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Old Sep 25th, 2021, 20:26   #31
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HGV driver earned £12hr and works 40hrs a week (he as a great job) gives him £480 before stoppages. Now earns £14hr so get £560 and thinks things are on the up.

Then the bills start going up starts with increase in NI, council tax, food, energy, fuel for the car, cloths, in fact everything leading to inflation so Bank of England increase interest rates so the mortgage shoots up

Then it hits home "I'm no better of"
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Old Sep 25th, 2021, 20:32   #32
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Far from rationing fuel by saying a maximum of £30, there should be a minimum charge of £30 for car/van drivers. If you don't have room for 5 gallons, you don't need to be filling up.
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Getting petrol is boring, so I like to minimise the number of visits to the pump. I do this by filling up each time. It's not greedy, it's my normal pattern, but I can imagine being taken to task for it.
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We have a problem, and the problem is we want everything cheap, clothes? Get em from a sweatshop in China, food? Get poor people to sweat in the fields for us. We need to wake up to what is important, stop worrying about what streaming service is cheaper, start paying more for the food you need to live. If we paid farmers more to produce food they could afford to pay for more tech n better wages.

We are in a vicious circle of dependency of cheap foreign labour to keep us supplied with the basics of life. It's gotta stop.
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Getting petrol is boring, so I like to minimise the number of visits to the pump. I do this by filling up each time. It's not greedy, it's my normal pattern, but I can imagine being taken to task for it.
That is exactly what I do. I also have a 20lt jerrycan for use with the ride-on mower and the pedestrian mowers for more formal areas around the house. It does genuinely need refilling, but there is no way I'm taking that down to the local filling station and looking a right greedy d!ckhead. The grass will have to grow until this little skirmish is over.
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Old Sep 25th, 2021, 21:55   #36
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But would we wish to go back to the late 80's early 90's ? If prices keep going up the BOE will put interest rates up. Anyone under 50 will not remember when interest rates hit 13%plus. Can you imagine those rates with house prices has high has we have in the UK now thanks to both parties. Feel for kids starting out now.

Given it's a car forum back on topic. Need to swap out a failed wheel bearing but while doing it was going to do track control arm, drop links ect given I might has well do it all at same time on a 2010plate. God the prices and lack of parts is getting scary. Even Parts for Volvo seem to have stock problems, because most parts come from Europe?. And a number of car parts suppliers where I live have disappeared (gone bust) The world has gone mad.

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...The world has gone mad.
Nah, just Britain.

When do we reckon the medicine shortages will kick in?
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Old Sep 25th, 2021, 23:03   #38
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Nah, just Britain.

When do we reckon the medicine shortages will kick in?
Thing what worries me re fuel is the clowns from ExRe are liable to block the fuel depots to bring us to our knees. Even if emergency vehicles run dry putting lives at risk. But yes some things we can do without but medicines need to be delivered and if the vans can't get fuel this week.
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Old Sep 26th, 2021, 10:43   #39
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It's a vicious circle.

I currently drive for a supermarket, vans... and on Friday the forecourt at the store was queued round the car park, thus it was becoming an issue to fill said vans (they're topped up when they hit 1/2 tank usually) and being sat in the queue for an hour and more wasn't an option, schedules etc ect.

Late Friday night they temporarily closed the forecourt and fuelled all the vans, which is compounding the issue but the other option was to either lose hours sat waiting or have vans running out and cancelling deliveries. Saturday afternoon and after continuous queues all day and people filling their tanks, it's now empty as are a few others locally.

I need fuel in the car, light is on but I'm hoping that once the initial knee jerk reaction is over and Karen who's filled her XC90 now has enough fuel that she won't need to visit again till mid December given she works from home and the car does 7 miles a week to the school and back... plus a friend who drives HGV's has alluded that the local refinery hasn't really suffered any driver losses, bar the usual sick days etc but it's still business as usual and it's the fact panic buying has kicked in that has created the issues.

See also: bog rolls, water, pigs in blankets..

But what do you do, queue for an hour and stick a tenner in or join the sheep and fill the tank? My wife's currently away south of the border and put £50 in the car to get her home later plus see her through the rest of the week but she said didn't know whether to fill it or just fuel it as we normally do. It's a catch 22 situation, do you blindly follow the herd or pick your own path and deal with the consequences that may bring.

Frankly, the country is a mess just now... and I think a lot is down to the media and their need to the next big story, regardless of the facts and then the Facebookers just fuel the fire "OMG hun, have yooz herd theirs no fewl, best go and get some... even though uv not got a car, just fill up wee Jaysens water bottle hun xoxoxox" and we end up in a proper old mess.

It's madness.
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I can't believe that after Bogrollgate early on in the pandemic, we are now facing Fuelgate.

Just drove 10 miles to two local filling stations - one closed & the other with several pumps out, no diesel & a queue of traffic.

Car now showing range of 40 miles, well into the reserve & me potentially stranded.

Another example of the "screw you mate, I'm OK" culture in this country?

Highly Peevd.

Good weekend all!

its ok everyone's tank will be full by tomorrow leaving the forecourt empty for you hopefully !
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