DaFoot Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Instead we get to laugh at the fools that spent uneccessarily. Arguably as prices for petrol/diesel are only going one way you could view it as an investment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 what government advice? The only information given by the government was to direct questions from the media. It was the news agencies looking for a juicy story who fed this panic, not the government. Cameron has just ordered you to talk crap, is that right? Keep it up you are doing well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Cameron has just ordered you to talk crap, is that right? Keep it up you are doing well. nope, I have a brain. whats your excuse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom309 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 You will have 7 days notice of any intended strike action as this as to be submitted by law before any strike action is implemented. With talks due next week it will be around 14 days before any strike, so don't panic folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F. Sidebottom Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Why is everyone blaming the government? They're not the ones who declared an intention to strike due to poor working conditions in their £47.5k per year jobs, in full knowledge that it would be guaranteed to cause a fuel buying panic, only to then call it off. They'll keep doing it, and the fools will keep panic buying, and keep blaming the government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 They'll keep doing it, and the fools will keep panic buying, and keep blaming the government. Idiots don't like looking in the mirror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rd Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 UNITE have now officially called off their proposed strike over Easter. Was there ever a proposed strike before,over,after easter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Who the hell thought it appropriate to decant petrol in a room with a cooker burning? That's not following government advice, that's got a lot more to do with a Darwin Award. Much as I have sympathy with people who feel threatened by the potential of the lack of fuel, really, come on, at least do things sensibly. Why are you not allowed to smoke whilst filling up the car with petrol? Could it possibly be because it's both volatile and flammable? I think you should link all these threads together, as it is becoming tiresome replying to fools on three fronts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittenta Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Idiots don't like looking in the mirror. Or just maybe people took the advice shown on the news to 'top up' and store fuel and when faced with the prospect (for some) of being unable to work due to no fuel, which means no wages or food on the table, those 'idiots' decided that it would be better to be prepared? If there had been a fuel shortage and people had come on here saying they'd got no fuel therefore no money and no food, they'd have been called idiots for not being prepared. . Fair enough there are hundreds of people who will have filled up their tanks to the brim along with petrol cans when really they'd have managed just fine, but that's not the case for everyone . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 It is if you are desperately looking to make a political point. Nope- no party political statement intended there at all. I'm simply commenting that even if some official somewhere has suggested that you should collect fuel in containers, nobody in their right minds would suggest decanting them in a closed room with a naked flame. Whilst I don't believe that suggesting that people panic buy was a sensible or moral thing to do, no advice suggested that it was a good thing to have open petrol containers in a room with a cooker that was turned on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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