Fuel Queues

mariesnowgoose said:
Looks suspiciously like fuel rationing to me :)

Welcome back to the 70s (y);)
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So Diesel has gone up something like 40p a litre? and within that price rise is 20% extra VAT on the increase. And maybe the fuel duty? (not sure it that is a percentage of the cost per litre, or a fixed anount per litre). But that means the cost of a litre ex tax has risen less than 34p?
saying "risen less than 34p/Litre" may sound a bit of a joke, until you speak to people who need to fill their heating tanks. OIl there has gone up over £1/ Litre in less than 3 weeks. How can heating oil have gone up at twice the amount the rate of Diesel (and nearly a 100% increase)
These folk going on about the gas price increase need to think themselves lucky!
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Heating oil co always stuff the price up as soon as someone hiccups, when mine runs low I'm sleeping and living in the van at my f door.
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Trotter said:
Time to scrap either 20% vat, or the fuel surcharge? If only temporary.
We can no longer blame Brussels.
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From a Portuguese resident 4 days ago:-

"I’ve been receiving €5 a month for a while now to offset fuel prices. The govt. has just raised this allowance to €20 p/month & are cutting vat on fuel. Força Portugal".
 
Are they a pensioner or is it available for all residents?
 
mariesnowgoose said:
No idea, you'd need to look into it 🤷‍♀️

Pauljenny or REC might know a bit more about it?
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All residents can sign up...think it was overwhelmed when increase was announced but working now. Fuel has shot up in price here same as everywhere else, it's good that action is taken like this. Although only certain fuel stations initially, think more have joined scheme now. €20 each driver / month
 
need to top up with 20 pounds as i dont like it getting below the half way mark.............and this little panda seems to gobble it up like its never been fed before......going to take a note of the mileage before filling it up,,,,,,,

is rationing coming in next month ???????
 
trixie88 said:
need to top up with 20 pounds as i dont like it getting below the half way mark.............and this little panda seems to gobble it up like its never been fed before......going to take a note of the mileage before filling it up,,,,,,,

is rationing coming in next month ???????
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Who knows, Trixie. Anything's possible 🤷‍♀️
 
trixie88 said:
need to top up with 20 pounds as i dont like it getting below the half way mark.............and this little panda seems to gobble it up like its never been fed before......going to take a note of the mileage before filling it up,,,,,,,

is rationing coming in next month ???????
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Dont fill the tank up as you are carrying extra weight which raises fuel consumption, keep tyres at the correct pressure and remember slow city/village driving halves the milage you get, cold starts & short trips also drinks fuel, buy a electric nissan leaf for that type of driving.
 
trevskoda said:
Dont fill the tank up as you are carrying extra weight which raises fuel consumption, keep tyres at the correct pressure and remember slow city/village driving halves the milage you get, cold starts & short trips also drinks fuel, buy a electric nissan leaf for that type of driving.
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yes thats the reason trev...slow short trips.......need to keep it topped up...........NO CHANCE of buying elec vehicle for the driving i do.....only ever had older vehicles............anyway way things are going soon wont be able to drive cos there wont be any petrol.......hmmm.
 
We have a grain feed mill just down the road that had it's oil stolen. Below is just a few similar thefts taken from the 1st page on Google.

Warning after a further north-east incident of cooking oil theft​

https://www.grampianonline.co.uk › news › warning-af...



15 Feb 2022 — "Used cooking oils are being stolen across the country and being taken south to be processed. "Keep rear gardens or yards securely locked and ...



Newcastle haulage depot has fuel 'worth £25000' stolen​

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk › news › north-east-news



3 days ago — 15,000 litres of fuel, worth roughly £25,000, has been snatched from a storage facility on Sandy Lane Industrial Estate in Newcastle.


Newcastle fuel theft from haulage depot 'worth £24000' - BBC​

https://www.bbc.co.uk › uk-england-tyne-60683664



4 days ago — Thieves have stolen thousands of litres of fuel from a haulage depot in north-east England. The 15,000 litres of diesel, worth about £24,000 ...


Investigation after thieves drain heating oil from north-east ...​

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk › news › pupils-sent...



11 Jan 2018 — An investigation has been launched into the theft from Methlick Primary School, which is believed to have occurred at some point over the school ...


Warning as fuel thefts rise in York and North Yorkshire​

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk › news › 19799285.warni...



21 Dec 2021 — Thieves are targeting heating oil fuel tanks as prices hit record levels ... in North East England with police issuing security warnings.



Washington actively involved in illegal oil trade from northeast ...​

https://tass.com › world



Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service noted that about a third of the stolen oil was being sold to the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq at a price of ...


Cooking oil thefts on the increase - Neighbourhood Alert​

https://www.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk › Cooking_oil_t...



28 Dec 2021 — North East Division Crime Reduction Officer PC Mike Urquhart said 'I would advise restaurant and fast food outlet owners to be particularly ...


Three men arrested for cooking oil thefts from pubs - Eastern ...​

https://www.edp24.co.uk › news › crime › wroxham-m...



9 Nov 2021 — Three men from the Wroxham area have been arrested after series of cooking oil thefts from The Green Man pub in Rackheath and others in ...


Heating Oil Stolen | The Northern Echo​

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk › news › 10144948...



7 Jan 2013 — Nearly 600 litres of heating oil has been stolen from a property in ... 3 Police find body in search for missing North East man ...


Oil theft: Statistics show rural homes are targets for thieves​

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk › news › oil-t...



24 Feb 2021 — Over 25,000 oil thefts were reported in 2018 and the problem still ... North Yorkshire Police also urged people in rural areas to take extra ...
 
No surprise at all to me, Ral. 🤷‍♀️

We are entering a new era. Expect to see a lot more of this over the coming weeks/months.

Anyway - how much do you need, pet? ;)
I've got a continuous supply on hand up here. Special discount for friends - £5 a litre 👍😁
 
Common sense tells you that fuel rationing WILL be starting. Take out the Russian deliveries of crude and how do the refineries make up the difference ?......Norway has made it clear they cannot allocate more, the Saudi region are between a rock and a hard place if they start pumping more, The SNP have blocked all Shells attempts at starting a new field, the US has Venezuala under sanctions they do not want to lift and the US will not export to us. We can get log from Bahrain but it will take time to set up apparently. China will outbid anyone to get their hands on more crude, so certainly for diesel there are problems looming unless the Government start using the 91 day emergency fuel reserve that is the doomsday stock in the event of disaster/nuclear war etc.
 
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