That's very true Mike
We don't mind paying a bit more for petrol
As then Alan gets to keep in work
And the bad news is ............................
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We don't mind paying a bit more for petrol
As then Alan gets to keep in work
Well having first hand at this, both camps have lazy gits in them.
I work with some great people from all over the world, who get p***** off with the lazy ones. Last week an Eastern European got fired for smoking in an area with high fume issues. The signs were in English and he said he could not understand. Funny enough he filled out his cscs card and his other forms easy enough. Oh and it was a Latvian site manager which gave him his marching orders too lol.
Last year on a central London site, they were struggling to get a general labourer ( that's a floor sweeper and brick carrier dogs body ) for £14 hour. They were offering up to 10 hrs a day and 5 days a week. Yes £700 a week !! They never did fill the three jobs they had. People don't like getting dirty and doing hard graft these days.
I work with some great people from all over the world, who get p***** off with the lazy ones. Last week an Eastern European got fired for smoking in an area with high fume issues. The signs were in English and he said he could not understand. Funny enough he filled out his cscs card and his other forms easy enough. Oh and it was a Latvian site manager which gave him his marching orders too lol.
Last year on a central London site, they were struggling to get a general labourer ( that's a floor sweeper and brick carrier dogs body ) for £14 hour. They were offering up to 10 hrs a day and 5 days a week. Yes £700 a week !! They never did fill the three jobs they had. People don't like getting dirty and doing hard graft these days.
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Hand out benefits yes, BUT
In return work for them
Litter picking
Etc
No money for nothing
Hand out benefits yes, BUT
In return work for them
Litter picking
Etc
No money for nothing
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Hi Grumpy, I do agree with us being ripped off but how is it that the USA have oil reserves under Yellow Stone Park (Montana) enough to supply the world ( or so it's estimated) for hundreds of years yet they still meddle in Arad affairs making it difficult for the rest of us to strike decent arrangements, I'm thinking maybe the good old USA are saving it for a rainy day when the rest of us actually can't afford to buy it anywhere. Don't get me wrong, I don't blame them but makes me wonder why they hide behind the old excuse of, "it can't be drilled for in a conservation area." Well I'm now thinking the jocks may just be thinking the same and although we helped get North sea oil out we'll be clobbered there as well if they go independent, after all what ever happened to the promise of cheap petrol/fuel when it was first discovered, we never saw that did we, the oil industry are running scared of the alternative power lobby and rightly so cos like everything else in this world it's all about the world economy not single countries any more save USA, China, maybe. Of course this is IMO only. Maybe I'm wrong, if so someone please put me right.
Rha, Roy.
Rha, Roy.
AS much as that Mark, that will be an increase
ours 
A bit confusing for me. The oil companies have to charge a certain amount to extract the crude and then refine it. Anything above that is profit. When the price of oil went up, people had to drive less or just pay the higher price. When these profits shot up, Exxon was reporting BILLIONS in profits PER QUARTER OF THE YEAR. Now the price is low. People are driving much more that ever because they can afford it now. The consumption has INCREASED. How can oil workers be losing their jobs with the INCREASED consumption? The BILLIONS in profits that were going to the oil companies are now staying in the pockets of the consumers allowing for increased spending due to greater disposable income. The only thing that has changed is the decreased profits of the oil companies. What a pity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Frankie
Its pretty simple @FRANKIE, these companies are in a certain business and want to make a profit from doing so, as every business wants to and in the mean time, that creates jobs for people.
Put it this way, as you know, I enjoy a beer and buy it from my mate here in Holland at $150 a barrel and then, all of a sudden, I can get the same beer from Germany for $30 a barrel.
What do I do? I start to buy (import) from Germany and so do all the other people in this town, so my mate has to stack his barrels (as in stacking drilling rigs) and fire most of the people working for him so as to have the funds to sit back and wait until his barrels are worth at least what he paid for them to break even.
Put it this way, as you know, I enjoy a beer and buy it from my mate here in Holland at $150 a barrel and then, all of a sudden, I can get the same beer from Germany for $30 a barrel.
What do I do? I start to buy (import) from Germany and so do all the other people in this town, so my mate has to stack his barrels (as in stacking drilling rigs) and fire most of the people working for him so as to have the funds to sit back and wait until his barrels are worth at least what he paid for them to break even.
No one watching the past week’s oil price moves could be more smug than a Scottish unionist. As the price of Brent has plunged, many will be glad that Scotland did not decide to go it alone.
Economic predictions by the Scottish government formed the backbone of the case for independence. They rested on the assumption that a barrel of crude would fetch $110, which it had in the summer of 2014. The commodity’s price has since crumbled, falling below $30 over the past week.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader, has admitted the party got it wrong. If Scotland was now an independent economy, it would be facing the same kind of fiscal threat as many oil-exporting nations.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ralds-the-beginning-of-a-global-downturn.html
The only problem they have in Wales though, is how many sheep can they get in a barrel?
I bet @miller1098 is already working on this one....
I bet @miller1098 is already working on this one....
Want to pay less for your fuel? Want live in Venezuela? Not even at £0.01 per litre ......... yes 1p a litre.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/fina...n-the-world-to-buy-petrol/ss-BBoF9m4#image=42
Tony.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/fina...n-the-world-to-buy-petrol/ss-BBoF9m4#image=42
Tony.
Old news mate, country is in melt down, price of petrol has just gone up for the first time in 20 years.
People are waiting out side shops with a numbered ticket just to get a loaf of bread.
Yes I know mate, my nephew was out there recently with work. The lad who got out of Libya from your company's air strip.
It's like hearing of people having a wheel barrow full of worthless money just to by bread, Nigeria, Zimbabwe etc.
Tony.
It's like hearing of people having a wheel barrow full of worthless money just to by bread, Nigeria, Zimbabwe etc.
Tony.
That is why Germany started a war.....
Oh those Russians Just when I get my wee 2.8 z