strike threat at oil refinery

[father ted]

i wouldnt panic buy as the indusrty hold`s a lot of fuel back depending on where you stay it should be ok for a while as we are shut down it takes a while to start back up you cant just throw a switch and it goes on it would take over 3 weeks to get back up and running again

[Tizzer22]

I only have 4 stations in my area, its the other people though that cause it by panicking and full there tanks and then once fuel stations have shortages the prices will rise, i'll wait the now though and see how my local garage is by later tonight, thanks for the info once again ted.

[father ted]

I only have 4 stations in my area, its the other people though that cause it by panicking and full there tanks and then once fuel stations have shortages the prices will rise, i'll wait the now though and see how my local garage is by later tonight, thanks for the info once again ted.

your wellcome ill be able to update tomoorw as well but as far as i know talks are still ongoing so that good thing

[johnny151]

i have contracts delivering newspapers to newsagents and i've been told as it's "media" we're a protected business and if we require filling up we can request a police escort to the filling stations.....anyone heard of this?

[Tizzer22]

The fuels started to dry up here since yesterday evening, thank god i went to the station on Monday night.

[swadger25]

there wont be a shortage.!!!!

[father ted]

trust me there will be no fuel shortage some time 2 night we will unload a ship with fuel for all emercancy servcies ie hospitals fire ambulance,hospitals old folks home children homes police etc etc and this will continue

[gavo2008]

and all the petrol stations round here are putting price up because of the mini rush

[father ted]

and all the petrol stations round here are putting price up because of the mini rush

wot you should do is boycott these ppl they are getting their normal supplies and more so they are selling more petrol and making profits we havnt increased the price of petrol from the refinery to them its them doing it to everyone

[fireman1374]

Hydrogen all the way, water is much cheaper!

[Tizzer22]

Back to normal in my area now.

[father ted]

ok guys update from me this is an actual part from an email sent to us

"A meeting was held in London today between Jim Ratcliffe and Tom Crotty of Ineos and the Joint General Secretaries of Unite, Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley.
"It was a constructive and meaningful discussion and ended in a proposal that will be considered by the company and the union in the coming days with a view to finding a resolution to the pension?s dispute."

It is hoped the proposal will lead to a solution to this dispute.

[father ted]

ok update we have been back to work for 4 days now and we have been working flat out to get the plants up and running by sun we should have alot of them up and running to let yous understand we have some small plant`s to run so that otheres can run its not just a matter of starting up the main one we need little ones all around to make them all tick and this we are doing well (so much for the company saying it would take several weeks )anyway have been told we should be producing by tues which is no mean feat ,this does not mean that the dispute is over our full time officials have got some concessions from the company and we are prepaired to talk to them i cant tell you what has been said as i havnt been told fully and we dont want any rumours about what has happened till its been disccused with everyone but will keeps yus informed so far its looking goood but well have to get the full sp and understand it all b4 we can say its finished