UK about to run out of fuel

I hear tribal war drums...

Uk will be hit by the tsunami from la palma next week

bye bye

I wrote on glp. Declaring Brexit as a must. Thinking I hacked reality so it had to go through. Now Im thinking. What if its my fault. Oh well. You got legs. Walk bitch.

Heading back to the Robin hood/Vahalla days but with electric/hybrid bullet proof wagons and a few droid knights. Stock up on flour.

Starvation, duh

One of Britain’s biggest oil refineries is teetering on the brink of collapse, piling further potential pressure on crisis-riven petrol stations.

The Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, which supplies about a sixth of Britain’s road fuel, is in urgent talks with HM Revenue & Customs over hundreds of millions of pounds it has to start repaying this week unless it can agree a new deal.
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Please don't let the cat out of the bag!

HI....I work for the The UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA) and can assure you the UK IS NOT GOING TO RUN OUT OF FUEL.

Obviously I respect you are posting your thread because it GLP but please....at least have some legitimacy.

Fuel is so expensive in the Uk it's cheaper to buy cocaine and run everywhere instead.

This has nothing to do with Brexit. Most European countries are dealing with driver shortages right now.

Last Edited by Mustydog on 09/25/2021 09:12 PM

Because...global warming.

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And here they are talking about making the national guard take over everything where workers quit in response to medical tyranny.

Stock up. Fill your tank. It’s coming. People aren’t gonna out up with this crap. Anyone who can will leave their system. And NG didn’t sign up for this shit. To be scabs. Omg. Biden admin sucks so bad.

Shortages are nearly all fake news.

Over a year of Covid restrictions and the country managed to tickle along pretty happily.

Then, out of the blue the country did not have enough lorry drivers, while Amazon, Uber and the like are able to find drivers by the thousand.

When I was 18, I was given the keys to a 7.5 Ton box lorry and was driving around narrow car lined streets in central London and other town centres doing 20 - 30 drops a day.

O.K. ridged trucks may be twice as long as the once ubiquitous 7.5 tonner, though with the 5 foot tail lift down it starts to come close, no power steering, no full syncro-meshed gear box, heavy clutch, no sat-nav, no reversing beeper no automatic reversing light. By the end of the day, arms an shoulder would ache due to the pulling and pushing of the steering wheel, yanking on the gear leaver, slow, tight manoeuvring.

In those days class 1 (artic) driving schools offered 2 week (80 hour) course and guaranteed test pass (or free extra training / refund on the second test fee) They were that confident about drivers passing first go. There was no requirement for any kind of experience - straight into a Class 1 vehicle.

Modern lorries are like driving a comfortable car, many having fully automatic transmissions. An experienced HGV Class 1 driver admitted to me that he found driving a big car with a big caravan was more difficult to reverse than an artic (mainly due to the poor mirrors and centre axle on a caravan.

Modern loading facilities are all designed to be tackled in one direction, rarely requiring intricate manoeuvring. Lorries are also able to creep.

Lorry drivers' pay and conditions suck, especially the need for over-night stops, all the bullshit regulations, paperwork, rest stops and DOT checks. The common use of agency staff, umbrella contracts, irregular hours and unfamiliar routes / runs / loads / loading / unloading / unfamiliar / dirty vehicles.

Driver agencies and the customers they contract for learned they could treat Eastern European drivers like shit, this then filtered down to all drivers as wages eroded. Many companies that employed drivers on decent salaries soon learned to outsource the job to greedy, scumbag agencies.

The kick-back has started.

Shortages popping up here and there. They are signs.

Correct there is no fuel shortage... The fuel shortage is ORCHESTRATED as part of a psychological plan to push the new crisis which will be called "The Climate Crisis" and it will be....wait for it.............' all YOUR fault, joe public'..

Not entirely true...

UK driver Agencies encouraged Eastern European drivers by showing them how they could claim generous UK child support and tax credits for children back in their home country, making the otherwise low (Agency) wages very palatable. (This has also been the case for many other low paid low skill UK jobs for Eastern European workers).

Companies could not resist outsourcing their drivers, given the savings and also off-loading ever more responsibilities / liabilities that built up over years in the EU.

European drivers are not going to come back to the UK without UK child benefit, income support and subsidies. The Agencies will need to give substantial wage increase to make up the short fall. So Eastern European drivers will choose France or Germany, with the bonus of getting home more often.

Fuck the Agencies, Fuck companies who screwed drivers outsourcing once decent paying jobs. Fuck the government who have made lorry drivers lives into a regulation and paperwork nightmare.

Most of all, fuck the EU who are now having to face up to all the corrupt tax payer money-go-round theft. Brexit was the only the canary in the coal mine, that fell off the perch way more than 5 years ago.

Kind of just like 2000 when the media whiped up everyone into a blind panic which then created the very issue they were freaking out about.

This is no different

Hilarious and keen observations

Hmmmm.


If this is true it's tragic for Britain.


Of course they have backup plans.


They shouldn't have fucked over Trump.


Big mistake Britain big fucking mistake.

It's all quite intentional.

Shame it might hit some of the nicer parts of the country along the south coast. If the tsunami wouldn't mind taking a little detour through London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester and Leicester it might not be such a bad thing after all.

You know some areas of the south have 350ft high cliffs on the coast right?

Haven't heard that word since the UK miner's strike in the early 1980s.

Scab's get what they deserve.

You know that water takes the path of least resistance, right? How's the coastline along Devon and Cornwall? Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex? Plenty beaches all over down there.

The fruits of socialism -> communism

Bullshit, it was (German) EU mandated child support subsidies designed to increase the UK Stirling debt, syphoning the money into the (German) Euro currency, so exporting (German) Euro inflation to poorer (German Euro) Eastern European countries, enabling them to buy German (Euro) goods. If Germany had not tricked Europe into a single (German) currency (known as the Euro) German goods priced in Deutsche Marks they would now be totally unaffordable across the world.



You totally contradict yourself

There is a fuel shortage if you have an empty tank, and are forced to queues for an indeterminate time waiting for others who are busily brimming up sucking the station dry or causing rationing.

In Soviet Russia, there were no shortages, just people queueing up waiting and hoping to be served.

Or does the words: "Toilet Paper" and £Empty Shelf" mean anything to you. There was no shortage of petrol back in the 1970's when stations closed to save petrol for "regular customers". Been there done that, saw the panic and anger. Also remember the fear back in the early 2000's.