littlebro 234 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USofA (1809 - 1865) I remember back in 1973 when we had the first petrol crisis, a customer stuck a note on a petrol pump: “You can fuel some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fuel all of the people all of the time”. Anon 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Just been to Morrisons...the petrol station bit looked more like the car park......it was packed.......but we got our weekly tenners worth. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 All the petrol stations are busy today, noticed that the 1 on Wollaton Vale has increased his price for diesel from 146.9 yesterday to 150.9 today, and still people are queuing, thats the most expensive that I have seen diesel today, the station on the a52 at Gamston is 149.9 today it was 146.9 yesterday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 ALL THE PETROL STATONS ARE BUSY THE ONE ON COLWICK LOOP RD NEAR THE ISLAND SNEINTON ENDUNLEADED PETROL 146P PER LITRE QUEES AS FAR BACK AS THE KFC. SAME WHEN WE CAME BACK TALK ABOUT PANICK BUYING. DAVE PICKED TENNERS WORTH UP FROM ASDA ON THE GREEN THISMORNING 136P PER LITRE GONE UP BY A PENNY SINCE MONDAY SAID HE NOT HAVE TO WAIT ANY LONGER THAN NORMAL BUT ID LIKE TO BET WHEN WE GO FOR OUR USUAL WEEKEND PETROL IT WILL BE MANIC. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 So you guys are paying 7+ quid a gallon? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted March 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 £149.9 per litre = £6.81 per UK gallon or £5.67 per US gallon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Nothing like a bit of mass hysteria to keep the headline writers busy. So why are people queuing all day for petrol? No-one has gone on strike. The tanker drivers have said they will strike at some point if they can't reach an agreement on various matters. At the moment they are working normally and delivering normally. Even if they do plan to strike, they have to give 7 days notice, so the earliest time when supplies might be disrupted is a week tomorrow. The government have been helpful, firstly by telling people to stockpile petrol - then retracting that advice when it was pointed out that it was a serious safety hazard. Now they are telling people to fill up when the tank is half empty, but why? Supplies are still normal and if everyone behaved normally, we could all still just put petrol in whenever we needed it. There may be a lot of intelligence out in the world somewhere.......but there are also a few big holes which common sense falls into and disappears Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted March 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Fancy moving? Today's fuel prices: Algeria: Algiers — 20p per litre Oman: Muscat — 20p per litre Egypt: Cairo — 19p per litre Qatar: Doha — 15p per litre Kuwait: KuwaitCity — 14p per litre Bahrain: Manama — 13p per litre Turkmenistan: Ashgabat — 12p per litre Libya: Tripoli — 9p per litre Saudi Arabia: Riyadh — 8p per litre Venezuela: Caracas — 3p per litre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 the answer lies in the soil Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 There were places in Nottingham selling unleaded for £1-36 per litre. The place on Wollaton Vale, mentioned by taxi ray, always bumps it's price up at the first opportunity. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Or the sand. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 I remember a few years ago when we were in the same state. A Derby taxi driver started to hoard petrol in his celler. He bought a load of plastic dustbins and filled them. Plastic dustbins were not designed to store petrol and they all leaked the petrol into the floor of the cellar. The petrol and fumes, spread along the whole street of Terraced houses, and the whole street had to be evacuated. Half the fire brigade were parked up on standby on the street for weeks. The occupants all had to be found temporary accommodation until it was safe to return. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Melbourne petrol prices (ULP) have been around the $AUD145.9 per litre for the past fortnight, having nudged $AUD150.0 and expectations for $AUD 160.0 in the coming days. LPG is now $AUD80.0 per litre and Australia sells it overseas for a fraction of that! Diesel is nearly always higher than petrol, by about 5-10 cents; even though it is a byproduct of petrol. Go country and the petrol prices rise accordingly with some of the more remote places at $AUD185.9 - 200.0. All our Government can say is that we would be paying $2 a litre if our dollar was back at its parity level of 79 cents to the US dollar. A consequence of the higher prices over here is a surge in petrol and number plate thefts and drive offs from petrol stations (guess what they are using the stolen plates for....no ID on the CCTV). