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Are we all prepared for the fuel tanker Driver's to go on strike ? Another excuse for some garages to put up the price of petrol and diesel. How many of us could do without our cars?

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I wonder if certain garages will be restricting who they sell to this time?

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ah yes i remember the day i walked pastteh margram garage in accy town center and saw the NO WHITES sign at its entrance.

Its changed hands since though and i think its now a Total petrol station and im sure its race policy will have improved :)

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Yeah, I'm prepared. I've taken Francis Maude's advice and filled up a billy can. And I don't even have a car.

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Can I buy it off you?

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The advice that is illegal and likely to lead to panic buying? Highly responsible!

What else is the government advising us to do? Keep a gun handy in case of intruders?

:rolleyes:

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Who knows what this government is capable of?

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Maybe its time to put the 50 litres I have in jerry cans in the cars tank and then refill them. Its been in there for to long now anyway.

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Has it not evaporated?

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Does petrol in jerry cans go off over time? Turns to a gooey mess, perhaps?

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i would fully support any government that allowed me to keep a gun in my home incase of intruders so teh next time i find myself with a strange rin my living room i can shoot him instead of throwing the xbox at the barsteward.

was an xbox1 as well so i bet the swines still limping lol

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Take a while to evaporate from a closed container!

I doubt it. In a jerry can there should be no problem:

Good quality gasoline should be stable almost indefinitely if stored properly. Such storage should be in an airtight container, to prevent oxidation or water vapors mixing, and at a stable cool temperature, to reduce the chance of the container leaking. When gasoline is not stored correctly, gums and solids may accumulate resulting in "stale fuel". The presence of these degradation products in fuel tank, lines, and carburetor or fuel injection components, make it harder to start the engine. Upon the resumption of regular vehicle usage, though, the buildups should eventually be cleaned up by the flow of fresh petrol.

Gasoline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Fire Brigade Union secretary "stressed it was against the law to store more than 10 litres of petrol in two -litre plastic containers in the home — a full-sized jerry can holds 22 litres." according to the Evening Standard. But a jerrycan is not a plastic container and expressly designed for holding and pouring fuel so not illegal.

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went shopping at Asda, hyndburn road,this afternoon and the petrol station was closed off with cones. Just wondered if panic buying exhausted supplies, dont know for sure as there was nothing posted to say why

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probbaly just having the pumps refilled davemac they have to cone off the station when its been done because of health and safety.

they sometimes shut rising bridge when refilling is happening

does anyone know where teh fuel line is on a mondeo estate coz if i run out i can sneak some outa my womans car shes a heavy sleeper :D

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Ya can you imagine what would have happened if the sign had read no coloureds allowed:rolleyes:

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i did ring the police to report it at the time but they said there was nothing they could do :rolleyes:

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And to think, people laughed when I bought that solar powered car. I knew, just knew, I would use it one day. Who's laughing now?

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Apparently Asda had sold out, Spar had people queuing to get on the forecourt all day and have had an extra tanker delivered today to cope with demand. Mr Cameron is not making many friends is he?? :rolleyes:

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Prostitutes will be putting up their prices.

As more people hire them, to go out syphoning.

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They would have done if it had have been the other way round:rolleyes:

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? That's a new word for it.

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I question the real motives behind this prospective strike, after all the tanker drivers are more than adequately compensated for the job they do. Mclusky is just another left wing, loud mouthed, troublemaker whose sole ambition is to return us to rule by the unions.

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where did you read that:confused:

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Spot on Stumped spot on

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Didn't need to read it we've seen it all before time and time and time again

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But you need a smart one; one who knows that "blow" is a metaphor of sorts.:rolleyes:;)

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well even if i run out of fuel and teh pumps run dry i will still support any blockade because the higher fuel gets the more expensive gas ,electricity and food becomes

does anyone remember when chicken was a cheap meat its a far cry from been cheap these days and its mainly down to covering the rise in fuel costs of having it delivered

tony blair managed to get diesil up to £1.54 per litre and it looks liek camerons after breaking that record

Government could take less in tax from fuel to ease any rise in the price of a barrel but then where would they get the money to give away hand over fist abroad while we who pay the flipping tax make do or go without :mad:

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So I guess Shanks' pony went to the knacker's yard.;)

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I used to buy petrol 4 gallon for a quid

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No chance of a repeat of the blockades by the owners of the haulage companies along with farmers and countryside alliance.. they are the backbone of tory support.

