Saving fuel

The crisis of the week has been a shortage of fuel at petrol stations. “There is no need for people to go out and panic buy”, said Paul Scully, the small business minister after Johnson had said the same. These set motorists off queuing. BP had shut some petrol stations and blamed a shortage of heavy goods vehicle drivers. Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, blamed “one of the haulage associations” for leaking details of a government meeting at which fuel industry people expressed concerns that fuel stocks were at two-thirds of normal levels. But Rod McKenzie, the MD of policy and public affairs at the Road Haulage Association, said it wasn’t him. The government suddenly said it would grant 5,000 visas for people in the EU to come as lorry drivers for three months, even though there is a shortage HGV drivers in the EU. Then the government said that soldiers would help with driving tests for HGV drivers, held up by the DVLA; next it said soldiers would drive petrol tankers, after a bit of practise.
 
Lurching from one crisis to another! Pee-up and brewery come to mind.
 
ktnez99 said:
The crisis of the week has been a shortage of fuel at petrol stations. “There is no need for people to go out and panic buy”, said Paul Scully, the small business minister after Johnson had said the same. These set motorists off queuing. BP had shut some petrol stations and blamed a shortage of heavy goods vehicle drivers. Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, blamed “one of the haulage associations” for leaking details of a government meeting at which fuel industry people expressed concerns that fuel stocks were at two-thirds of normal levels. But Rod McKenzie, the MD of policy and public affairs at the Road Haulage Association, said it wasn’t him. The government suddenly said it would grant 5,000 visas for people in the EU to come as lorry drivers for three months, even though there is a shortage HGV drivers in the EU. Then the government said that soldiers would help with driving tests for HGV drivers, held up by the DVLA; next it said soldiers would drive petrol tankers, after a bit of practise.
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All that aside, these are not Infantry Soldiers, they are ADR and HGV qualified personnel from across the 3 Services that do this for a living. All that is required is some minor adaption.
 
Another twist in the fuel saga, surprised its not been mentioned before
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/p...-aease-emergency-fleet-tankers-government-122

Possibly too many drivers allowed leave at the same time, might have contributed ?

i'm doubtful if we'll ever really know all the reasons as to why / how this has happened - and maybe an underlying agenda.
People are always ready to apportion blame as we know, and have seen many a time.
 
Interesting article @Toby and your " and maybe an underlying agenda" comment is probably truer than you think, more population conditioning and fear.
 
Toby said:
Another twist in the fuel saga, surprised its not been mentioned before
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/p...-aease-emergency-fleet-tankers-government-122

Possibly too many drivers allowed leave at the same time, might have contributed ?

i'm doubtful if we'll ever really know all the reasons as to why / how this has happened - and maybe an underlying agenda.
People are always ready to apportion blame as we know, and have seen many a time.
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Smoke and mirrors, always has been and always will be. Agenda .........
 
As Supertramp said, "Crisis, What Crisis?"

  • Energy crisis - Wholesale prices for gas/oil jump through the roof (temporarily) but because the Gov had shut down and de-commissioned bulk storage facilities there is no buffer to smooth the cost. Consumer pays.
  • CO2 shortage - Same issue as above plus driver shortage partly caused by Brexit (no EU drivers here now). Consumer pays.
  • Fuel crisis - Idiot Gov comments saying there is no shortage knowing full well that Mr & Mrs Dipstick will receive the reverse psychology being used by Gov and queue at fuel stations blocking the roads. Not enough HGV drivers, too many HGV drivers, Reserve Fuel tankers mysteriously appear to save the day courtesy of Gov.
  • E10 fuel - covered by far greater minds than mine elsewhere in the forum but in "essence" (haha) another massive con to sell watered (ethanoled) down crap, and push us towards Electric Cars. Consumer pays.
  • Electric Cars - How are they going to dispose of the highly toxic battery packs when they die? Overpriced, overrated and over here.
  • COVID - do not get me started on the biggest misrepresentation of statistics I have seen in my lifetime. Forced to stay at home, cannot travel, COVID passports, used and excuse for appalling service from just about everyone, "i'ts because of COVID" Used to defer my Cancer Operations for 9-months!!!!!
  • Vaccine - untested (long-term), unproven. One minute our saviour next, "you can still get COVID and pass it on" but of course "it will not be as bad. Great new! trouble is what are the long-term effects and the majority feel forced to be double-jabbed or is it triple-jabbed now!
  • Brexit - Whether you are a Remainer or Leaver, a complete F-up from start to Still not Finished, causing in part, a lot of the above.
  • Stamp duty holiday - Artificially stimulated the housing market shooting prices up so the so-called "saving" was completely negated by the rise in prices.
  • SEISS Grants to help us poor self-employed to get by - nice thought until you realise that it is taxable, not treated as income by mortgage lenders and if you took any of them you raised your head above the HMRC's wall and mortgage lenders would not lend.
  • Furlough - originally "to grant leave to a soldier" 80% of this number 70% of that, all taxable income. Left people who wanted to work unable to, and people who wanted to skive able to.
  • Working from home revolution - for those of us who have done this for 30 plus years, not a problem. For the majority of employees a great excuse to take the kids to school (oh sorry they were shut), skive off and provide sh1t service as their management cannot see them and have therefore lost control (and are skiving themselves).
  • ............ Fill in the blanks.

