Fuel Scare - pumps going on strike

[Craig]

I have heard that next week fuel pumps are due to go on strike
due to the high fuel prices, dont know if its true,
but i just filled up at my local sainsburys and there were a few ques.

thats why i have just filled my sax full to the brim
at 94.9p per litre

smileys/smiley5.gif craig

[pug_boe]

great i better go and fill mine up then just incase - i had noticed it was getting more expensive around here, when i was in cardiff the other day this 1 place it was over a £1 smileys/smiley3.gif

[Scott]

im not going to fill up so i cant get to worksmileys/smiley4.gif

[Craig]

just be carefull, if its anything like the last strike it could last 1-2 weeks smileys/smiley5.gif

[pug_boe]

thats a pretty good excuse not to go to work scott lol smileys/smiley17.gif i need petrol coz my lover lives a 25 min drive away and im always going to get him take him to my house then take him bk home lol smileys/smiley19.gif

[Craig]

haha good idea scott, im liking it smileys/smiley17.gif

[pug_boe]

il never forget the last strike nrly 5 years ago - the day we had no petrol at all in the stations i was sat in my driving instructors car waiting to get petrol - just before my driving test smileys/smiley13.gif and because we was 5 mins late at the test centre, the dude was going to fail me smileys/smiley13.gif so i was so worried then i failed smileys/smiley19.gif its funny though that was september 5 yrs ago and now my lil sis is having her driving test in 2 weeks lol

[jaybiss]

most expensive price that i kno of is in worcester where its 1.06 a litre smileys/smiley3.gif

[oz_borne]

ours is 1.04 i believe!!!!

JESUS!!!!

mental note to fill up, i can walk to school/work, i just need petrol to get the hell outta gloucester!!!

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[Yates]

mite go fill up tonight tho, its only goin up cos of the hurricane isnt it? would think when that has all died it would go down a bit, tesco was 88p and morrisons is normally 89p so il check that out later

[Tony_Jay86]

I heard that all supermarkets wernt going to higher the prices, my mams just been to morrisions & said its about 94.9p a litre where as at all the petrol stations its like 99p a litre, iam not sure wether the supermarket bit is true but its always worth checking out.

EDIT:- Yeh i heard it was because of the hurricane.

[Simo]

Suie told me they were striking on Wednesday next week...

I paid 101.99p on the way home from TRAX smileys/smiley5.gif

[Craig]

well im biking it to work smileys/smiley17.gif

[higgzy03]

i think i will be paying sainsbury's a quick visit 2nite and fill up still it is only 80p per litre for me plus if there is a strike i still get petrol due to me working in the medical sector

[Craig]

looks grim guys my sax is on the driveway with a tank full to the brim
just hope it lasts for a couple of days smileys/smiley20.gif

[pug_boe]

this is crap lol - just phoned andrew (lover) and told him to get his wallet out coz hes paying for a full tank of petrol for me later lol

[Yates]

think im gona go get sum later!

[alex19]

Hehe,

I can remeber the last strike... Quite awhile ago...

If I was all you lot, I'd try and keep my tank full for the next few weeks, so if they go on strike, You've got the tank there if ya need it!

Is anit scarey when it goes on strike though... ya dnt have to look when ya crossin the road, because no one drives!

[MikeCracknell]

93.9p down here - Scaynes Hill Service Station - 3p cheaper than Tescos!

Lst strike, I had my scooter and 6 tanks in the garage - lasted me for weeks!

Mike

[Craig]

when i was filling up tonight i could see all the sly people filling plenty tanks of petrol and loading the boot up with them smileys/smiley17.gif

[Saxonator]

petrol is around 92p here and all petrol stations round my way last week shut the pumps and wouldnt sell any petrol and it was 10 miles to next station that was open an my warning light was on so i thought i was fucked

iv got orders now i can drive, fill up all petrol cans (4)

gonna be a bloody bomb tomorrow in the sax with all petrol cans smileys/smiley5.gif

[Dave_J_UK]

when i was filling up tonight i could see all the sly people filling plenty tanks of petrol and loading the boot up with them smileys/smiley17.gif

I might just do that! Sometimes i have to travel 400 miles a week! thats a full tank! so i'll have to have some stashed or i won't be able to go to work for more than a week!

[grantsmith1985]

thats the thin, I do 400 miles a week every week so even if tehre are strikes im buggered straight away smileys/smiley5.gif

[saxx]

ive got 3/4 tank may top it up tomorro

can get 400 round town - and as i only use it for 12 miles a week i think ill b safe smileys/smiley17.gif

[dsh85]

i totally support people going on strike over this! the cost of petrol is taking the piss nowadays! yet the americans get it cheap as chips. it was only something like 79p a litre in january!! think ill defiently be making a stop off at tescos soon tho!