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I used to buy it for 40 cents a gallon ... guess all that shows is how old I'm gettin';):D But I was driving a '69 Dodge Charger with a 383 Magnum, six pack of carbs, headers ... that beast would pass anything but a gas station:D ... so the cheaper the better when you are getting about 12 miles to the gallon.

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Quality car that!

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Very nice, the bad guys muscle car, much better than the Mustang.

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Filling the car up has not gone up in price in the last ten years............................................. ...................................I always put £20 of fuel in.

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even if they wanted to tony blair made it an act of terrorism.Its amazing what that guy got away with under fear of terrorism.No one stripped us of basic democracey when the IRA struck multiple times yet a set of towers gets demolished in america and all of a sudden removing the right to protest becomes Tony Blairs main concern to battle terrorism :rolleyes:

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The blockade of fuel was against the law long before blair..it's been inplace for at least a 100yrs ..the blair government were afraid to impose the law because of public opinion ..the law was extended by thatcher early 80's before the miners strike by outlawing secondary picketing of fuel depots and fuel distributors.

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Latest.

The Government have advised people not to panic buy pasties after reports of queues outside Greggs.

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This Jerry Can directive from these clowns in power,should demonstrate to all but the totally stupid,they are not fit to govern,

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I wouldn't think so.. and it looks like Eric Pickles ain't to keen on the nonsense of a new pasty tax :D

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...s_2127615b.jpg

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i asked tonight and accy asda didnt run out of fuel today and has a delivery later tonight but the ques were big earlier today with panic buyers

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Not for all of us Eric;)

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BBC News - Drought conditions confirmed in parts of Yorkshire.

Tykes have been seen queuing at taps. God says extra deliveries will be made next week.

Francis Maude says 'If you are passing through Lancashire fill up a jerry can but in the meantime don't panic and carry on sharing baths'

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Yeah, how the hell does Francis Maude expect me to store all this petrol? My bath is full of stamps and pasties.

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Arrive in the UK next week -glad I've packed my walking boots:D

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Is it possible to keep sunshine in a jerry can in the shed, for those long Accy winters?

;)

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Well I have heard of Buckets of sunshine, but I don't think that's what you wanted Gynn.

Bucket of Sunshine - ARRSEpedia

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Is it 3.79 litre US gallons or real English 4.56 litre ones that you use?

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I filled up at Asda at about 8.30am this morning with no problem and no queue

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Honestly Neil, I can't remember.:confused: It's been over forty years since we went metric.

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I was just reading one of the "Taxi" threads ... I can't ever remember taking a cab in Accy. It was the bus or the train (you know you are getting old when you remember when the train fare from Accy to Ossy was three ha'pence single:eek:) And if you had dropped all your brass in the Black Dog, it was Shanks' pony all the way home. And only once did I fall into the cut:alright:

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Yea the two garages near where I live in St Annes are closed and now there is a mile long of cars blocking the road near Morrisons, the nearest other garage in Blackpool. Still. Im with the strikers, theres enough madness on the roads without making the tanker drivers rush to make deliveries....sheer madness and dangerous:eek:

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Jerry cans are marked as 20 litre, the extra space is for expansion.
Our cars are both diesel. I would not store large amounts of petrol at home, we usually have a 5 litre can for the mower/pressure washer.

There is no restriction on how much diesel you can store at home. Oil burning heating boilers burn red diesel so many homes could have around 2000 litres of the stuff at home usually in a plastic tank these days.

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Yes, it does.

We empty all our fuel containers in November and don't refill them over the winter season because our gardening machinery runs abysmally if we use petrol that is even a few months old.

The fuel companies must be laughing all the way to the bank this week.

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They will be yes but those that filled up and dont usually wont be buying any for a while so its swings and roundabouts.

I think the government are pulling a fast one. Everyones cars will be full so a strike over Easter will have little impact but the truck drivers are being blamed anyway.

