Re: Slightly OT - Petrol Panic + aside to Doug.
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:41:19 +0100
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:33:35 +0100, "David Kemper"
<david.kemper@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>I have to go to Heathrow on Thursday, park up for a few days and then
>drive back home at the end of the month. I won't buy fuel in the UK again
>until July.
I'd buy it before going away if I were you. God knows what ridic ...
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Re: CO2 and GW is good for the planet.
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:18:08 +0100
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:13:26 +0100 someone who may be David Hansen
<SENDdavidNOhSPAM@spidacom.co.uk> wrote this:-
>[2] In ye olden days the voltage in the UK was to be 240V +/-6%.
>There was an agreement in 1998 to standardise voltages at 230V -6%
>+10%, from 1/1/95, throughout Europe. [snip]
>
>The precise da ...
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Story Doug missed!!!
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:01:31 +0100
Here's a story that has all the Doug ingredients- injured child, pavement
etc.
Wonder why he didn't post this one?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026806/Mother-tells-terrifying-moment-daughter-knocked-injured-cyclist.html
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So panic buyers, feeling a bit stupid now?
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:50:47 -0700 (PDT)
Shell tanker drivers are back at work , fuel is being delivered once
more (though it always was to every other companies outlets anyway)
and the sky hasn't fallen down and the world hasn't ended in some post
civilisation collapse.
So retards, care to explain your moronic behaviour over the w/e?
B2003 ...
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¡ê200 insurance rise for drivers on phone
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:48:44 -0700 (PDT)
Is this really enough to cover the serious risks to others posed by
talking while driving?
"Motorists caught using their mobile phones at the wheel may have to
pay hundreds of pounds more for car insurance.
Leading insurers now consider the offence as serious as unsafe driving
and could make guilty drivers pa ...
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Drivers now charged almost ¡ê2 a litre as one in four petrol stations face running out of fuel
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:44:47 -0700 (PDT)
Still too cheap but more realistic though.
"Petrol station bosses were accused of profiteering yesterday after it
was revealed that a garage was charging up to ¡ê2 a litre at the pumps.
The astonishing price - which equates to ¡ê9 a gallon - came on the
fourth and final day of a strike by Shell tanker drivers.
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Island airport.
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:41:36 -0700 (PDT)
Why not?
"...And people living under Heathrow's flight path might be keen on an
audacious plan to move the airport to an offshore island in the Thames
Estuary.
The proposed project would cost ¡ê30billion according to the Thames
Estuary Airport Company (Teac), who believe the project could be
solely funded by ...
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V-Power fuel
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:30:55 +0100
If the various expensive brands of unleaded and diesel do something good to
your engine, is it worth buying a tankful of expensive once a month just to
clean the crap out of the system?
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Re: Slightly OT - Petrol Panic
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:41:55 +0100
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:27:07 +0100, "Michael C" <warped@warblyet.tyc>
wrote:
>"David Kemper" <david.kemper@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>news:mSA5k.168908$UP6.12728@newsfe14.ams2...
>>
>> I know I'm jumping into someone else's argument here; but I don't see that
>> it any of your flaming business who fills ...
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Re: Slightly OT - Petrol Panic
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:58:08 +0100
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:21:00 +0100, "Michael C" <warped@warblyet.tyc>
wrote:
><middlelight@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>news:09hd54du6vptpg1fns4ep5411oi4bua74t@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:33:19 +0100, "Michael C" <warped@warblyet.tyc>
>> wrote:
>>>>>Nonsense. This strike has been known about fo ...
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