Petrol or diesel...at any price ? £1.10 will be cheap

C_Ronaldo

surely the strike in scotland wouldnt affect us in england

goldspanners

possibly,they may try to spread out the supply throughout the whole country.
it will affect some in the north of england.

TRUSt_NO_1_2

goldspanners wrote: »

possibly,they may try to spread out the supply throughout the whole country.
it will affect some in the north of england.

I was going to post OP about 4 weeks ago,but decided not to as I knew it would be deleted or moved (AND ridiculed of course..which does not bother me)
When I read the article on BP Scottish refinery...I thought..it's starting...

There have already been recent instances of two refineries shutting down, in USA I think, for what is believed to be crude shortages.The excuse given was unplanned maintenance.
China have been taking increased amounts of crude oil and refined oil to stock up for the Olympics,and there is a global shortage of oil that will get progressively worse.

I find it hard to believe BP would shut down a refinery for one month over a pension dispute.Surely the loss in revenue would be massive.They are printing money at the moment.If they can't afford a pension scheme ...who can ?

My suspicious mind tells me that they are taking this opportunity to blame a pension dispute (and maybe also get a cheap pension deal done) in order to resolve a potential near term shortage in crude supplies.Shut the refinery down and let stocks recover.

TRUSt_NO_1_2

Hey_Dude wrote: »

Nah the OP's escaped from the Inflation/Savings Boards here and was trying to find the MSE dating thread here and has got blown out and ended up on the Grabbit Board....

Duder

Put your right hand back on your mouse Dude

Conor_3

It won't affect Northern England or Scotland either. They'll just send the tankers to the other refineries in the UK. OTOH, there's going to be a few well paid short term Hazchem tanker driver jobs available.

Keith

No petrol? I have to fill up every 2 days :eek:

Ah it only effects those in the North, ha it's grim up there

But as Conor said, they'll take on agency staff to supply the fuel from around the UK

devizes18193

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Fuel-strike-39will-bleed-pumps.4000827.jp