Its people like me who have to fill up every week that would have a problem if there were real shortages.

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Can't you guys buy gasoline stabilizer over there? I use it in my bike when I store it for the winter. Some brands claim to be effective for two years.

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Sorry ... "petrol stabilizer":rolleyes::D

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Sounds like someone has gone native, and what's with the 'z'???

;)

It's not something I've heard of to be honest but the only thing we tend to use during winter is the chainsaw, the blower and the hedge cutter so one 2-stroke petrol can tends to be enough at any one time instead of the seven or eight we usually have on the go with the fleet in summer. All the tools get serviced during winter so to be honest it is a good opportunity for us to run down stocks of everything and buy fresh supplies in February when we start up again.

Fortunately, I had just filled all our cans on Tuesday ahead of this little announcement but if there really does end up being a fuel shortage we'll be pretty knackered in terms of garden maintenance as everything runs on petrol.

The government's timing just doesn't smell right on this one, I'm afraid.

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Agreed.

People aren't going to drive further than they need to, just because their tank's are full.

Some might drive less. Fearing a strike, and not wanting to waste any.

Though the government will have got a £32 million early cash injection in fuel duty, after yesterday's scaremongering.

PETROL QUEUES: £32 million fuel duty bonus from panic buying - AA (From South Wales Argus)

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read today that 67% is fuel duty and then the government gets vat on top of that as an extra earner

governments past and present blame the price of a barrell of oil ,a war going on or now irans nuclear policy and seem to think that the %67 fuel duty isnt part of teh problem at all

5 years ago it was 87p per litre theres absolutely no excuse what so ever for teh prices we are paying today other than motorists are an easy target.

how much revenue must the government genearte through the motorists either directly or indirectly?

fuel tax
fuel vat
road tax
insurance
M.O.T
parking fees
parking fines
speeding fines from cameras and mobile units

they should be giving us fuel for free to keep us on teh road so they can keep screwing us :rolleyes:

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thats because they are trying to boost consumption up. its a fiddle of the figures to try and tell us we are not in recession

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Consumption won't go up.

It's more likely people will drive less, if there's a threat of a strike.

The government gets exactly the same duty.

Just a little earlier than they would have.

Thanks to the panic buyers.

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asda petrol station shut,burnley road station 30 pound worth only,and thats the v power stuff only,more exspensive:(

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I don't quite get this.......there hasn't been any strike announced yet....only the possibility of one. The Army are being trained up to drive the tankers(just in case) and all this panic has been caused by the government.....who must now be rubbing their hands at the extra revenue they will get from this surge in buying.

Are motorists just daft or what?

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Stopped driving, and traded my car in, just at the right time.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...spPhsywY6lf7DA

Be fine.

Just as long as the Sedan Carriers Union don't join the strike.

:rolleyes:

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AMSOIL - Gasoline Stabilizer (AST)

There are lots of brands ... but they all do the same thing. All the hardware stores stock it.

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Both the government, for creating the scare, and the panic buyers are daft, for listening to them.

Some people easily fall into siege mentality.

I won't tell you what some people were prepared to do for six oven bottoms, when there was rumour of a flour shortage in the seventies.

:eek::D:eek:

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I can hazard a guess.

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Yo Eric!

Bring this tanker driver's strike on - I can't wait to start peddling round the clear streets of the capital, all thanks to your lot:

Bixi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No cars..no taxis..no lorries..paradise!

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How long have you been doing that?

Have you two collar studs, and a pair of silver shoe buckles?

I'll pay next time you're up.

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For years, on and off (literally).

Anyway, these days I use a Boris - it saves getting your bike pinched.

Have you seen that TV programme 'Sons of Anarchy'?

I do a variation - "'Sons of Accy - London branch'."

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Did they make a killing in a certain bakers shop:D

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No, my Grandad was very fair.

I think you're thinking of Mrs. Miggin's pie shop, down Church.

I think they did.

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:D

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Not to mention the government who will be raking in millions in tax to fund their exorbitant lifestyles.

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Well. one good thing - if people are going to have to walk some more rather than use thier car or the local cab firm - then hopefully the obscene levels of local obesity and the subsequent cost on the NHS may well drop.

