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The aviation side of things is all that will keep the Shell brand,although all jet fuel will be supplied by Essar.
I think part of the deal includes retail outlets.
I've probably got a 5 year window,time to move on.
I noticed they are not selling Higher Olefins or Lubs, It suppose they can be split off easily being on the other side of the road. I doesn't include retail outlets, yet.It does
not include any of Shell's UK Retail sites, the Shell higher olefins plant and
alcohols units, the lubricant oils blending plant, lubricants marketing
business, Shell aviation operations at airports, non-local marine business,
marine lubricants, commercial road transport marketing businesses, bitumen
marketing business or the Shell technology centre at Thornton.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »By raiding the pension funds though. Something which we will come back to haunt GB once the full Treasury documents are released in due course.
So they had to raid the pension funds to stick with Tory financial discipline, mmm.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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I agree with StevieJ and Lemonjelly :eek:
On a related note:In the Times today – Gala Coral: The auction of the Tote has suffered a setback amid rumours that Gala Coral, the favourite, had failed to submit a formal bid because of concerns over recent trading and pension liabilities at the betting group
Oh dear, Oh dear. So, it looks like the privatisation of state assets which was supposed to raise some cash from behind the sofa isn't going too well.
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.0 -
Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »You missed the fact that he has left in place the NI rise AND increased VAT.
And the country's overspend will still be well over £100bn. And the total credit card bill is approaching £1 trillion.
Maybe if Labour hadn't !!!!ed so much of it away we might not have needed it.0 -
I agree with StevieJ and Lemonjelly :eek:
On a related note:
Oh dear, Oh dear. So, it looks like the privatisation of state assets which was supposed to raise some cash from behind the sofa isn't going too well.
:eek:
Do you feel dirty? Or better for admitting it?;)
While I'm here, more boolsheet from the incumbents:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3145624It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
So it appears the UK needs to cut taxes. More public sector cuts then.
Wish the lefties would make their mind up, they keep banging on about corporations not paying enough tax, and then when one decides to take their ball away due to a tax rise, they start moaning that that is also wrong. Make up you minds what you want please.
Oh dear I have just chanced upon this
By squeezing the maximum amount of tax revenue from Britain’s oil and gas assets, Gordon Brown is putting further offshore investment at risk, George Osborne has warned.
On a visit to Aberdeen, the Shadow Chancellor accused Mr Brown of squandering North Sea assets for short term financial gain.
Addressing the Subsea UK conference before flying out to visit offshore facilities, the Shadow Chancellor said: “The Chancellor’s short term focus on squeezing the maximum amount of revenue from oil and gas is putting at risk the investment we need in order to get the most out of the North Sea.”
Accusing the Treasury of failing to understand that the UK Continental Shelf is a mature resource competing for investment in a fiercely competitive global market, he went on: “They don’t recognise that investment in the North Sea cannot be taken for granted when there are potentially more profitable opportunities in West Africa, Mexico or Brazil. In short, Gordon Brown risks denying future generations the benefits our generation has enjoyed from the North Sea. He’s more interested in cash today than investment tomorrow. The result is that Britain’s North Sea inheritance is in danger of being squandered."
http://m.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2007/02/Gordon_Brown_is_squandering_North_Sea_oil_assets.aspx'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
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