John
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Getting worse up here, ques into the roads now 
Fucking British media.
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Hammer
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Registered: 11th Feb 04
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Wee brother works in a garage, took 4 grand in 4 hours, the average intake is normally well below a grand.
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sneddz
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Registered: 8th Jul 02
Location: Falkirk
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my gf was away to fill up my car and when she got to the petrol station she had to wait for 45 mins
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Edd
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Registered: 8th Nov 04
Location: Glasgow
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right im getting majorly pissed off here, this whole place has went fucking mental panic buying in full flow
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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i could walk to work it only takes 20 mins, but i need to come home at lunch times, and i only get half an hour. i could use my bike, but i'd be all sweaty for work :x
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JadeM
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Registered: 9th Feb 06
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Asda filling station in GRANGEMOUTH had ran dry yesterday afternoon 
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willay
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Location: Roydon, Essex
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dont believe the hype.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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Fucking hell, get off your moral high horses you lot.
"Use a bus to go to work, walk, bike" Have you seent he weather/condition of public transport lately?
Yes, I need diesel, yes, I have to pay 120ppl, but FFS its outragous. Its our greeky arse government wanting more and more money for people easy to target.
Anyway, this strike is nothing to do with the price of fuel 
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
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Also, everybody saying get on your bike - thats fine - for me to work a 4 hour shift at Tesco its an hour walk or 6 mile roundtrip on my bike. This is fine when its not pissing it down with rain - when it is its very difficult to work in drenched clothes.
The same applies for people who work in offices / banks etc where personal appearance is one of the key parts of their job - if you turn up sweaty, smelly and like a drowned rat you could get a word on the side - and thats only the first instance, if it keeps happening you could lose your job for it.
And its OK people in large cities that have public transport such as London, Manchester what have you, but anywhere outside these towns and cities public transport is thin and far between, so its nigh on impossible to use it every day to get somewhere such as a job
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sneddz
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Registered: 8th Jul 02
Location: Falkirk
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how do i cycle to the oil rigs? ha ha ha
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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 you are a special case 
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sneddz
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ha ha heard that before!
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A1EX
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Registered: 29th Mar 00
Location: Turku, Finland
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paying about 50p a litre here maybe less
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Jambo
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public transport is shite. End of. I live near London and would say public transport is great there but 9times out of 10 with the tube u can walk quicker between stations due to the volume of people clogging escalators and exits etc..
I visit london regularly Maidenhead to paddington takes 1hr. Which is weird seeming as i can get to hammersmith by car in less than 20! Many times i have feared for my safety on the train home on friday/saturday nights with coked and drugged up cunts looking for fights, ppl trying to mug u etc etc. Then u have the smell the vomit and the high probability u wont get a seat. Its fucking abismal. No other word describes it. I would blame the government for the state of it but i dont i blame the English yob public.
I too would have to add on 1hr 30mins to get to my work buy train rather than car. The service isnt designed to serve a mass populous spread out so far, so we NEED cars to commute.
We need a monorail!
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Anyway, this strike is nothing to do with the price of fuel
not directly, no.
they are striking against their pension funds but it has a knock on effect of panic buying and prices going up.
supply ad demand, it's a vicious thing 
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
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Dad should have a few barrels of petty spare down his yard so im prepared
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RyanSxi
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Registered: 26th Jul 06
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Might go to petrol station late one night and get a tanks worth. Will last me till about 3/4 weeks if im carefull
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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quote:
Originally posted by sneddz
how do i cycle to the oil rigs? ha ha ha
pedal boat ftw 
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A1EX
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Registered: 29th Mar 00
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
public transport is shite. End of. I live near London and would say public transport is great there but 9times out of 10 with the tube u can walk quicker between stations due to the volume of people clogging escalators and exits etc..
I visit london regularly Maidenhead to paddington takes 1hr. Which is weird seeming as i can get to hammersmith by car in less than 20! Many times i have feared for my safety on the train home on friday/saturday nights with coked and drugged up cunts looking for fights, ppl trying to mug u etc etc. Then u have the smell the vomit and the high probability u wont get a seat. Its fucking abismal. No other word describes it. I would blame the government for the state of it but i dont i blame the English yob public.
I too would have to add on 1hr 30mins to get to my work buy train rather than car. The service isnt designed to serve a mass populous spread out so far, so we NEED cars to commute.
We need a monorail!
awaits simpsons monorail song video
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sneddz
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Registered: 8th Jul 02
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i thot exactly the same when i read monorail!
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
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that was the idea 
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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People only panic buy because they know others are going to do so. So everyone go's at once to fill up so they dont arrive to closed pumps. I work 35 miles away, about a fiver a day in diesel, last week I had to get the train & it cost £6, had to get a lift 4 miles to the station, change train once then walk a mile & a half.....id go nuts doing that every day!
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
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as long as i dont have a car when the strikes are on it wont bother me
but prices are high compared to other contries
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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I might need to go & stay through in Edinburgh if it gets really bad, strike could last a month - I use a tank of diesel in a week.......only thing then is I need a bus from the flat to work.....which also runs on diesel
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Our buses run on veggie oil here so ner ner
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