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But the increased amount of McDonalds wrappers, empty crisp bags, pizza plates and beer cans are bound to supplement the dog-dirt polluting the streets.

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Not quite...who is going to deliver the junk food and the variations of saturated fat?

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theyve not been on strike yet lol this goverment is a shambles:D

Now I won't say your completly wrong, I will agree that this Government is a shambles, I also suspect given the present economy a Labour Government would also be a shambles.
Could you clarify something for me? Is this Government more of a shambles because:-
They should have forced the drivers to go on strike sooner?
Or
Because they probably don't want the drivers to go on strike?

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got me thinking today that the tanker drivers will as of now be making extra deliveries, therefore getting wacking amounts of money for overtime, so even if they do strike they've already made up their shortfall of cash.

Saw this pic on facebook tonight, made me giggle!

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To be honest all governments make cock up's and the same goes for 13 years of Labour.. but this time we have two of the major parties working together and within less than two years they have managed to cock up everything.:D

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You sure about that ? Could any government really manage to run a country with so many millions of idiots living in it that go out panic buying something that there isn't even a shortage of yet.

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When a goverment tells the population to stock up with petrol and fill the tanks up then millions of people will do just that..fact is millions of people can be conned by any government.:eek:

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they created the panic everybody knows its to deflect the prediction saying we are back in recession.

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So how come when the government tells people to drink sensibly the drunken scroats are still in abundance in Accrington centre ?

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because hopefully they dont drive ;)

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Maybe they are a minority and not millions of people.. Dave can you give any reason people are stock pilling fuel other than the government have told them to do so?.. people maybe thick but if we don't take the advice of a national government who should we take advice from? :confused:

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Obviously not them! Its use yer loaf time, most of us have common sense, seems there's less folk with some than I thought.

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Have to disagree wi that, What were the media focussing on before this stupid announcement? They were focusing on those Donors having dinner at No 10, n fair getting slagged fer it!,by the public as well as media, So the owd ploy of diverting the attention away was used, The general public,consisting of millions of idiots, bought it hook line @ sinker.:rolleyes:

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Anyway, just heard that the Burka Brigade may well have just elected Gorgeous George Galloway as MP for Bradford West/East Lancs East in the bye election. Therefore as part of his election manifesto, cars will be banned from those towns where the muslims outnumber the native peoples. So no more taxis or cars for you lot - it's either a mule, donkey or the roof top of a single decker bus.

Bon Voyage!

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I read about the UK slipping back into recession ... And this ham-fisted action of the government over a potential work stoppage:confused:! Why don't they just do as other slime ball right wing governments do: wait for the strike to start and then pass back-to-work legislation pdq. But tv footage of line-ups, perhaps the odd fight, and empty gas stations is much more entertaining than some talking head mentioning that there will be a 0.03% shrinkage in the G.D.P. over the next quarter.;)

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If the government told them all to jump on the fire.....do you think they would do that too?

Stock piling fuel is dangerous.....and stupid as a strike hasn't happened yet. It just shows how many drivers are either selfish , stupis or perhaps even a bit of both. Can't they see that their actions are creating the problem that they want to avoid, and creating lots of lovely extra dosh for the government?

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there are already laws, people forget they have to wait 7 days to strike.

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Not all of us Cashy....not all of us!

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They played right into the hands of Cameron.

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I have got just under half a tank so I think I will be ok until all this calms down! :)

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Well aware, i said millions not all.;) By the way a women from york in hospital wi 40% burns,from transferring fuel in her kitchen, But Cameron @ Co wont give a toss.

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You work close to home, many of us have had to follow our work and now drive quite a way to work each day. I need to do 650 miles between now and thursday.

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It is a terrible thing that has happened to her but you have to be a complete idiot to pour petrol from one container to another inside your house, she was doing it in the kitchen while using the cooker.

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i wondered if she had the cooker on while doing it but couldnt be bothered looking up teh story to be honest

i just put it down under "thinning of the herd"

as terrible as it is stupidity played a huge factor in it happening if the cooker was lit at the time as well as playing with petrol indoors which is bad enough regardless of the cooker situation.

as much as i despise cameron and he cant be held resposible for individuals stupidity