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"This whole petrol thing..."

... I think the country is going mad.

With people at work reckoning that petrol stations in Bishops Stortford (where I work) are already running out (how true this is I don't know. And the huge queues I saw myself last night in the town where I live (Braintree) everyone seems to be panic buying.

Why? Surely things aren't going to get as bad as they were 5 years ago when even buses and ambulances were starting to run out - no one wants to see that again.

What do they expect the government to do? If they reduce the tax on petrol, then something else will have to go up to make up the difference.

I don't understand about the whole OPEC thing though, I read that they were going to be asked to up production - which gives the impression they're not running at full capacity at the moment - why not? Or are they content to sit there and collect the the 60+ dollars a barrel or whatever it is now.

We sold 4 times as much fuel as normal today at the garage I work at, mostly with people filling up jerry cans. We are expecting a tanker delivery tomorrow morning, and I'm so convinced we won't have any problems that I haven't filled up yet, despite almost being on the red.

I got a full tank of diesel last week as i'm gangsta.

I hope the country descends into a mad max style wasteland, where V8 interceptors tear up the roads and freaky looking geezers in gyrocopters point twelve bores in your face. "Looks like I got me some gasoline, eh? EH?"

Get a bus. Or a pushbike. Or walk. Or a job nearer home.

Only lazy people need be affected.

I agree. ;)

Oh lord, I'm now constantly going to be looking over my shoulder when I'm in Stortford (where I live) wondering which wierdo I pass might be YH.

I'm scared.

Ah yes but the only times I'm in Stortford I imagine you'll be in Sawbo. So you don't need to be that scared...

Smedlos wrote:
> They're not even planning on blocking the refineries are they?

Nope, because after last time, the government made t illegal to block refineries. The worst they can do is drive very slowly in front of the tankers, forcing them to slow down. Which doesn't really have the effect...

I read on Sky News that the biggest demonstration consisted of .... 12 people.

Haha.

They don't even need to go near the refineries to cause a fuss.

Just put a press release out saying they're planning a blockade, and people will start to act like idiots.

My solution is an odd one. Wreck my car so it's in a garage, not using any of it's precious, precious petrol. I'd like to claim that the state it is now in was wholly deliberate, but that would be a lie.