Busy at tesco's petrol pump

[simondjuk]

The question is, would you pay say 5p more for a litro of petrol than run out?

[Big Dave]

The question is, would you pay say 5p more for a litro of petrol than run out?

I'd pay the extra 5p but put in just enough to get me to a cheaper filling station.

[Old Cruser]

I don't think I would bother to be honest, as don't need it for work (I work from home and semi retired anyway) am able to use a bus to shop  - unless they run out od fuel 

[Pete]

Last night on Question Time - 1st question was who is responsible for panic buying of petrol? - 1st answer, Francis Maude.

Typical smarmy politician sh*t stirring and causing mayhem across the country unnecessarily.

Now we read how a woman was messing about with petrol to give some to her daughter and got 40% burns.

They should sack him

Shame on you Francis Maude

http://bit.ly/HlzcUq

[Old Cruser]

Tesco's at Clay Cross are out of diesel

[Alsatian]

Not suprised Walton Motors has got fuel. Have you seen the price of it 

Loggins - Walton Motors - and the one on the main Hasland Road - are all selling it at 142.9 per litre, I think they're all Texaco?

Diesel or petrol at 142.9 ??
Probably petrol. I paid 138.9 for petrol in Notts, Texaco.
Tesco in Notts was cheaper as I posted earlier.

Petrol

[Fly]

Cheers Alsatian, thought so 

[Slacker]

The station on Derby Road (now a car wash) banged the prices up when we had the shortage in 2000. They went out of business not long after. People will buy in times of desperation but will not forgive being ripped off afterwards. That should be a lesson.

[Pete]

Even the Tory press is having second thoughts about this one..

From Charles Moore at the Telegraph:

"But now that I have heard the Conservatives’ private explanation, which is being handed down to constituency associations by MPs, I begin to feel angry.

The private message is as follows. “This is our Thatcher moment. In order to defeat the coming miners’ strike, she stockpiled coal. When the strike came, she weathered it, and the Labour Party, tarred by the strike, was humiliated. In order to defeat the coming fuel drivers’ strike, we want supplies of petrol stockpiled.

Then, if the strike comes, we will weather it, and Labour, in hock to the Unite union, will be blamed.”

What a bunch of tossers... 

http://tgr.ph/H4qfuH

[Big Dave]

So the tankers drivers postpone their strike for a few months until after the stockpiles of fuel have been used and if the Tory t*ss*rs try the same trick again they'll be exposed for what they are.

Alternatively, people who have stored cans of petrol and who don't use it for several months will discover how it 'goes off' after a while and gums up their engines. Then they can blame the Tory t*ss*ers who told them to stockpile it.

Hopefully both might come true 

[Pete]

Suddenly a moped seems like a good idea! 

[Old Cruser]

Ridin along on my push bike honey -----

[Pete]

The Mixtures - The Pushbike Song [totp2]

[Old Cruser]

aarrgghhh I hate that bloody song 

[Big Dave]

Aaargh not again....!! (No, not the song...) I went to Tesco this afternoon 'cos O/H's car needed refuelling. Stopped behind a car which was filling up and the driver paid at the pump. The car in front of him was also ready to leave and both drove away at the same time so I pulled up at the farthest pump. It wasn't until I was out of the car and another had pulled in behind I realised I was at pump No. 5 - the one where 'pay at the pump' is out of order. How did I know? I'd filled up our other car at that same pump a few days before.....

So yet again I had to queue unnecessarily... at least this time there were two cashiers on duty.