Is it time to fill up

[Millay]

My mate has just come home saying he has filled up feaqring there is another protest.

should i also be filling up scared of a protest?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/4483881.stm

or is it just a damp squib...

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by Millay

My mate has just come home saying he has filled up feaqring there is another protest.

should i also be filling up scared of a protest?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/4483881.stm

or is it just a damp squib...

I filled up last night, though I often do anyway. No point taking any chances if your job depends on it.

The government say don't panic buy, as supplies won't be interrupted even slightly. In which case, you may as well panic buy anyway just in case they are lying, because if they are NOT lying, then panic buying won't do any harm, since supplies won't be interrupted and will remain plentiful!

That's my logic anyway.

[Ramrod]

@ scrotnig

[Millay]

Originally Posted by scrotnig

I filled up last night, though I often do anyway. No point taking any chances if your job depends on it.

The government say don't panic buy, as supplies won't be interrupted even slightly. In which case, you may as well panic buy anyway just in case they are lying, because if they are NOT lying, then panic buying won't do any harm, since supplies won't be interrupted and will remain plentiful!

That's my logic anyway.

Theres logic in there somewhere just gotta find it

[paulyoung666]

if it does happen then work are supposedly going to ferry us in by minibus , the logic of that is we HAD a diesel store on site , the problem is , it has been taken from the site because it was not needed anymore , couldnt organise a p!ss up in a brewery

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

if it does happen then work are supposedly going to ferry us in by minibus , the logic of that is we HAD a diesel store on site , the problem is , it has been taken from the site because it was not needed anymore , couldnt organise a p!ss up in a brewery

I wish I worked in a brewery

[bob_builder]

Last time everybody (including the government) were caught out and surprised at how much of an impact a few protests caused.

This time, I imagine the government has contingency plans and will not let it get to the same state.

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by bob_builder

Last time everybody (including the government) were caught out and surprised at how much of an impact a few protests caused.

This time, I imagine the government has contingency plans and will not let it get to the same state.

No, they SAID they had contingency plans. They also said Saddam Hussein had WMDs and I didn't believe that either.

[bmxbandit]

heh, i filled up yesterday... could probably stretch a tank full to well over a month if i'm careful...



(apologies for smugness...)

I'm ****ed, £40's worth of petrol last me a week if I'm carefull.

Means I wont be able to get to work, unless I did what I did last time and fill up at 4am.....set off as I watched the BP tanker go past where I lived

[Nugget]

I use a quarter of a tank every weekday getting to work and back, so I think I'd be a little knackered.

Having said that though, I've always said that, if I didn't have any petrol / not enough money to get petrol / nowhere was selling petrol, I'd just ring in sick anyway - there's no way I'm walking 35 miles to work

[bob_builder]

I had just started a new job that was 65 miles away, in my first week, when the last protests occurred!

I managed to get to work for the first 3 days but could not get any petrol for the last two days that week. Luckily, I was mostly reading documentation so they let me work from home for those two days!

A tank of Deisel lasts me just over a week, but then again this will probably come to nothing...

Filled up last night as the BP station down the road had no fuel which i thought was strange as its was only shell that was being picketed.

2 cars full to the brim will last us about 2 months if we need it too

Originally Posted by Millay

My mate has just come home saying he has filled up feaqring there is another protest.

should i also be filling up scared of a protest?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/4483881.stm

or is it just a damp squib...

Who knows - but I'd rather not get caught out with a nearly empty tank if/when it happens.

[In fact, last time it happened I managed to fill up both cars + 20L jerrycan before the panic started which, with avoiding journeys where possible, saw us through the entire protest until fuel supplies were back to normal.]

And also in the news today:

Increased world oil prices have helped boost BP's profits over the past three months, the firm has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4484345.stm

Great timing...