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BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

I suppose I better stock up on my daily dose of commuting muppets as well

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

28th Mar 2012 8:55pm

bm52

Member Since: 04 Apr 2010
Location: Kent
Posts: 2189

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Havana

shhh - don't tell BPman but i had to fill up with shell v power

BM52

28th Mar 2012 9:15pm

richuk

Member Since: 13 Nov 2011
Location: Dorset
Posts: 201

Thank goodness this is what my daily drive relies upon!

( John Deere E Gator)

Rich

semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat

28th Mar 2012 9:24pm

BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

bm52 wrote:
shhh - don't tell BPman but i had to fill up with shell v power

I spit on you

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

29th Mar 2012 8:05am

roamingman

Member Since: 15 Mar 2012
Location: nearly thier
Posts: 152

Yes Goverment say keep filling up when just over half full, good idea, but remember for every litre you buy they get another 90p in tax. Live Life Ti'l You Die
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29th Mar 2012 2:29pm

Zagato
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Member Since: 08 Jan 2011
Location: Billingshurst West Sussex
Posts: 5013

Esso garage now dried up as well, that's 2

not sure if BP is still going, I doubt it, it's the busiest usually

29th Mar 2012 3:19pm

GREENI

Member Since: 22 Aug 2010
Location: staffs
Posts: 10381

No fuel? Stay in bed. Problem solved.

29th Mar 2012 3:22pm

22900013A

Member Since: 23 Dec 2010
Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 3149

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Keswick Green

BigRuss wrote:
ericvv wrote:
So are fuel prices as a consequence of that going further up in the UK?

They will be to pay for the extra pay, holiday and less hours the tanker drivers want.

I remember when they threatened this a year or 2 ago and it was released that tanker drivers get paid somewhere between £50,000 & £70,000 a year. But that is not enough for the dangerous job they do

Hell that a lot more than most house hold incomes in the UK!

I think London tube drivers get about £50,000 a year and they say that an offer of £800 to work during the Olympics

Thats total cack, they don't earn anything like that - £45K at the absolute most and the majority are on a lot less. Yet more media hype to try and dissuade the publc from supporting them. The tanker drivers are considering strike action simply to keep what they have now, nowhere has it been said (except in the lying media of course) that they want anything more than they have now. Its all a race to the bottom and its the drivers who lose out, as well as the rest of the everyday people - the oil companies and the government will be just as well off if not better off no matter what happens - how much do you think the tax take was over the past couple of days due to panic buying? Absolutely crazy. Instead of moaning about tanker drivers wages we should be objecting to MPs salaries, and fat cat bonuses at the banks and so on - after all, its those who got us all into this mess, not tanker drivers!

29th Mar 2012 7:42pm

richuk

Member Since: 13 Nov 2011
Location: Dorset
Posts: 201

I think all this talk about the extra tax revenue generated by the current surge in demand is absolute boll*x. Extra revenue would require a greater overall consumption over the coming weeks and months. All this is just a short term blip. The reality is that the tax revenue will almost certainly be lower in the medium term than it would have been due to some people wishing to conserve the fuel that they have and therefore use less than they would normally. Rich

semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat

29th Mar 2012 7:56pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20354

22900013A wrote:
BigRuss wrote:
ericvv wrote:
So are fuel prices as a consequence of that going further up in the UK?

They will be to pay for the extra pay, holiday and less hours the tanker drivers want.

I remember when they threatened this a year or 2 ago and it was released that tanker drivers get paid somewhere between £50,000 & £70,000 a year. But that is not enough for the dangerous job they do

Hell that a lot more than most house hold incomes in the UK!

I think London tube drivers get about £50,000 a year and they say that an offer of £800 to work during the Olympics

Thats total cack, they don't earn anything like that - £45K at the absolute most and the majority are on a lot less. Yet more media hype to try and dissuade the publc from supporting them. The tanker drivers are considering strike action simply to keep what they have now, nowhere has it been said (except in the lying media of course) that they want anything more than they have now. Its all a race to the bottom and its the drivers who lose out, as well as the rest of the everyday people - the oil companies and the government will be just as well off if not better off no matter what happens - how much do you think the tax take was over the past couple of days due to panic buying? Absolutely crazy. Instead of moaning about tanker drivers wages we should be objecting to MPs salaries, and fat cat bonuses at the banks and so on - after all, its those who got us all into this mess, not tanker drivers!

