Fuel strikes

Jojo_Tate

I just queued for half an hour and was only allowed £10-worth of fuel. I've got to cross two counties this weekend to visit friends!
Anyone got tips for dealing with the fuel strike? I would just encourage everyone to car-share, which I do all week to get to work, as it means I only need to fill up only half as often as before, and it saves me several hundreds pounds every year.

rev_henry

There is no fuel strike yet. The problem is idiots panic buying. As we've done to death on several other threads.

Sgt_Pepper_2

Jojo_Tate wrote: »

I just queued for half an hour and was only allowed £10-worth of fuel. I've got to cross two counties this weekend to visit friends!
Anyone got tips for dealing with the fuel strike? I would just encourage everyone to car-share, which I do all week to get to work, as it means I only need to fill up only half as often as before, and it saves me several hundreds pounds every year.

I've got to cross two counties to get to work, so probably won't be able to go because of people like you!

MX5huggy

Who measures distances in how many counties you cross, it's not the 16th century you know. You don't have to pay to use the turnpikes at the borders.

Go to one of the many petrol stations that don't have cues.

VfM4meplse

This whole business is just getting silly. Cast your mind back to autumn 2000 - we survived that, after all.

Congrats to Maude et al for being total numpties :T. Come to think of it, doesn't he have to cross a couple of counties to get to Westminster ?

ani_26

There's nowt so funny as folk panic buying and causing crises. The one which makes me laugh the most, is xmas. The shops are shut for one day of the year, ( and not even every shop, depending on your religion, ) but people still buy thousands of loaves of bread and pints of milk. To what purpose?

Tips for dealing with fuel strike?

Don't use your car?

Don't we WANT something to be done about the price of fuel in this country? although i know the strike isn't about the cost of fuel, it gets my full backing, whatever the consequences.

Looking back at a post i made a year ago on this forum, the price of fuel has increased by 20p per litre, in twelve months. I work that out to be a 20% increase, in one year? Have salaries increased by 20%?


How many more people does it take to force out of employment?

Think yourselves all lucky, for what you have.

mikey72

ani_26 wrote: »

........... The one which makes me laugh the most, is xmas. The shops are shut for one day of the year, ( and not even every shop, depending on your religion, ) but people still buy thousands of loaves of bread and pints of milk. To what purpose?..............

I do it so I have milk and bread.
And they rest of the groceries for the best part of the week.

And hopefully it's obvious why to everyone else, but if not, it's so I can sit down with a glass of wine at lunch, watch the films in the afternoon, glass of wine with the evening meal, liberally interspaced with glasses of wine with family and friends who drop in, also not on their way to the shops, with one poor sap on coke though.
And when I drink so much I'm still over the limit in the morning, I don't want to drive to tescos' for the milk for the tea, and the bread for the toast.
And the rest of the spirits and beer that gets drunk over christmas. Do I want all that alcohol consumed by a hoard of shoppers doing a daily run?
No, I want them all at home, not drinking and driving.
So stock up the trolleys, enjoy yourself, and don't drive.
You've got freezers, you don't need to go out for the best part of a week. You don't have to go to tescos just because they're open on boxing day.

Mr_Toad

Jojo_Tate wrote: »

I just queued for half an hour and was only allowed £10-worth of fuel. I've got to cross two counties this weekend to visit friends!
Anyone got tips for dealing with the fuel strike? I would just encourage everyone to car-share, which I do all week to get to work, as it means I only need to fill up only half as often as before, and it saves me several hundreds pounds every year.

You *have* to visit friends? I bet you could reorganize if you wanted to.

Heaven forbid anyone is in any way inconvenienced by people exercising their democratic right to industrial action.

It's a small price to pay to live in a free and democratic society.

pinkteapot

masonn wrote: »

Heaven forbid anyone is in any way inconvenienced by people exercising their democratic right to industrial action.

We're not being inconvenienced by people striking (yet). We're being inconvenienced by a government that seems hell bent on creating as much panic as possible.

mikey72

masonn wrote: »

...............Heaven forbid anyone is in any way inconvenienced by people exercising their democratic right to industrial action............

So no chance of bringing slavery back then?

Notmyrealname

Jojo_Tate wrote: »

I just queued for half an hour and was only allowed £10-worth of fuel. I've got to cross two counties this weekend to visit friends!
Anyone got tips for dealing with the fuel strike?

What fuel strike? There hasn't even been an announcement of one yet, let alone a strike taking place.