[Saxonator]

im gonna have to get petrol tomoz, iv got just under half a tank and then i start college next week so gonna have to keep it constantly full !

[C2_VTR]

I filled mine up yesterday and it was at 93.9 for the 99 unleaded at Tesco! Wish I was back in spain!!! Fuel there was about 60p per litre!

[saxogal]

just be carefull, if its anything like the last strike it could last 1-2 weeks smileys/smiley5.gif

1-2 weeks omg , last strike i had waiting in que for 1hour and then went to the wrong pump the diesel pump so i waiting until another was free and everyone thought id just pushed in and the whole garage was shouting at me smileys/smiley13.gif

[dandaman2005]

LOL!!! maybe its just a lie and the petrol garages just want you to fill up and give them more money.

[AdamH]

my girlfriends just got back from orlando its its almost 3 dollars over there for unleaded she says :O thats like.. £1.50? somthing like that

[AdamH]

3.00 USD United States Dollars = 1.63038 GBP United Kingdom Pounds

[Craig]

yeh but thats still really cheap saxoadam cause they charge per gallon not litre

[percy]

this is fukin stupid the price we pay for petrol, its always us car drivers that get taxed 4 everything filled mione up 2day at 95.6 for a liter smileys/smiley3.gif filled up 2petrol cans aswell so i should be ok

[Raysax]

I may well have a fun drive up north on my hands nxt Mon then!! smileys/smiley5.gif 288miles to go see the misses for a week!!

[MikeCracknell]

2 cars and a scooter - theres at least 3 weeks of normal motoring for me there smileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gif

Filling up tonight...

Mike

[percy]

scooter as in moped?

[MikeCracknell]

Moped = 50cc or under
Scooter = 51cc+

My scooter = 176cc!!!

See my website for photos of the mission trips I have done on it (Inverness, Belgium, Holland, France, Barcelona + south of France)
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Mike

[nick_vts]

I do a 40 mile round trip for work everyday so im buggered if there are strikes!

[percy]

well u can have some time off work smileys/smiley17.gif smileys/smiley2.gif it just pisses me off when people round here seem 2 panic if they havent got £5 or more of petrol they go stupid nd start mass buying i remember b4 dwn from me there is a petrol station and they were queing for a mile smileys/smiley3.gif

[addictedtosax]

the petrol prices are really hurting my back pocket. im only in part time work and ill be startin uni in a week. the hurricane excuse ias just that, an excuse! we dont get fuel from the usa at all. and if everyone remebers b4 the hurricane the prices were going up fast as it was.

well even if i cant travel about 4 a week or 2 i bloody hope a strike happens becasue i 4 1 am outraged, OUTRAGED!!! smileys/smiley7.gif lol

[Craig]

right got some latest news the strike its set to take place this friday (16th), The prices are stupid, i used to pay 79.9p about 6 month ago

[DevilDamo]

Motorists queue for petrol

Monday September 12, 01:28 PM

"Fears of another fuel crisis have already prompted a rush to the pumps.

Drivers in Yorkshire, the North East and parts of London have reported hour-long queues forming on forecourts.

Retailers - who describe trade as "brisk" - are calling for common sense at the pumps, saying there is no shortage.

BP, which operates 1,300 filling stations, said there were no signs that sales this weekend was abnormal. Texaco, with 1,100 stations, said business had simply been "brisk".

Ray Holloway, director of the Petrol Retailers Association, said: "Whilst I would accept that yesterday was a robust day's trading, we don't believe that we are seeing anything which equates to 2000.

"There is no panic buying and people should be aware that there is no shortage of fuel."

But supplies of diesel at an Asda store in Great Bridge, West Bromwich, ran out temporarily on Sunday in the rush to fill up.

Refinery blockades and motorway go-slows are predicted from Wednesday, as motorists demonstrate against soaring petrol prices.

They want Chancellor Gordon Brown to cut fuel duty to prevent petrol prices climbing above £1/litre.

The call is opposed by environmental campaigners who claim the real cost of motoring is lower now than when Labour took power in 1997."

[grantsmith1985]

Something better happen soon, I am spending £50 of my own money a week to get to work smileys/smiley7.gif

[saxx]

apparently its more than a one day strike accordin to the radio this morning????

the supermarkets down here are out of petrol due to the extreme demand - people are going mad!! nutters!

[DevilDamo]

... better go shopping tonight then. make sure i stack up on bannoffe pie. that should keep me going.

[grantsmith1985]

Although Damo they are saying there is no shortage. THe sheel opposite my work has put a 20 litre cap on every purchase of fuel and people are queueing about 300 metres down the road to get into it!!!

