http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/25/npipe125.xml
Will there be or will there not be any fuel shortage because of the grangemouth strike .... Mr Goverment spokesman seems to say everythings going to
be ok and plenty fuel but Mr Bp says other wise
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/25/npipe125.xml
government admitted there will be as they have not made any contingancy.
Have a look on daily mail website
am i buvvered? as long as I have enuf petrol to get to stoneleigh, who cares 
need to do some panic buyng quickly before it all goes.
weird as soon as anyone in the media mentions not to panic buym the opposite happens.
who remembers the sugar shortages???? 
If you don't have any tools to fix the problem, step 1. pretend there isn't a problem.
How very like them.
Step 2. will be to trigger utterly inappropriate terror legislation I expect.
Oh well, if I can't get diesel I'll just have to work from home. Tragic.
What rubbish! Brent crude from the North Sea is sold at a premium for making plastics and other petrochemicals. We burn cheaper imported oil. I
thought the North Sea pipe went to Mossmorran linky
Where oil and gas are converted to Ethylene for the chemical industry and Hound point
url=http://www.forthports.co.uk/ports/ports/scotland/marine/]linky[/url]linkywhere
it gets exported from! I also thought the pipe landing at Kinniel came from Hound's Point for import of crude
Caber[
[Edited on 4/25/2008 by caber]
Well if the Daily Mail says it, it must be true.
Not at all like them to make a scare story out of nothing.........
The UK has 67 days of fuel in storage for just this sort of thing.
Only 1 of the 9 refineries has closed. The other 8 have said they have increased production.
Whilst Grangemouth is being disrupted for almost a month in total, each bit of the plant will be closed for only 2 weeks.
Even if the other 8 plants hadn't increased production, we'd only lose 1% of the year's production country wide, or about 1/10 of the
amount we have stored.
Don't believe what journalists have to say, especially if they're trying to whip up panic.
Its getting ridiculace up here stopped for fuel today (£56 to fill the astra) the guy in front puts bloody £8 in the tank what an arsehole he must
have queued for 15 mins for that. I personally blame Gordon Brown, well i dont really i just thought id get in and say it first before the tories
do.
I can slightly understand the companies reason for stopping the pension scheme though the thing was a BP pension bags o money this company are not in
the same league as BP. Also the unite union are a waste of time they represent the guys i work with at our last pay dispute the company offered 2.5%
unite wanted 3.5% so they settled for 2.5% and air con in the new cars.
Id rather he stopped and put in 8 quid rather than brimming the tank when he doesnt need it!
I need to get gas for the car, fingers crossed there enough left for the half a tank Ill use this week.....
I suspect there will be shortages, but they won't be caused by the refinery closure. THey will be caused by people unnecessarily panic-buying
fuel they don't need because of the likes of the Daily Mail whipping up hysteria 
I have some sympathy for some of the 'panic buyers' - if a bloke needs his car/van to make his living, and he thinks that everyone's
going to buy up the fuel, then of course he's going to queue up with the rest.
It's the ones who already have 3/4 of a tank-full and only need the car to take their kiddies 1/2 mile to school that deserve the scorn...
we tend to only start struggling for supply when every one "panic buys" hence more ppl buy more meaning stations run out faster, if everone
just carrys on as if nothing was wrong then by the time the refinary gets going again you wouldnt have even known about a "possible
shortage"
anyway thats my 2pence