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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,587
    Chippycafc said:
    AFKABartram said:
    Croydon said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Chippycafc said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Chippycafc said:
    As long as everyone is sensible things wil be fine. Sadly the greed and selfishness in them won't allow it. 

    Yesterday I was buying milk in my local garage and a woman came in, in her pyjamas and paid £7 for her fuel. When quizzed by the attendant she replied I need it to run my kids to school. 
    Why would the attendant quiz someone on the amount of fuel they buy?
    I believe it was something that flashed up on his panel. But do we want a succession of people going in and putting that amount in. 
    Depends on her circumstances, perhaps she don’t get paid till tomorrow and has to get her kids to school and back. 
    Was just about to say similar. Maybe she only had £7 to her name and needed to get her kids to school
    That would be my thinking and I hope in that situation Chips you’d step in and offer up the £3 to the minimum spend. 
    Have subsequently found out her kids are teenagers and she did this the last time there was a shortage everyday. 

  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,276
    The Texaco just round the corner smashed it's diesel price up to £1.929 on the very first day of the conflict. I will never buy fuel from them again. Even the BP garage is 'only' £1.729. wankers

  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,996
    Chunes said:
    Stuart_Learys_Boots said:
    Get rid of your car. Get on public transport. Reduce the need for oil. 
    Buses come twice a day around here. I could pop to the shops at 9am and be back for 5pm. 
    You're lucky once a week here ! 
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,864
    edited March 24
    Would like to see when the 132 jumps on the A2, stay on it up until entry to Blackwall tunnel, then go around directly to North Greenwich. The graft it takes getting off that Woolwich road turnoff then pissing about around IKEA is a proper ball ache.
    Before you ask, yes I have proposed it to TfL. However as I work for the fucktards, knew exactly where the proposal would go and who would correspond.
    So I will continue to drive and suffer the £17 daily parking.
    Albeit only once a week thankfully
  • BalladMan
    BalladMan Posts: 1,320
    electricity and gas wholesale prices down signifiantly tomorrow, hopefully some end in sight 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,560
    golfaddick said:
    R0TW said:
    MrOneLung said:
    golfaddick said:
    R0TW said:

    Reading that we could be weeks away from fuel rationing.

    Don’t know about others, but I am already getting anxious when my car reaches half a tank.

    Find myself feeling light headed and sweaty when filling up the vehicle.

    Think I might be coming down with car owners virus.

    You panic when your fuel gauge shows half a tank ??????

    Have a word with yourself.........and then watch the episode of Top Gear when Jeremy ran on fumes for miles and miles and miles. 

    I really hope we dont get to the stupid situation we had back in the early 2000's when there was a fuel shortage & there were big queues and garages were running out. I remember being on the A21 near Hook Green and having to do a detour just so I didn't get stuck in a traffic jam that was being caused by cars queuing just to get onto the petrol garage forecourt. 

    And don't talk to me about running out of toilet rolls when people panic bought during the early days of Lockdown. 

    Madness.
    oh Golfie....

    it a joke from back in Covid days

    Car-Owner-Virus
    Sometimes it is bloody hard work on here.
    Sorry, but never heard that before.

    Also doesn't make sense. I know it's a joke 🙄 but why would a respiratory virus have anything to do with owning a car 🤷‍♂️

    And yes, you'll probably have to explain the joke to me as if I was a 5 year old.
    If you were a five year old, your parents would not have been properly social distancing. 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 18,148
    edited March 24
    ArmchairAddick said:
    Chunes said:
    I used to ride a lime bike from hither green to the valley and it was more expensive than getting the train. 
    The good news is the more you do it the quicker you'll get and the less it will cost 😆

    Set up a Strava segment for extra motivation 😜
    They're electric! Even an unfit bloater like me can hit top speed pretty quickly. 
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,388
    ValleyGary said:
    Chippycafc said:
    AFKABartram said:
    Croydon said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Chippycafc said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Chippycafc said:
    As long as everyone is sensible things wil be fine. Sadly the greed and selfishness in them won't allow it. 

    Yesterday I was buying milk in my local garage and a woman came in, in her pyjamas and paid £7 for her fuel. When quizzed by the attendant she replied I need it to run my kids to school. 
    Why would the attendant quiz someone on the amount of fuel they buy?
    I believe it was something that flashed up on his panel. But do we want a succession of people going in and putting that amount in. 
    Depends on her circumstances, perhaps she don’t get paid till tomorrow and has to get her kids to school and back. 
    Was just about to say similar. Maybe she only had £7 to her name and needed to get her kids to school
    That would be my thinking and I hope in that situation Chips you’d step in and offer up the £3 to the minimum spend. 
    Have subsequently found out her kids are teenagers and she did this the last time there was a shortage everyday. 
    And she's a Millwall Season Ticket holder....
    How did you know that
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 1,949
    Stuart_Learys_Boots said:
    Sadly it’s all very chicken and egg. If more people used public transport, more would be made available to meet demand. And costs would reduce. 
    It needs more action to make car driving so unattractive that people are forced to use public transport and start the shift. 
    If we don’t do this, with the continued increase in car usage we will be gridlocked in a few years anyway. 
    In rural Lincolnshire you've for more chance of seeing a fly tipper than a bus....

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,651
    BalladMan said:
    electricity and gas wholesale prices down signifiantly tomorrow, hopefully some end in sight 
    I know, but personally expecting it to be short lived.
    What makes you think an end in sight?

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  • BalladMan
    BalladMan Posts: 1,320
    edited 6:12AM
    Covered End said:
    BalladMan said:
    electricity and gas wholesale prices down signifiantly tomorrow, hopefully some end in sight 
    I know, but personally expecting it to be short lived.
    What makes you think an end in sight?
    I don’t.   It was just an observation for those that had not seen it. No one can predict what Trump and his cronies will do next. 

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