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Paying two pounds forty pence per gallon here in Florida,and I think the natives are getting ready for the next 'revolution'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Fancy moving? Today's fuel prices: Algeria: Algiers — 20p per litre Oman: Muscat — 20p per litre Egypt: Cairo — 19p per litre Qatar: Doha — 15p per litre Kuwait: KuwaitCity — 14p per litre Bahrain: Manama — 13p per litre Turkmenistan: Ashgabat — 12p per litre Libya: Tripoli — 9p per litre Saudi Arabia: Riyadh — 8p per litre Venezuela: Caracas — 3p per litre Then compare the general standard of living , and the freedom of speech between them and us. For instance , we wouldn't be allowed this discussion in most of the places listed, or if we were it would only be a matter of time before some jackbooted thug came a tappin on the door with his size twelvezies ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Do you have fluctuating prices of fuel over there in England?? In Melbourne, we can have prices going up and down on a daily basis with some overnight hikes of up to 15cents per litre. Funny thing though, when the price rises and then dops back, it never drops back to the price level of the previous days. Two major supermarkets, Woolies and Coles own the major petrol outlets and give you 4cents a litre discount dockets if you buy your groceries, grog etc from them. Sometimes the discounts can be 8cents or more but, the groceries are normally priced higher than the previous week if that happens and strangely, the major outlets miraculously match each others price rises. Of course, all deny collusion. Very few independent petrol stations are around now as they cannot compete with big boys. The overnight price hikes are the worst and in the past, invariably before a weekend, holiday period or similar. People woke up to that and purchased fuel midweek. Petrol outlets now do it any old day. Some refineries talking of closing down in Australia because of rising costs...Ha Ha! They riot over in Africa, Asia and South America when petrol prices rise....we voice our concerns in the media and then accept it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 There's no fluctuations here Trevor, they go up by 1 or 2 p a week !! and tend to stay up. Every now and again they drop a penny but in three months previous they have risen 10p !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 There's no fluctuations here Trevor, they go up by 1 or 2 p a week !! and tend to stay up. Every now and again they drop a penny but in three months previous they have risen 10p !! You are lucky in that regard then. It is Russian Roulette here at times when having to buy the go juice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 PIGGY BEEN TODAY TO ASDA GONE UP BY 1P AGAIN OVERNIGHT BUT STILL GOT OUR PETROL ALLTHOUGH THEY HAD CLOSED OF THE ENTRANCE NEAREST THE SHOP TO STOP PEOPLE BLOCKING THE TRAM LINES HAD TO TURN ROUND AND GO BACK TO OTHER ENTRANCE BUT THEY HAD SOMEONE TELLING PEOPLE WHAT PUMPS TO GO TO AND DID NOT TAKE US MORE THAN FIVE TO TEN MINUETS TO GET IN AND OUT ,NOT AS BAD AS I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE.HAVE TO AGAIN TOMOROW TO TOP UP FOR THE WEEK AS WE ARE GOING OUT ON SUNDAYFOR THE DAY WITH FRIENDS TO NEAR LEEDS.. JUST HEARD ON THE NEWS FEW MINUETS AGO WOMAN HAS SET HERSELF ON FIRE TRANSFERING PETROL FROM JERRY CANTO HER CAR IS IN INTENSIVE CARE DID NOT CATCH WERE IT WAS BUT JUST SHOWSJUST HOW DANGEROUS THE ADVICE GIVEN OUT IS IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING HOPE SE RECOVERS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 DG BRITT MUDGIE PIGGY SEZ CAN YOU SENT A FEW GALLONS OVER HERE SAVE HIM QUEING Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Luckily, the scots are, by-and-large a little more Blasé about the situation. No queues between Wick and Inverness yesterday or today. It may be a question of "The English say stock up so we bloody well arenae gonna!" Here's a sign that has appeared outside the famous climbers' pub The Clachaig Inn, Glencoe: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 I told Mudgie this morning i put $75 petrol every 2 days but i was wrong its every 3 days Just paid $4.15 gal .Its gone down a bit from last week They hired a guy just to change the numbers on the sign full time job Brian told me to get a smaller car but i like V8's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Asda garage West Bridgford was shut at dinnertime yesterday totally sold out, at Morrisons they were queuing round the block, heard you couldn't get into the store! sometimes use both if shopping there but long worked the effort, time and extra cost of getting to such not worth the odd pence saving on fuel price, as it was pulled in to empty local garage and filled up earlier Quote Link to post Share on other sites
2easyco 41 Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I was going to fill the bath with petrol, but the Missus has her postage stamps and pasties in there! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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