What are people going to do? start driving more just because they have a full tank instead of a tenners worth in there? All it's done is make people pre-purchase their fuel instead of filling when they normally would.
Petrol tanker drivers to go on strike
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What are people going to do? start driving more just because they have a full tank instead of a tenners worth in there? All it's done is make people pre-purchase their fuel instead of filling when they normally would.
Well it is the BBC, got to spin in somehow
Soldato
IF the government are aware of an imminent drop in the price of oil then the scaremongering tactics have generated them more money in tax before that drop. Just in time for the end of tax year too !
Filled up this morning at the local motorway services (it's the cheapest in the area and generally only a penny more than the cheapest stations in Newport) and no queues present. Not all the pumps were working though.
The Sainsburys had no diesel but was otherwise open as normal.
The Sainsburys had no diesel but was otherwise open as normal.
That's a touch dramatic, even for the internet :/
Associate
You could run/bike that!
The truth often is.
Associate
Saw my usual station looked pretty normal on the way out today so I took the chance to fill the car up. Upon pulling alongside the pump I saw a sign saying "£10 MAX", so I thought "Whatever, £10 will do for today and I'll maybe come back tomorrow".
Try and hit £10 dead on, but end up at 10.03 because I'm useless, wondering what they'll say as the person before me had managed to put in dead on £10.
I go in, greeted with a smile, pay and nothing was said until I looked out the window and saw someone putting in over £25 and I let out a loud sigh, lady then tells me "Oh, you can fill up with more now, but we haven't taken the signs down yet".
So tomorrow I'll be going back and filling up to the point where there's a waterfall of diesel flowing out of my filler cap.
Try and hit £10 dead on, but end up at 10.03 because I'm useless, wondering what they'll say as the person before me had managed to put in dead on £10.
I go in, greeted with a smile, pay and nothing was said until I looked out the window and saw someone putting in over £25 and I let out a loud sigh, lady then tells me "Oh, you can fill up with more now, but we haven't taken the signs down yet".
So tomorrow I'll be going back and filling up to the point where there's a waterfall of diesel flowing out of my filler cap.
Soldato
not to mention its the end of a quarter.
this could be the difference of the country officially being in recession again or not.
clever work by the government if so.
Yep, I will not be going there again, not as I did often as there are cheaper stations just up the road. But as said I couldn't believe the amount of idiots queueing for fuel at that price.
Would love it if the duty was dropped by 20p a litre from midnight tonight, it would serve the greedy lemmings who have hoarded the fuel right.
Caporegime
No he did not, he said "There is no imminent strike. The unions would have to give seven days' notice of any strike so there is no need to queue to buy petrol. If there is an opportunity to top up your tank if a strike is potentially on the way, then it is a sensible thing if you are able to do that. I absolutely do not want to raise the temperature on this any more than is necessary."
The media then focused entirely on the "top up your tank" part and over exaggerated it to oblivion.
Associate
Agree,
It was actually our wonderful government that started the panic, not the union leader who basically said there was a ballot for strike action but no imminent strike to take place, there are then a lot of other issues they have to deal with first, back to the table to see if the employers will renegotiate etc, strike action is a final solution.