[Graeme]

im screwed as my light is on in my car!! lol and how goods that i get my vtr this weeks and i cant put any fuel in it!! smileys/smiley13.gif

[saxx]

it wont work bcos people in this country cant survive without petrol!!

they'll have to think of another way to get the tax on petrol dropped!


damo..............banoffee pie?

[grantsmith1985]

Will work, did before, ok not for long but they knocked it down a bit. There is no other way in doing it tbh, better this than sitting doing nothing about it. Which is why it is so much anyway. Like you said saxx, the country needs it, its called a boycott (spell), take it away from them until they sort it out.

[Chris]

I normally put optimax in my FTO, but this week I had to lower it to normal unleaded cause the Optimax was over a quid and my tank holds 70 litres!

Chris smileys/happy.gif

[grantsmith1985]

Yer I used to only use optimax in any car, WAY to expensive now, epsecailly with 400 miles a week smileys/smiley5.gif

[saxx]

Will work, did before, ok not for long but they knocked it down a bit. There is no other way in doing it tbh, better this than sitting doing nothing about it. Which is why it is so much anyway. Like you said saxx, the country needs it, its called a boycott (spell), take it away from them until they sort it out.

theyll only increase prices as people go mad or increase them AGAIN once the dust has settled!

[grantsmith1985]

they will increase them as it starts because demand increases. but block the fuel and they will have to sort something out. what would you rather do, sit and do nothing and pay 95p a litre or block it and maybe get it lowered a bit.

[saxx]

i dont HAVE to use my car and i get good mileage from mine - sure it annoys me that petrol is 90p if not a bit more - but i dont drive a fuel drinkin beast so i dont really have much to complain about!

[DevilDamo]

damo..............banoffee pie?

where there's a fuel shortage, every form of transport fails. cars, trucks, lorry's, etc... i remember last time that the big food supermarkets werent getting their deliveries and so everybody stacked up leaving nothing left.

so, i will get my bannoffie pie tonight and i will be sorted for however the strike may last. hehe!!!

[saxx]

pmsl smileys/smiley17.gif

[Graeme]

just read bbc news and it says that people arnt panic buying but if you to any petol station in warrington theres ques all the wat down the road!! smileys/smiley5.gif

[Chris]

Hope there is enough petrol top last till Friday, so My Mum's got enough to drive me and the gf to Gatwick!

Chris smileys/happy.gif

[Chris]

I might see how much Unleaded is in Tenerife and see if they will let me bring a couple of Jerrycans of it back as Hand luggage! smileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gif

Chris smileys/happy.gif

[S9_DAN]

When i went to tobago it was 30.5p l it cost £10 to fill the tank, costs me close to £60 to fill my tank ! got no 5p off vouchers left for sainsburys any moresmileys/smiley13.gif

[Craig]

im gunna top my tank up again smileys/smiley17.gif

[starkie]

ques every where round here.

Im away 2moz! goign to Spain till thursday so im not gona bother smileys/smiley17.gif

[Craig]

u alrite then marksmileys/smiley17.gif

[G_man_GT]

Just spoke to my manager, (i work in tescos express fuel staion/shop), he said sales have been well high for today, tho when i went down there a few mins ago to top up the beast it wasnt the busiest i've ever seen it but i still had to queue for like 10 mins tho smileys/smiley11.gif

[Craig]

so g_man whats the news are there really gunna be blockages? are u likely to run out?

[Yates]

huge ques at tesco today in newton aycliffe, not so many ques around in darlo tho, bp is the same price as morrisons n tesco at the moment

[G_man_GT]

We always run out at my tesco express even on a normal day cos esso are never fussed about filling our tanks, i reckon we will run out at a couple of days this week, infact i guarantee it, tho esso or the hoyer transport/delivery company would never let word out that there were any blockages going/not going to happen cos its not in their interests. Else if they tell people that there will be blockages then poeple will panic buy and if they dont happen they they could be taken to court for trying to "Glorify" the situtaion to boost sales if you will.

Long story short - we wont know for a few days yet probably but you can usually get a bit of info by speaking to the drivers, im in work tomorrow so i'll c what i can find out from the esso/hoyer guys, they're prob the best bet for insider knowledge smileys/smiley2.gif

[saxoseb]

hey people, theres a place near me (Watford) that is still doing fuel for 89.9 believe it or not, so i think a full tank will be done!

[Craig]

u lucky barsteward hahah

[pug_boe]

grrrr i just qued 30mins for petrol in morrisons smileys/smiley19.gif every1 is panic buying buy my light was flashing i needed petrol not them lol

[w_jd_w]

there is suposed 2 be blockages from wed i heard