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Title: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 10 May 2021, 06:59:21
....may go up significantly in the next week, if this isn't sorted out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57050690
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Varche on 10 May 2021, 09:08:50
I am surprised there aren’t more incidences of such crime or devilment. Maybe they don’t get reported unless like this it has an obvious effect.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: biggriffin on 10 May 2021, 10:16:07
Oil companies will find any excuse to raise the prices, it's good for shareholders and pension companies.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 10 May 2021, 14:59:16
It's quite likely to be a deliberate act to destabilise public trust in pipelines as a forerunner to shutting it down.

Pump prices in the States have almost doubled since February.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 10 May 2021, 15:50:19
You'd think that they could send a little man (or woman) to go out and manually open the valves with one of those big steering wheel type thingies.   :)

That's progress for you!  :y   ;D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: biggriffin on 10 May 2021, 21:47:38
It's quite likely to be a deliberate act to destabilise public trust in pipelines as a forerunner to shutting it down.

Pump prices in the States have almost doubled since February.

 Wow must nearly be £1.00 a gallon :)
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 11 May 2021, 13:33:08
It's quite likely to be a deliberate act to destabilise public trust in pipelines as a forerunner to shutting it down.

Pump prices in the States have almost doubled since February.

 Wow must nearly be £1.00 a gallon :)

Yesterday it was $2.96 on average, so cheap to us, but our American friends will continue to cry about it.  They moaned to me in 1998 about it reaching $1 per gallon, so this is a disaster! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 11 May 2021, 17:38:06
Dont forget their gallons are smaller than ours.  ;) Still cheap as chips compared to the UK though.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 11 May 2021, 18:33:06
Dont forget their gallons are smaller than ours.  ;) Still cheap as chips compared to the UK though.
It used to be the case that the average tank over there only did 15mpg, don't know if that's still the case.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 11 May 2021, 19:47:16
Dont forget their gallons are smaller than ours.  ;) Still cheap as chips compared to the UK though.
It used to be the case that the average tank over there only did 15mpg, don't know if that's still the case.

Apart from the gas guzzlers that some Americans still drive, the majority of cars are Japanese, European, or other ‘economy’ examples.  In 1990 there were still plenty of big engined American automobiles to choose from, in 1998 we even hired a 5.5 litre Ford Crown Victoria - a brilliant sedan, but when I visited in 2010 we were so disappointed. Toyotas, Mercs, BMW’s  and other European type engined cars were everywhere. Even the GM, Dodge and other home built vehicles had economy type engines, but were vastly out numbered by ‘our type of car”.Muscle cars still exist, but in far fewer numbers than back in the day! :'( :'(

Gone had the good old days of true American automobile motoring. :'( :'(
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 12 May 2021, 03:11:57
https://youtu.be/ioy1bO7aEFQ
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 12 May 2021, 07:41:08
US petrol supplies tighten after Colonial Pipeline hack https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57081386
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 12 May 2021, 10:28:35
The supply of those damn fossil fuels have become so unreliable that everyone will have to buy electric cars and we'll let the next generation worry about the electricity supplies!  :y
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Rangie on 12 May 2021, 10:33:52
Pedal power for me , there is no way I will ever purchase an electric car if petrol/diesel ever ceases to be I'm afraid, it just ain't right..😂
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 14 May 2021, 18:37:23
Apparently, a $5 million ransom changed hands to get the pipeline up and running.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2021, 19:21:19
What did you expect from that pussy of an excuse in the White House :-X
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 14 May 2021, 19:26:06
What did you expect from that pussy of an excuse in the White House :-X
Nothing to do with him, a purely commercial decision. If he's got a pussy, he'd better watch out the orange sex offender doesn't grab it  ;D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2021, 19:29:06
By saying it's a 'private company and therefore a private matter' when a third of the country is being held to ransome is almost treasonous.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 14 May 2021, 19:30:29
Have a read of this, should play into your idiocy lunacy conspiracy theory mindset:  ;D

Arizona recount: Why Republicans are still tallying votes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57089359
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2021, 19:31:59
I believe Bidens pussy is safe from Donald... It's far too old.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 14 May 2021, 19:44:58
I believe Bidens pussy is safe from Donald... It's far too old.
Safe until at least 2024  ;D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2021, 19:52:00
The seat maybe... His pussy will gone after the mid terms... Assuming he doesn't have another stroke before then.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 14 May 2021, 19:55:09
The seat maybe... His pussy will gone after the mid terms... Assuming he doesn't have another stroke before then.
I seem to remember you saying Donald would win the last election. Easily, no doubt about it, without question, so you'll forgive me if I doubt your assumptions.  ;D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2021, 20:00:58
You still presume that he didn't  :D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 14 May 2021, 20:02:11
You still presume that he didn't  :D
Fûckin self-abuser  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Nick W on 14 May 2021, 20:45:03
By saying it's a 'private company and therefore a private matter' when a third of the country is being held to ransom is almost treasonous.


That's why right-wingers insist infrastructure be kept or made private. Biden and Harris would fit in well with many UK Tories like Cameron or May.
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2021, 21:16:29
Ok, if it had been that pipe that runs from Fawley to Heathrow and Gatwick, would Boris have left it to Esso or Shell?
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 14 May 2021, 21:23:34
Ok, if it had been that pipe that runs from Fawley to Heathrow and Gatwick, would Boris have left it to Esso or Shell?

No he'd have got British Petroleum on to it!  :y
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Nick W on 14 May 2021, 21:34:46
Ok, if it had been that pipe that runs from Fawley to Heathrow and Gatwick, would Boris have left it to Esso or Shell?


Is there one that isn't owned by Esso? As well as the one that runs from an Esso refinery to an Esso storage depot?
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: STEMO on 14 May 2021, 21:36:44
If they attacked an oil pipe here, they'd only ask for twenty quid.  ;D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2021, 22:01:43
Austin Powers Doctor Evil GIF https://media1.giphy.com/media/13B1WmJg7HwjGU/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952641098c37321d7cddfffe63074e05b5dff08cf4f&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g ;D
Title: Re: Oil prices
Post by: BazaJT on 19 May 2021, 07:50:52
Apparently the issue wasn't that the pipeline was shut down or affected,but rather that the companys billing process was hit so they couldn't get paid for what they were supplying.