howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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There are dangerous implications in storing fuel, fire fumes etc. Totally irresponsible.
Audere est facere.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Doesn't read to me like they are saying the public should dngerously stockpile fuel...
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Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Dont do it unless you have the correct facilities to store it safely.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the wrong message has been sent however it is worded.
the impression given is that fuel will run out, people panic and some will do the dangerous thing.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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News has reached me that people were filling containers/drums at Tesco the other evening as well as filling their cars. The story being used is that the petrol is for lawnmowers...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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didn't take long.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Panic buying in drums etc means it will be stored some where in domestic premises, with the value of it no doubt some will be stored inside, recipe for disaster.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I am sure that there are severe restrictions as to what vessels can be filled with petrol at filling stations. Glass bottles stoppered with wadding are frowned upon apparently.
IF!! Things get bleak I suppose it is a good idea to have a gallon in the trunk, to aid any stranded motorist. What one might charge....
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Francis Maude, currently it seems the face of government public relations, appeared to make a clanger on Sky News in the last 20 minutes or so when he said
"A bit of fuel in a jerry can be a sensible idea"
He appeared to do a bit of backpeddaling after that one, but let's be honest, this isnt being handled with the right level of PR. HMG are seeking to make it appear the strike is fairly awful and are appearing to give the impression that its all going to be so awful that you might just stockpile...Sky News are now repeating this statement on their main news right now at the top of the hour.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i saw that interview, maude was asked about his previous irresponsible comment and managed to switch the subject to red ed.
used to respect maude but i think he is past his sell by date now.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Come into the filling-station, Maud,
For the black bat, Night, is our home,
Come into the station, Maud,
I am here at the pump alone;
And the woodbines are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the Tories blown...
[with apologies to AT]
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Maud's reply...
Maud's not coming into the station
Thanking you just the same.
Though he looks so pure
You can be quite sure
he's onto your little game.
Maud knows he's being damping -
(And how damp you already must be)
But Maudie is now decamping
To his lovely hot-water B.
[with apologies to Joyce Grenfell]
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I haven't seen any tv today (too nice to be indoors) but from what I've read it's a sensible message that has been put over badly.
There is far more capacity in the nation's car fuel tanks than there is in the tanks at petrol stations, which run on a just in time basis for refilling. So while we've got plenty of warning that there might (emphasise - might!) be delivery problems it makes sense for everyone to top up their tanks when they're less empty than usual, which will reduce problems for all if a strike does come about.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Yesterday I noticed massive queues for fuel at both Tesco and Sainsburys in Folkestone so I took the precaution of filling up at Hammonds when I got back.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The rather worrying advance is the news that the army "is being trained" to drive fuel tankers. I was once told by one such tanker driver that their driving knowledge and experience has to be extensive, tried and tested before they are licensed to drive these tankers.
While there are baffles within the tank to help with the sloshing about having a cargo so ever-on-the-move could easily catch out the unsuspecting.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Tom, what I heard was that it will be RAF personnel who are used to driving tankers for refuelling aircraft who will be used.
The training they are receiving will be 1) how to get it from the tanker into the filling station tanks 2) how to do 1 without being conned by the filling station manger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Fare enough Ray.
There is surely little to no opportunity for 'improved' earnings. Such is the trust engendered in the population by the level-headed kindnesses shown by the Oil Industry over the years.
[Tongue!!! Front and centre!]
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Fuel for thought
Brian Dixon
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ray you forgot no.3 how to cross picket lines.