And of course to add to that as well as having the skills to drive such lorries they have the dangers of effectively towing a flammable bomb on a trailer. I wouldn't fancy it would you?....

29th Mar 2012 7:58pm

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

bm52 wrote:
shhh - don't tell BPman but i had to fill up with shell v power

BigRuss attends BP too

there's a few more BP illuminati on here too

29th Mar 2012 8:40pm

22900013A

Member Since: 23 Dec 2010
Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 3149

konabikes11 wrote:
22900013A wrote:
BigRuss wrote:
ericvv wrote:
So are fuel prices as a consequence of that going further up in the UK?

They will be to pay for the extra pay, holiday and less hours the tanker drivers want.

I remember when they threatened this a year or 2 ago and it was released that tanker drivers get paid somewhere between £50,000 & £70,000 a year. But that is not enough for the dangerous job they do

Hell that a lot more than most house hold incomes in the UK!

I think London tube drivers get about £50,000 a year and they say that an offer of £800 to work during the Olympics

Thats total cack, they don't earn anything like that - £45K at the absolute most and the majority are on a lot less. Yet more media hype to try and dissuade the publc from supporting them. The tanker drivers are considering strike action simply to keep what they have now, nowhere has it been said (except in the lying media of course) that they want anything more than they have now. Its all a race to the bottom and its the drivers who lose out, as well as the rest of the everyday people - the oil companies and the government will be just as well off if not better off no matter what happens - how much do you think the tax take was over the past couple of days due to panic buying? Absolutely crazy. Instead of moaning about tanker drivers wages we should be objecting to MPs salaries, and fat cat bonuses at the banks and so on - after all, its those who got us all into this mess, not tanker drivers!

And of course to add to that as well as having the skills to drive such lorries they have the dangers of effectively towing a flammable bomb on a trailer. I wouldn't fancy it would you?....

Can't say I would - I drive a lorry which cannot possibly explode and its stressful enough. Some claim the tankers cannot explode either, but I wouldn't like to be the one to put it to the test.

29th Mar 2012 8:44pm

noworries4x4

Member Since: 24 Dec 2010
Location: Newton Abbot Devon
Posts: 1195

Light goes on I fill up 350 miles later light goes on i fill up easy, except today leaving London on the A4 heading for Wales tonight 7 count them 7 stations closed out of fuel. Got some near Hounslow in a BP but had to wait and wait in a very long line and bloody £1.51 a litre when i got there. Got enough to get me home tomorrow night so i am alright Jack If everything is under control you are not going fast enough.

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29th Mar 2012 9:07pm

JSG

Member Since: 12 Jul 2007
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 2412

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

Well I got home from two weeks away and found the 110 with a full tank of diesel - SWMBO had been out and filled it up for me yesterday

John

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2011 Tdci 110 CSW XS

31st Mar 2012 5:14pm

warren

Member Since: 14 Oct 2009
Location: East Lancs.
Posts: 903

2009 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Santorini Black

I'm just below a quarter of a tank... Three local stations dried up as of 5pm this afternoon (Saturday 31st march).

There's a local Shell garage which has diesel, but Big Black doesn't seem to like Shell that much, plus the price has mysteriously gone up another few pence per litre so I'm very reluctant to go there. Although I may need to if my regular garage doesn't get any derv tomorrow.

My major beef with all panic buying is that earlier this week I had a walk along the gridlocked road near the local Morrisons petrol station, spying at petrol guages (very hot day, lots of windows wound down) and 90% of the cars queuing up had at least 3/4 of a tank left. And I'm willing to put money on the fact a lot of them cars will only be used for a five mile round trip to commute to work every day! Yet me who relies on my car for work now has to struggle to get fuel, because I couldn't afford to waste a couple of hours to top my tank up midweek!

(yes I know I could just use Shell, but its the principle... As mentioned above)

31st Mar 2012 11:25pm

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