As far as Gov is concerned we have two options relating to the above:

  1. They are really stupid people who have no idea what they are doing and barely went to school, let alone Eton, Harrow, Oxford & Cambridge. Or;
  2. They are very clever people who did go to the Old School Tie schools, who know exactly what they are doing and where it is leading the population.
You decide.

Oh hell, that is almost journalism, I better stop now!!! :ymdevil:
 
MisterP007 said:
As Supertramp said, "Crisis, What Crisis?"

  • Energy crisis - Wholesale prices for gas/oil jump through the roof (temporarily) but because the Gov had shut down and de-commissioned bulk storage facilities there is no buffer to smooth the cost. Consumer pays.
  • CO2 shortage - Same issue as above plus driver shortage partly caused by Brexit (no EU drivers here now). Consumer pays.
  • Fuel crisis - Idiot Gov comments saying there is no shortage knowing full well that Mr & Mrs Dipstick will receive the reverse psychology being used by Gov and queue at fuel stations blocking the roads. Not enough HGV drivers, too many HGV drivers, Reserve Fuel tankers mysteriously appear to save the day courtesy of Gov.
  • E10 fuel - covered by far greater minds than mine elsewhere in the forum but in "essence" (haha) another massive con to sell watered (ethanoled) down crap, and push us towards Electric Cars. Consumer pays.
  • Electric Cars - How are they going to dispose of the highly toxic battery packs when they die? Overpriced, overrated and over here.
  • COVID - do not get me started on the biggest misrepresentation of statistics I have seen in my lifetime. Forced to stay at home, cannot travel, COVID passports, used and excuse for appalling service from just about everyone, "i'ts because of COVID" Used to defer my Cancer Operations for 9-months!!!!!
  • Vaccine - untested (long-term), unproven. One minute our saviour next, "you can still get COVID and pass it on" but of course "it will not be as bad. Great new! trouble is what are the long-term effects and the majority feel forced to be double-jabbed or is it triple-jabbed now!
  • Brexit - Whether you are a Remainer or Leaver, a complete F-up from start to Still not Finished, causing in part, a lot of the above.
  • Stamp duty holiday - Artificially stimulated the housing market shooting prices up so the so-called "saving" was completely negated by the rise in prices.
  • SEISS Grants to help us poor self-employed to get by - nice thought until you realise that it is taxable, not treated as income by mortgage lenders and if you took any of them you raised your head above the HMRC's wall and mortgage lenders would not lend.
  • Furlough - originally "to grant leave to a soldier" 80% of this number 70% of that, all taxable income. Left people who wanted to work unable to, and people who wanted to skive able to.
  • Working from home revolution - for those of us who have done this for 30 plus years, not a problem. For the majority of employees a great excuse to take the kids to school (oh sorry they were shut), skive off and provide sh1t service as their management cannot see them and have therefore lost control (and are skiving themselves).
  • ............ Fill in the blanks.

As far as Gov is concerned we have two options relating to the above:

  1. They are really stupid people who have no idea what they are doing and barely went to school, let alone Eton, Harrow, Oxford & Cambridge. Or;
  2. They are very clever people who did go to the Old School Tie schools, who know exactly what they are doing and where it is leading the population.
You decide.

Oh hell, that is almost journalism, I better stop now!!! :ymdevil:
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PFJ ✊
 
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