Petrol Buying

Don't think it’s illegal but I’d probably check with my home insurer if nothing else.

 

CILLIT BANG! AND THE DIRT IS GONE!

 

Literally?

 

I was only relaying what I was told.

Regarding the lawn mower issue that some have mentioned, I would reckon it doesn't matter as the petrol is in the machine that uses it. I think the point relates to whether you should be storing petrol in cans, which is a silly thing to do anyway let alone too much of it.

 

That doesn’t look like fuel to me. I certainly wouldn’t put it in your car .

 

I think the point is that the lawnmower is more flammable than a Jerry can. The can by design is less likely to result in combustion if you throw a naked light on it. Not so sure with a petrol lawnmower. I might be wrong and certainly wouldn’t put either to the test.

As an aside I used to have a petrol can for a powered strimmer. Kept the Jerry can in a steel cabinet in a wooden shed. Keeping it in the shed was a bit of a risk. One reason why building regs say a wooden shed has to be a minimum 1 metre from your neighbours boundary.

i also used to store up to 5 litres of Isopropyl Alcohol, (used it as a solvent and paint stripper) Never in the house also in the shed. Again stored in a separate steel cabinet.

Anyone who has had a family member affected by serious burns would attest to the need to be very cautious with any combustible liquid.

 

I don't think you need to worry.

 

Which Spice Girl can help in the petrol crisis?









Geri can!

 

Not easy to solve, but it costs more to attract and recruit replacement employees than it costs to retain them in the first place. It is the situation that absolutely every business has to face. The hauliers got it badly wrong for years by getting drivers unsustainably on the cheap, with the RHA identifying a 50,000 shortage as long ago as 2015.

 

I believe that 30 litres is the maximum amount of petrol you can legally store
Diesel is a different matter as it is used in some cases as heating oil although kerosene is much more widely used now

 

We have our very own home grown idiots too....

 

This was the exact point I made to my own dear Sodexo employers. It costs on average £600 to recruit and train a new carer. They even wanted to take on someone just to do recruiting at even more cost.

Why not spend a fraction of that sum on retaining the qualified and experienced carers you've already got with a few little sweeteners - especially for long service.

Of course I might as well have talked to the wall. It was pooh poohed as communistic nonsense, with the results that the branch is now on the point of collapse for want of staff. Well done again British management!

 

Interesting to watch the propaganda in action.

Tv news shots of long queues for petrol with voice-over lady saying smoothly and calmly that "Boris Johnson" has "reassured" the public that the queues are easing and all is well with the world.

Imagine if the last election had gone the other way. It'd be like the last days of armageddon. Maybe the same petrol queue shot, but now the voice is sharp and alarmed. Although "Corbyn claims" that the situation should improve, queues continue and we ask these angry motorists what THEY think about Corbyn and now back to the studio for an interview with the lady dowager ponsonby on what SHE thinks of Corbyn's promises...and so on.

 

Unfortunately most employers need to maintain the illusion that you need them more than they need you, and that there is a queue of people waiting to take your job.

 

Yes. I saw he'd swung into action on the news last night. And my what a piece to camera it was. Using the government bully pulpit in the new media room, he produced a galvanising made-for-tv news bulletins speech, full of fire, as he slammed the people irresponsibly buying fuel they didn't need, accusing them of damaging the country's recovery from the pandemic and the safe operation of the emergency services, acting selfishly and outright ordering them to stop immediately.

Oh wait, that's completely made up. Worzel appeared from back lounge at No 10, mumbled a piece to camera about how the situation was stablishing and then carrying on with more passive tense nonsense if he's just some sort of bemused observer with no say or influence at all. I think the closest he got to telling people what to do was when he "urged people to go about their business in the normal way", in possibly the most chicken response ever from a man notorious for them. Clearly wants nothing to do with the whole fiasco, having hidden for a few days, but now forced belatedly onto camera to talk about it.

 

The only difference is the American one is a stunt and fake.
It was posted with a caveat that this is not real and a trick, during a fuel supply interruption there

 

I see some of the loons on social media are hypothesising it’s all a conspiracy, because they needed to shift E5 petrol/and or because we didn’t drive much last year, there is a load of petrol due to go out of date that needs shifting.

 

I'm hearing from the very busy Man @ ESSO that the micro chips in the virus were used to artificially promote our desire to fill up.
Makes perfect sense to me and as we know, he's rarely wrong.
Waiting to hear what AL and WdSport say on the matter.

 

theres a fli on the wall dokumentry about this m8

 

Scary stuff but the control exercised doesn't seem to go as far as make her queue up for fuel she doesn't need, just kill a few people.
Maybe they have saved that for the sequel documentary "IMPLANTED 2 - Empty tank" ?

 

I put so much fuel in my car that I couldn’t get in it.

 

Hoping I can fill up so I can get to Leeds and back at the weekend.

 

Petrol station in Tring still has fuel but long queues. I'm fine as have 120 miles of diesel left in the car and can just work from home to ride it out. However Mrs TUT, her of the MBE and key NHS exec role, has 2 miles of petrol left in her car, so 1/I have to drive her to and from the station each day for her to find her way to and from work via a convoluted route, and 2/I will ultimately have to drive around to find a station with fuel, queue to fill up with diesel and a can of unleaded for her, so she can fill her car with enough fuel so that she can then drive down and queue to fill up. Just a minor inconvenience though and I think we'll just carry on as is for a few days yet. Terrible for key workers, carers, etc who are totally dependent on fuel.

 

No queues in Ireland. Pop over here and fill up. We would be delighted to see you.

 

Petrol stations in my part of deepest darkest hairiest Somerset looked open today with minimal queues

I guess everyone got a bit bored with it all

 

What do you think will be next? Just want to get ahead of the game and stockpile the next item scheduled for shortage before queues grow. I've room in my freezer for about a dozen loaves of bread. Could be a sensible move .... at least I won't starve.

 

Finally someone's taking back control of our petrol station forecourts:

https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1443108098302959617

 

I filled the Escort up with Diesel the other day



She died.


* Stolen from Gary Delaney

 

Haha, mine was Bob Mortimer.

 

I dislike Boris Johnson with a staunch passion...

But what I will say is that it has been his mother's funeral over the past couple of days. So stands to reason somewhat if he's been out of the public eye. I wouldn't normally give him a pass given he's gone regularly missing at key points over the past couple of years - but this time, I kinda get it.

 

Ah ok, well then that's fair enough. I hadn't seen that reported anywhere. And I thought it was pretty crazy he went ahead with the Covid news conference on the day it was announced she'd passed away, so I fully support him stepping back.