Petrol Strike?

[Mr_X]

just been on pistonheads, and it seems there might be another petrol strike.
probs will not go ahead, but speculation is good.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=524283&i=0

[kcsaxo]

dunno what to do, apparently prices may hit £1.50 by end of this year if things dont change, proper shafting time.

[smiith]

im not a happy chappy with fuel costs, 1.10 in whitby now, its a total piss take, 5 quid barely got me 20 miles yesterday

[Mr_X]

im not a happy chappy with fuel costs, 1.10 in whitby now, its a total piss take, 5 quid barely got me 20 miles yesterday

i had to fill up my mums diesel yesterday, was 125.9p a litre.

[Danr]

It's not going to go down. The country don't have the balls to do it. Not like France iirc. They just didn't go to work when prices got to high.

[MrHouston]

Was on the radio yesterday, North West will be hit due to a 48 hour strike in about a week, which will have a shortage for about a month

I hope there isn't one, the petrol ques last time were pathetic

[Mr_X]

It's not going to go down. The country don't have the balls to do it. Not like France iirc. They just didn't go to work when prices got to high.

thats what really getting to me, we are such walk overs.

[Tupps]

Petrol price is a joke ffs

[MrHouston]

Mass saxo blockade for 2 days, anyone game? :homme:

[frankie]

Mass saxo blockade for 2 days, anyone game? :homme:

hahah yea lol.

everyone should write a letter of complaint. starting with

Dear Mr G "i take it up the" Brown lol

[Barry123]

wont happen fact

[Adamski]

i cant beleive how much we get shafted for petrol nowadays, its a joke compared to everyone else. i have to drive a distance to work, petrol a week costs me a bomb nowadays. alot of replacement cars i had in mind now im sacking off cus i know they're just going to cost to much to run! :(

[Amiee]

A wish it bloody would happen!!!!!! Needs to come down a fair few pennies tbh!

[Noddy]

luckily, i've only got a 1.1 so it not costing me as much to run managed to find petrol at 105.9 not far from me on saturday, so i filled her right up to the brim (as much as it could physically hold :)) - the garage near to me is wavering around 106.9 - had to fill up my dads vectra diesel the other day at 124.9 - stupid prices!!!

don't see it doing much good though to be honest...

[Modified]

yeah its around 109.9 near me!!!! its crazy!!!! i travel 15miles to work and 15miles home and its getting a complete joke now!!!!

hope they strike!!!!!!! but really cant see it changing!!!! LAME!!!

id sign ne thing for petrol to go back down to 90/80 again! lame!

[MrHouston]

103.5 round here is cheapest atm

Average is about 105

[Mitchell]

http://gallery.digitaldeviation.com/d/1131-12/foshorlyyc3.jpg

i'll just ride my 636cc in the wintahhh

[Noddy]

luckily I only have to travel 1/4 mile to work :fcuk: and during the better weather, i try to walk every now and again to save costs on the car (talking of which i've got my tax this month! - £115 for 12mths!)

[djmartin]

104.8 is the cheapest i seen around my area
most i have seen is actually the station at the top of my street 109.6 or something total jokage if you ask me!

[steve_335]

i fill mine up at asda, it's steadily going up, remember a few weeks ago, it was 101.9, now it's 105.9. It's crazy. my 1.1 takes about £40 to fill up.

[Mitchell]

if they put it up too much, forcing me to walk to work, i'll just shit everywhere, on the pavements and the roads, see how that affects global warming.. F*CKERS!!!

[Zach]

average round here shot up from 103.9 to 107.9+ within a week. Madness!

I doubt anything will happen, but it sure as hell needs to!

But hey, we're British, we dont want to make a fuss incase we upset anyone :D

[Noddy]

all sax's will take the same ish to fill up, just with the lower engine sizes, that tanks goes abit further than the 1.6's :)

[Quick]

Rumours of a strike will cause people to panic buy fuel!
Which means better sales for the garages!

[laura_g]

wish it would happen although doubt it will :(

[Noddy]

Rumours of a strike will cause people to panic buy fuel!
Which means better sales for the garages!

in which case they'll put the prices up!?!?!?

[Modified]

in which case they'll put the prices up!?!?!?

well they would make a killing if people panic buy!!!! lukcy for me im off work next week so wont be using car if petrol is stupidly high! but every1 needs a car! and petrol is realy just a joke!

[saxo1510]

haha just done you do click dont click...cant believe i actually did it haha

[Doyle]

i didnt know anything about it till this morning, grangemouth is closing for 2 days and that being our only refinery in scotland everyone has went mental.

[Audrey_D]

I know. The petrol stations near us had huge queues and alot of places out of petrol...crazy people!

[davew]

you get raped wherever you buy petrol. no point moaning weather its 102.9p or 108.9p its fucking ridiculous either way.


company diesal van ftw

[Doyle]

ive got just above a 1/4 tank and if i run out i aint going to work simple as.

[gozzy-vtr]

dunno what to do, apparently prices may hit £1.50 by end of this year if things dont change, proper shafting time.

u have a 1.1 imagine us vtr ppl lol im doin 40quid a week round the town.. rediculous.. diesel power maybe an option

[nathan0711]

cheapest near me is about 106.9p a litre for petrol and sumthing like 119p for diesel, its way too much!!! i agree a strike mite get the prices down!! it needs to come down. went down to london a few weeks ago and saw it at 124.3p a litre for petrol and bout 145.6p for diesel. who pays those prices!!! bit like motorway services though, petrol there is way overpriced!

[ryhornvtr]

Its costing me about £30 a week to get to uni and back 3 times in the week. Thats just fuel and park and ride one of those days. I will not get rid of my vts though, then the government have won imo. If i was to add tax and insurance on my commute it would be about £46 a week:panic:

A strike will either not happen and nothing will change, or it will happen, people panic buy and still nothing will change.

