Petrol shortages near you?

[jukel123 10,459]

Long queues outside many petrol stations throughout Scotland. I think rationing will be on the  cards.

I can clearly remember there being rationing coupons issued in the 70s. But I'm not sure the scheme ever got off the ground. Me and a mate had a small business at the time which required a van. I went round to visit him one Sunday night and he beckoned me into his garden. f**k me he'd dug a huge pit and had stored about a dozen large Jerry cans full of fuel in it.

In the interests of health and safety he'd hidden the pit under planks. Thinking back he would have jailed if caught. It was basically a fire bomb waiting to go off.

[pesky1972 5,992]

All self inflicted. Usual fcukwits filling jerry cans etc. trying to stay ahead of prices rising a pound or two.
And I can clearly remember that for 100 years Scotland could refine crude and produce its own fuel, until Grangemouth was closed last year.., and whilst a ‘nationalist’ government looked on. Fcuking treachery. 

[mackem 31,854]

Petrol has gone up to a quid (equivalent) a litre.

[iworkwhippets 13,305]

Queues at London road petrol station Colchester ,  £164 per litre 

[mackem 31,854]

5 minutes ago, iworkwhippets said:

  £164 per litre 

Bargain

[iworkwhippets 13,305]

4 minutes ago, mackem said:

Bargain

Nope this is a bargain, I'm.sure in the late 70,s I paid 50.p.a gallon.10.bob 

[jukel123 10,459]

When I was a kid of  14, in 1964, I had a job pumping gas as the yanks say.

Petrol was two old shillings and sixpence a gallon ( about 4 litres in a gallon). 

Nobody had thought about mpg in those days. It wasn't an issue.

Cars being able  to get 50+  mpg only arrived on the market after the petrol shortages in the 70s.

I bet Tesla and the Chinese electric car manufacturers are rubbing their hands together at the moment.

Edited 7 hours ago by jukel123

[NEWKID 30,125]

23 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

When I was a kid of  14, in 1964, I had a job pumping gas as the yanks say.

Petrol was two old shillings and sixpence a gallon ( about 4 litres in a gallon). 

Nobody had thought about mpg in those days. It wasn't an issue.

Cars being able  to get 50+  mpg only arrived on the market after the petrol shortages in the 70s.

I bet Tesla and the Chinese electric car manufacturers are rubbing their hands together at the moment.

A lot of lads laughed at me on my thread the other day, not laughing at my new electric motor now are they! Lol

[WILF 53,220]

2 minutes ago, NEWKID said:

A lot of lads laughed at me on my thread the other day, not laughing at my new electric motor now are they! Lol

When the power went down here last year for 2 weeks, everyone with an electric car couldn’t go anywhere after 3 days ! ……just saying ! lol 

[mackem 31,854]

29 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

When I was a kid of  14, in 1964, I had a job pumping gas as the yanks say.

There’s a gas station near here two young lads still fill your vehicle with gas,even in the dead of winter,old fashioned sort of place.

[jukel123 10,459]

2 minutes ago, mackem said:

There’s a gas station near here two young lads still fill your vehicle with gas,even in the dead of winter,old fashioned sort of place.

Confession. I  was once going to put petrol in a bloke's radiator. I think it was a Volksvagen where you lifted the bonnet to fill it with petrol. The radiator top was situated near to the petrol tank.

Well that's my excuse!

The owner  soon put me right with some choice language.

[iworkwhippets 13,305]

37 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

When I was a kid of  14, in 1964, I had a job pumping gas as the yanks say.

Petrol was two old shillings and sixpence a gallon ( about 4 litres in a gallon). 

Nobody had thought about mpg in those days. It wasn't an issue.

Cars being able  to get 50+  mpg only arrived on the market after the petrol shortages in the 70s.

I bet Tesla and the Chinese electric car manufacturers are rubbing their hands together at the moment.

eeh,   eh, them wut days ,  two old shillings and sixpence, Half a crown.i remember em.well 

 

[jukel123 10,459]

22 minutes ago, mackem said:

There’s a gas station near here two young lads still fill your vehicle with gas,even in the dead of winter,old fashioned sort of place.

I've just googled which car it was. The original beetle.

When I was in Crete about 30 years back, there were still plenty abandoned by the jerries after the war.

I was speaking in pigeon English to a Greek bloke. He told me his wife and children had been killed in the war. 

He also told me his friend, a shepherd, had met a German tourist years after the war. The Fritz had come back to see the place where  he was stationed .

The shepherd invited him back to his cottage telling him he had something important to show him.

So they entered his cottage.  The shepherd  immediately went over to his sideboard, pulled out a pistol and shot jerry dead.

Holiday of lifetime!

 

Edited 7 hours ago by jukel123

[NEWKID 30,125]

32 minutes ago, WILF said:

When the power went down here last year for 2 weeks, everyone with an electric car couldn’t go anywhere after 3 days ! ……just saying ! lol 

The kids shit themselves when we get a power cut for more than an hour...what about the wi-fi!! Lol

I reckon ill be alright mate, got back up! Lol

[mackem 31,854]

10 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

a shepherd, had met a German tourist years after the war. The Fritz had come back to see the place where  he was stationed .

The shepherd invited him back to his cottage telling him he had something important to show him.

So they entered his cottage.  The shepherd  immediately went over to his sideboard, pulled out a pistol and shot jerry dead.

Holiday of lifetime!

Take that boche,one way ticket for Fritz ja?