The UK is becoming the setting for a Mad Max film!

[Kaj]

SteveC-> I know it's a bit inapropriate, but LOL

[Raptor^]

All the tanker drivers are now refusing to leave the refineries too, to support their long distance truck driving friends I suppose....

Could just be to make sure Tony Blair's promise stands no chance of being met though

dZeus - you have seperate lanes for cycles? Here cars and bikes share the same lane most of the time. I have 3 ppl in my car everyday to work, so cycling would be hard

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[Kaj]

Belgium is facing the same MadMax-setting as the UK does; from the looks of it, they expect to run out of fuel in some mayor xities at the end of this day.

And Raptor^-> Yes, we mostly have separate lanes for bicycles and cars, fortunately.

[The PIT]

Hows this for over the top. Once place they had thirty protestors which the police said were peaceful so the police sent got there numbers up to 300 just in case theres trouble. However since there were so many copers they couldn't get the tankers out anyway.

[SteveC]

Oh My God! The PIT - you are right!!! check out http://www.sky.com/news/uk/story1.htm The ARMY has been called in and is ready to go!

About 80 Army, RAF and Navy tankers have been "deployed, not employed", in the words of the Ministry of Defence, meaning they are not yet supplying fuel, but are ready to do so.

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"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

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[xortam]

Last I heard 90% of the stations were out of Petrol but the Police escorted some 100 tankers through the barricades.

Amazing how many of the world's problems surround our dependence on oil. I look forward to the day when we have deployed alternative, affordable solutions. I would like to see hybrid-powered vehicles that can use a multitude of fuels (singularly or in combination) according to their availability and cost. I know that electrical/gasoline hybrids are know available and hydrogen cell vehicles are being tested. We just need to get this technology affordable and widely deployed. How would that change the politics of the world?

[uberlad]

WE may as well all stock up on shotguns and turbochargers, 24 hours is the least realistic estimate ever.

The news this morning suggested that even should the blockade be broken toay, normality (such that it is) wouldn't return for well over two weeks. I presume this means that the further from the depot you are, the worse it's gonna be for longer.

Uberlad - Off to weld spikes onto his Micra.


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[The PIT]

You would think with modern technology todays motor car would be capable of 80 to 100 mpg or running on an a alternative fuel.
How much preasure are the oil companies putting on car manufactures not to change.
By the way last night walking home someone offered me £25 quid for a gallon of petrol. Strangly I don't walk around with it.

[Kaj]

The PIT-> £25? That bad eh?
The reason why fuelcells; hybride-powered vehicles and such are experiencing such heavy delay is simple: Money! The oilcompanies are making so ridicoulously much profit on oil-based products, they'll buy anything that might endanger those profits and keep it out of the market.
Luckily Mazda and a few other companies are working hard to integrate fuelcells into their productline, I even saw a working MX3 with fuelcell at the AutoRAI. (last year, I believe)

[SteveC]

Oh well, it's all coming to an end now. (Until 60 days' time, then it'll probably restart!)
It's quite funny really how one farmer (Brynle Williams) has basically gained control of the country off of Blair, Brown and Co. It just shows this government's inability to govern....

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[Chris Blake]

It just shows this government's inability to govern....

Spot on. The sooner we get rid of Tony "sincerity" Blair the better, roll on next year!

[Ant]

Yeah but what can we replace Tony Bland with? All there is is that daft slap 'ed that the Tories have. Isn't it scarey.

[The PIT]

Yep what alternative have we got. Theres always the libs but I can't see that.

[The PIT]

Oh forgot to mention Jack Straw is having meetings to find out how they can prevent blockades in future. How about getting in toutch with reality, that may help. Does Labour want to got back to the wilderness years of the eighties and early nineties?
Oh and also the police videoed the protestors in case there was going to be trouble. Since there wasn't are they going to destroy the videos I think not.

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