[BenSilverSaxo]

Only way things are gonna change is if the haulage and distribution companies make a stand.

They need to stop delivering things, no food on the supermarket shelves and protests would really worry the government.

It would require one large distribution company with alot of power, and the state of the industry at the moment we

a.) dont have a strong british company to do it(and no eddie stobart and james irlam arent big enough)

b.) operators from the european union would come straight in and pick up from where we stopped.

Im off to china tbh lol.

[JC-Furio]

if they put it up too much, forcing me to walk to work, i'll just shit everywhere, on the pavements and the roads, see how that affects global warming.. F*CKERS!!!

lmao. shit on pavements and roads, what a treat that would be :p

[Dave86]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7357106.stm I think thats what the fuss is about

[Sparco_Tom]

lets all chip in together and create out own super fuel

[d4r3n]

madness really not like they making enough money out of the fuel in the first place.

[Nathan]

Between Petrol And Road tax, i dont see why anybody in this country needs sex, we all get F**ked By the government everyday lol

I wonder If we all chipped in and made our own petrol company, charged 99.9p a litre and see how much buisness we get. before long we would all be minted ;)

This time next year we'll be millionaire's!

[evans1089]

109.9 around chesterfield now :(

[Wayner87]

http://www.petrolprices.com/ is your friend ;)

[Danhunt]

About 1.10 here, absolute joke.

Good thing i dont have a car at the moment really :)

[Natalie]

I paid 108.9 for unleaded yesterday. It cost me £51 to fill up a saxo :fcuk: It's truly ridiculous how much we are charged compared to some other countries. We can only afford to take the TVR out once a week and we have to put normal unleaded in it. We just can't afford the price of super unleaded

[saxo_asa]

the joys of motoring

[Adamski]

Worse thing is i remember when it was about 30p!

[ryhornvtr]

Its now £1.10 at my local:n:

[Lozza_vtr]

Bring on the strike. Not that it would make much difference anyway. :n:

[craig180]

Worse thing is i remember when it was about 30p!

lol, I'm obviously not as old as you! When I started driving it was 59.9p a litre

Heard on the news this morning that oil companies are accused of profiting after fuel has risen 5p in the space of a week in some places.

Ridiculous, but what can we do about it? Everything is going up in price at the moment. China is to blame

[furiojim]

China is to blame

haha :y:

[craig180]

Seriously, because China's economy has boomed in the last 5-6 years demand for such trivial things as oil and milk has blown out of all proportion.

[sharpie]

up to date with the latest news i see.

[Danr]

Seriously, because China's economy has boomed in the last 5-6 years demand for such trivial things as oil and milk has blown out of all proportion.

and india i bet. Growing stupidly quick.

[craig180]

and india i bet. Growing stupidly quick.

3rd biggest growing economy in the world at the moment.

[Danr]

the world's gonna be fucked in about 10 years. So many super powers, we will all be fighting each other and tbh, i don't really rate our chances.

[craig180]

Bring back the Bond Baddies for true world domination!

[sharpie]

Seriously, because China's economy has boomed in the last 5-6 years demand for such trivial things as oil and milk has blown out of all proportion.

no

the grangemouth one is because there is a dispute about pensions. the workers just now are on an extremely generous pension where they are not required to make any contribution, it's all the employer. however this is due to change to bring it in line with most other occupational pensions.

people speculate and panic buy - which leads to shortages as there is too much demand on individual petrol stations.

[Danr]

Half of them already have the look down....
http://itstillnews.com/Articles/March07/Images/putin.jpg

[craig180]

Ridiculous, but what can we do about it? Everything is going up in price at the moment. China is to blame

no

the grangemouth one is because there is a dispute about pensions. the workers just now are on an extremely generous pension where they are not required to make any contribution, it's all the employer. however this is due to change to bring it in line with most other occupational pensions.

people speculate and panic buy - which leads to shortages as there is too much demand on individual petrol stations.

Read the previous posts before spouting ;) Wasn't referring to Grangemouth

[MrHouston]

I'm still in favour for the mass saxo rolling roadblock.

[craig180]

I'm still in favour for the mass saxo rolling roadblock.

No, I'm reserving that for when I move out of my current house. Going to seriously piss off my annoying neighbour with 2348576348 saxo's

[sharpie]

Read the previous posts before spouting ;) Wasn't referring to Grangemouth

what you said wasn't relevant at all to the thread. you also mention milk as an example which isn't affecting the UK, as most of it china's milk imports are from inside the EU. there are also strict quotas to limit the impact that this can have, and to keep the cost of living down inside the EU regardless of what happens with china, for example.

no doubt china has an affect on the price of oil however, there are many other factors which i am not going to outline in this thread about a petrol strike.

[MrHouston]

Ahahah.

Imagine them walking out the house to see the road bumper to bumper with noisy saxos :homme:

[craig180]

what you said wasn't relevant at all to the thread. you also mention milk as an example which isn't affecting the UK, as most of it china's milk imports are from inside the EU. there are also strict quotas to limit the impact that this can have, and to keep the cost of living down inside the EU regardless of what happens with china, for example.

no doubt china has an affect on the price of oil however, there are many other factors which i am not going to outline in this thread about a petrol strike.
As I work in the industry I can tell you for a fact China's recent Economic growth has had a direct impact on the prices of comodities such as milk, flour, coffee beans, dairy products etc
Ahahah.

Imagine them walking out the house to see the road bumper to bumper with noisy saxos :homme:

Would love to see the miserable old gits face then!

Anyway, back on track. 107.9p by me this morning (remember when we were whinging that petrol had tipped 90p a litre? :zainy:)