Petrol Strikes

[littlefeller]

people who strike during a recession (or anytime come to that) should be sacked. to me its simple, if your unhappy with your job then change jobs.
the fuel strike wont effect me as my lude is sitting on the drive with no mot, and the tax runns out end march. cant be bothered taking it for an mot just yet. think it may need new tyres

[Gayno]

Lots of folk queuing up at Tesco in Bradley Stoke tonight, and a couple of arguements over queue jumping as well(not involved,shame they did not turn to punchups I would have liked a bit of light entertainment while I was waiting!)

Should've gone at 5pm then! I drove straight up to a pump, job done!

[paul bristol uk]

http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job ... ver/Salary
Well they could always quit it sounds like a jobby paid job!

Lots of folk queuing up at Tesco in Bradley Stoke tonight, and a couple of arguements over queue jumping as well(not involved,shame they did not turn to punchups I would have liked a bit of light entertainment while I was waiting!)

Should've gone at 5pm then! I drove straight up to a pump, job done!

What did you buy a tin of lighter fuel for the green machine?

[2lude]

people who strike during a recession (or anytime come to that) should be sacked. to me its simple, if your unhappy with your job then change jobs.
the fuel strike wont effect me as my lude is sitting on the drive with no mot, and the tax runns out end march. cant be bothered taking it for an mot just yet. think it may need new tyres

I strongly disagree with that unions and strikes are their to protect you and me and stop large organisations putting profit before lives and health

from my brief understanding the reason they are striking is because the driver's of the trucks get finned if they are late on a delivery so they end up takeing unnecessary risks to save money those risks put us all in danger and its the company policy which has led to this situation and if i were said driver i would also be tempted to carry on when i shouldnt due to the financial pressure they are put under

i know we have gone over zealous with the health and safety jobby but its better that than us being screwed over for the sake of profit margins

strikes always coincide when the conservatives have power as the conservatives will look after the rich and wealthy and screw over the working man this is simple fact and they will try to sugar coat it for the average person and try to make them feel like they are doing them a favour by screwing them

on a separate note the only real way to fix any recession is to change the fractional reserve banking system which is fundamentally flawed but has been used from the dawn of money boom and bust is inevitable with the current system regardless of which politician is in power at the time we just blame them or the banks now its more the banks doing but without changing the world-wide banking system and reforming money we will have a more boom and bust and every one will blame each other the bigger the boom the bigger the bust

the most sensible politician would cause a recession as soon as they could to balance things out and do so regally to try to keep a balance however no one would ever do this as they would be public enemy no1

so for going off topic

[paul bristol uk]

strikes always coincide when the conservatives have power

Last Tanker Drvers strike was in 2000,care to remind me who was in office then!

[lxstuart]

plus the fact that whilst Labour where in power, Petrol prices rose by ~60p per litre

I started driving whilst labour where in power, and I remember 70p per litre

[PerformanceAutoworks]

Filled up the Legend this morning on my way in to work....not cos I was in a panic I hasten to add... purely because the fuel light has been on for two days where I couldn't be bothered to queue up. Also off to Pembrey this weekend so figured I may as fill her up ready.

Had to laugh... forecourt was queued up but for some reason nobody was on one side of the pumps.... thought sod it...went onto pump and started fueling up. A guy got out of a car came over and bitched at me for jumping the queue. I asked why he hadn't driven up to the pump I was using if he was already in the queue and he replied that he thought they were diesel only. I pointed at the green nozzles and the 3 big signs that stated "NO DIESEL" (cos they had run out) - I suggested politely that he learn to read and to go and sit quietly for me to finish fueling up.

The cashier/attendant is actually a friend of mine and he told me that there were 20+ cars sat waiting and spilling out onto the main road waiting for him to open up the pumps at 6.30am. One guy actually dragged his family out to get all four cars there so he could fill them all up!!!

Tis all totally and utterly pathetic

[lewd lude lover]

+ 1 too all

evil empire no matter who's in charge.

[judderod]

seriously guys. have you not thought about the wider picture here?

We have just had a pump raping budget.

It is the last day or so of national big business trading for this financial year.

The Prime Minister has urged us to 'take what precautions we may' in otherwords 'fill up pricks!'

can you not see that we are being manipulated easier than a 15 year old on GHB at a house party?
so what reasons could this happen?

the government want extra tax duty from the fuel refiners. by boosting sales in the last few days, before the tax hike has settled in, the profit on the quarter goes up so they will pay a lot more tax.

the last quarter of last year our economy shrank SHRANK OVER CHRISTMAS
the government want us to be shocked at the audacity of the drivers and fill up as soon as possible. spending our way out of recession.

This spending spree will show very favorably in the next quarters figures wont it? helpful...

The fuel refiners have a back log of petrolium to get shot of because we are all a bit shy of spending at the pumps (this jobby goes off dude!) so the government are giving them a helping hand.

and finally, the poor drivers are pissed off and fancy bringing the country to a halt in the middle of a double dip recession/buttfunk, thus earning the whole nations anger. anger that is rightly directed toward the wankers in power. (im neither con/lab/dem)


now call me a raging consipracy nut but does none of the timing of this 'strike' you as strange?

^ What he said.

[paul bristol uk]

What don't you believe nice Mr Cameron its all that Clegg chap and his green credentals who wants us all walking or riding bikes

David Cameron has confirmed that he opted for a large luxury car, rather than a less polluting model, when he decided to ditch his government-provided vehicle.

His admission came as he announced plans to commit the Conservatives to targets that would require cuts in the emissions of greenhouse gases from traffic on British roads.

As leader of the opposition, Cameron is entitled to a government car.

But he has decided to hand back his Vauxhall Omega and instead leased commercially a more environmentally-friendly Lexus GS 450h with a "hybrid" engine which gives off less carbon in exhaust.

However, he decided to turn down a government-provided Toyota Prius, whose emissions at 104g per kilometre are significantly lower than the 186g given off by the Lexus.

Cameron said that he had opted for the larger car because the Prius was not big enough to carry all his entourage, meaning he would often have had to take two cars on visits.

"My current car that the government gave me is 276g, so the car I am getting is going to be a huge decline from that," Cameron told Sky News.

"My problem is that often when I go on tour, I have a lot of people in the car with me and I found on the tour when I used a Prius it meant we had to have two cars rather than one, so I don't think it would be very good for the environment."

Cameron is to commit the Tories to a target of cutting emissions to 100g a kilometre from new cars by 2022 and from all cars on British roads by 2030.

A Labour Party spokesman said Cameron was "a complete hypocrite".


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