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Filled up when we went on holiday last week, very timely. Still have some left in the tank but will be restricted if I can't get to a pump. Want to go fishing mid week but it is looking dodgey.
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savvypaul wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:21 am I'm going to try to put some diesel in my car, later this week.

Might be problematic. One of the garages near me was briefly open today but only had supreme unleaded petrol. Expensive but needs must.
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Shapps said: "I think the important thing to know is that within the country, at the six refineries and 47 storage facilities, there is plenty of fuel, there is no shortage of fuel within the country
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That struck me as logic akin to "There are huge reserves of bread, butter, and cheese, in Arbroath. There is no shortage of food and I don't understand why everyone South of Carlisle is hungry. There is, however a shortage of lorry drivers, so we can't actually deliver the bread, butter, and cheese. The shortage, therefore, is drivers, not food, and that's the fault of you, the British public, for not becoming lorry drivers, and the hauliers associations who won't encourage new drivers to sign up for low paying gigs when they can earn much more elsewhere.

Nothing to do with Brexit. See? All your fault, not ours.
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The fact of the matter is that if we were still in the EU there would be petrol at the pumps. They are trying to lie their was out with the help of the tabloids.

The blame is ultimately with the thick pillocks, blinded by their prejudices, who could not see through the lies and voted leave. We are a laughing stock all round the world. You can get petrol in third world countries.
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One of my favourite bands, The Scorpions, has announced a European tour for 2022. One country where they have a big following and always include is conspicuous by its absence. The UK.
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I thought this was a pretty decent article, and one worth reprinting here...

The Observer view on shortages and rationing
Observer editorial

Boris Johnson can’t blame Covid for the hardship that lies ahead; deliberate choices by Tory ministers have also played their part.

Queues at the pumps, shortages in supermarkets, energy companies going bust and chemotherapy being cancelled due to staff shortages. Welcome to Britain in 2021. Some of this disruption has clearly been caused by a pandemic exerting pressures on supply chains, workforces and healthcare systems all over the world. But Boris Johnson’s political choices have only acted to make Covid’s impact on the national infrastructure far worse.

The lines at petrol stations may be driven more by panic buying than real fuel shortages. But panic buying can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and it is a sign of a more anxious national mood as Britain heads into winter. Food prices are forecast to increase by more than 5% in the coming months. And the government is persisting with plans to cut financial support for low-paid parents by more than £1,000 a year this autumn. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has estimated that the typical low-income family will be £1,750 a year worse off by next April as a result of all these changes. This is a huge amount to lose for parents already struggling to keep their children warm and well-fed, the difference between just about getting by and entering into a miserable downward spiral of debt and poverty.

It is unthinkable that the government is about to let so many families already suffering from intense financial jeopardy end up in this situation. This situation is not just the product of a pandemic-related economic shock: it is the result of sustained government policy. A decade of tax credit cuts has seen many low-income families lose thousands of pounds a year even as Conservative chancellors have spent several billion a year on tax cuts that have disproportionately benefited more affluent households. The government has done too little in the face of longstanding warnings to tackle the fragility of the UK’s energy supply.

One of the reasons that relatively low food prices are so important for household budgets is because of the extortionate housing costs that swallow up renters’ salaries: tenants in the UK, who make up a growing proportion of households, pay the highest rents in Europe. Yet the government has done nothing to reverse the whittling away of the social housing stock that is needed to create more affordable rents: last year, it was depleted by almost 30,000 through sales and demolitions, far exceeding the number of new social homes built.

Brexit has also made things worse. As one of the public faces of the Vote Leave campaign, Johnson promised that a bilateral trade deal with the US would be the jewel in the post-Brexit British crown. The experts who warned that it could never make up for more than a small fraction of the volume of trade lost as a result of Brexit and that it would never come to pass, have been proved right as all hopes of a quick deal evaporated when Johnson paid his first visit to the White House last week.

All the anticipated costs and frictions of Brexit have materialised, combining with CO₂ shortages to jam up the food supply chain. The end of free movement has generated a lorry driver shortage that has been made worse by the inefficiencies Brexit has imposed on road haulage: European drivers have far less flexibility to work deliveries within the UK into their cross-continent routes. The government’s proposed solution – a temporary relaxation in visa rules – is pitched too incrementally: will European drivers really opt for this given the added inefficiencies of UK work, the short-term nature of the relaxation, and the experience many had of being trapped in their cabs in queues on British roads due to Covid-related disruption last Christmas?

It is not just the food supply chain that Brexit is affecting: there is also a growing crisis in the care sector, with a shortage of care workers both as a result of the pandemic and of post-Brexit immigration rules. This is leaving too many people with disabilities in the intolerable position of struggling to arrange not just the life-enhancing, but in some cases the life-critical care they need. And in the NHS, a lack of workforce planning and a decade of underinvestment have meant that the long-term effect of Covid will be even more detrimental. One hospital in Nottingham announced that staff shortages are forcing it to ration chemotherapy for cancer patients, while a new study out last week predicted that it could take more than a decade to clear the post-pandemic cancer treatment backlog.

A pandemic may have made things worse, but what is happening to energy, food, and healthcare shows that years of neglect of Britain’s housing, health and essential infrastructure, combined with the political right’s almost fanatical obsession with Brexit, will come at a very high cost for families. The government may not yet be facing the political consequences, but the question for Keir Starmer as the Labour party holds its annual conference this weekend is whether he can articulate the hardships in store. Voters deserve an opposition capable of illustrating that it is a series of quite deliberate political choices that will catapult hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, generate rising homelessness as a result of tenants not being able to pay their rent and lead to growing numbers having their medical treatment cancelled. It is the Conservative government that is to blame for the full extent of the cost-of-living crisis and the precarious state of the NHS and the care sector. But Starmer’s Labour party must play its role in holding Johnson to account.

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Nigel Farage says he was hit by a van while stationary at a roundabout when searching for petrol. Made me laugh. :lol:

Poetic justice if ever there was.
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CN211276 wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:35 pm Nigel Farage says he was hit by a van while stationary at a roundabout when searching for petrol. Made me laugh. :lol:

Poetic justice if ever there was.
Somewhat surprised this was an issue for him - I thought he pissed petrol...

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Grumpytim wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:54 pm
CN211276 wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:35 pm Nigel Farage says he was hit by a van while stationary at a roundabout when searching for petrol. Made me laugh. :lol:

Poetic justice if ever there was.
Somewhat surprised this was an issue for him - I thought he pissed petrol...
Sadly, I understand that Farage was inside his vehicle when the van hit him.
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slinger wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 2:28 pm
Grumpytim wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:54 pm
CN211276 wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:35 pm Nigel Farage says he was hit by a van while stationary at a roundabout when searching for petrol. Made me laugh. :lol:

Poetic justice if ever there was.
Somewhat surprised this was an issue for him - I thought he pissed petrol...
Sadly, I understand that Farage was inside his vehicle when the van hit him.
It truly is an imperfect world.
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