre plastic one from Halfords).
What is petrol stored in,in vehicles?
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
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daveg wrote:It's alright you for you lot. I've got my Mother in Law stopping and I need a full tank to get her home.
Let's have some sympathy please - some of us are in dire need
Your need is greater than mine,if you want to driver over the Pennines and syphon my tank dry you're welcome to it!
Worry ye not - managed to get her home and all is now peace again! Grateful for the offer though.
Reminds me of a John Smith's advert many years ago about a group of lads ordering their pints at the bar having suffered the ultimate privation of working "down south"!
If it wasn't for cars, there wouldn't be the amount of tarmac that there is.
This is the government's advice?
