petrol prices
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maybe a full tank will only last to midweek?
i generally put in £40 each time i fill up, at best it will last to Weds (from a Sun night).
According to the news if they don't reach a settlement by next weekend they are going to do the exact same thing and keep doing it every week until they get what they want, I wanted to take a look at a car down London way next weekend to
If they don't want their £32k a year job, rising to either £36k (at their estimate) or £41k (company estimate) by Jan 2009, I'll happily take it off their hands.
why dont you then? with the need for fuel apparently increasing more drivers will be needed anyway?
Also, isnt the £41k only if the driver takes ALL available overtime each month?
Because for some bizarre reason you're not allowed to sack people refusing to do their jobs, so these people are refusing to do their jobs and holding the company and the country to ransom. If the drivers think they are that badly paid, then they should find a better paying job, if they can't, then they aren't being badly paid.
As for me not taking the job, I'd rather not associate with the militants that seem to be running the place at the moment
As for the £36/41k thing, I think a large number of people would also happily just have the £36k and not do the overtime...
No one mentioned sacking them, why not enquire about recruitment?
I fully agree with the sentiment of 'not happy? find a better job' :]
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1 out the 5 stations I went too this morning had fuel. Had to fill up as I need the car to work. Still muppets in there filling cans.
Needed to fill up on Sunday (like I do every week)...11 petrol stations in southampton had no unleaded petrol. Ended up going to the BP garage in Sholing on Burseldon rd and paid 122p a litre for the standard stuff... so annoyed with the prices at the moment!
A lot of people buy petrol at these silly prices because they have to, not because they want to.
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Theres no price that people would stop buying at, what else can they do as an alternative?
Even £2.50 a litre wouldnt stop me at the moment, i simply cannot live without my car (No Public Transport to where i work).
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Yes there is - it might be high, but there exists a price in ANY market whereby demand would drop by a considerable amount.
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Last Thursday, filling up at Asda...
We get there at about 9pm, bit of a queue but there are just the people on the pumps in the 'express lanes' (the other lanes have a bit of a queue). So we join the 'express' lanes.
On the pumps is one older guy is in a unremarkable saloon of some description, in front of a woman in a brand new Lexus (who incidentally managed to put about £30 of diesel in, I mean why...?).
Anyway, we watch him there, in the express lane, holding the pump for a few minutes, hardly moving, not exactly trying to fill up, but he might be trying work out the instructions for the pre pay pump.
While he's there, the Lexus woman fills up, and is now beeping for him to get a move on. Someone goes over to ask him if he needs any help. The guy replaces the pump and then drives off.
I mean how sad. He wasn't really old, but he has to go back to his misses to tell her that he can't get any petrol because he couldn't work out the pump!
We get there at about 9pm, bit of a queue but there are just the people on the pumps in the 'express lanes' (the other lanes have a bit of a queue). So we join the 'express' lanes.
On the pumps is one older guy is in a unremarkable saloon of some description, in front of a woman in a brand new Lexus (who incidentally managed to put about £30 of diesel in, I mean why...?).
Anyway, we watch him there, in the express lane, holding the pump for a few minutes, hardly moving, not exactly trying to fill up, but he might be trying work out the instructions for the pre pay pump.
While he's there, the Lexus woman fills up, and is now beeping for him to get a move on. Someone goes over to ask him if he needs any help. The guy replaces the pump and then drives off.
I mean how sad. He wasn't really old, but he has to go back to his misses to tell her that he can't get any petrol because he couldn't work out the pump!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7456458.stm
The nearest petrol station to me - £1.99 a litre, and people are still filling up there. Mental. There's an Esso with no shortage two minutes down the road as well.
The nearest petrol station to me - £1.99 a litre, and people are still filling up there. Mental. There's an Esso with no shortage two minutes down the road as well.
Texaco on embankment road in Plymouth seems to have yanked it's prices up as well, £1.35 for unleaded and £1.55 for diesel when I went past, and people were still there filling up.