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Comment Re: Plenty of fuel (Score 1) 354

I started looking into that but you rapidly start getting into number of storage tanks per pump, number of pumps, size of storage tanks, number of deliveries, size of deliveries.. then there are the number of cars usually serviced, the frequency, the impact of people stockpiling..

It's interesting but too much to fit in amongst work so I decided to merely accept that getuid() and I disagree, without properly enumerating the size of the challenge of meeting his expectations.

Comment Re: Plenty of fuel (Score 0) 354

After dozens of lawsuits, neither Trump's legal team, nor Barr's justice department could produce a single piece of evidence in court.

That'll be why Trump and his legal team and other supporters of his have won several court cases relating to the election.

Please, pretending evidence doesn't exist doesn't magic it away. It still exists.

Comment Re:tHe SiNgApOrE oF eUrOuPe (Score 0) 354

Given how the idiot squad piled on in outrage (then other members used 'troll' moderations to try and silence non-trolling views) I'm very comfortable that what you call 'bullshit' is good common sense.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2Fa%2Fmu1HfZ5 has too many utter fuckwits in it for me to be wrong.

Comment Re: Plenty of fuel (Score 0, Troll) 354

How is the USA deal going?

It was going great until the US election got fixed and a dementia ridden imbecile that hates the UK because he's "Irish". Now it's merely "better than the EU".

Looking forward to Aussie

You do realise the UK imported meat from Australia before signing the deal? No, you don't. That would require knowing something instead of parrotting someone else's propaganda.

Comment Re:tHe SiNgApOrE oF eUrOuPe (Score 0) 354

Thanks for linking to the anti-brexit BBC and to the politically biased fullfact.

I don't live in a different reality, I use information sources that go beyond a mass media that still can't accept that after a referendum, a general election, a european election and another general election, the UK doesn't want to be part of an EU superstate.

It's been a clear and consistent message and it would be lovely if people could actually get behind their country instead of repeatedly trying to betray it to the EU.

Comment Re: Plenty of fuel (Score -1, Troll) 354

I went shopping yesterday. There were empty shelves: The local co-op is out of eggs.

They get their eggs from a farm that's 16 miles away. Oh no, let's blame Brexit!!

Do the EU countries have full shelves? I'm confident that their stock levels are at best no better than the UK.

Comment Re: Plenty of fuel (Score -1, Troll) 354

How _is_ Brexit making this worse?

Shit, the industry has been described this week as 'low pay with terrible working conditions' - in the same articles pointing out that 99% of workers are 'white men'.

Not being able to import more white men from the EU (not that there are any available; there are shortages there too) who will be willing to work in shitty conditions for low pay means haulage companies will have to improve conditions and improve pay. Maybe even to a level that women and non-white men might even consider taking jobs.

Seems to me there's a direct causation that Brexit will improve diversity and raise wages for a currently exploited group of workers. I can support that.

Comment Re: Plenty of fuel (Score 2) 354

What you're forgetting is that petrol stations receive 1-2 deliveries a week.

So even assuming everybody fills their car every 2 weeks, there'll be 2-3 deliveries to restock through that period.

If everybody fills their car on the same day, you now need to supply 3-4 times your normal stock levels in a single day.

Your argument is that they should have the reserves to do that. So you've just tripled or quadrupled the capital tied up in stock, purely to handle a very very rare event.

It doesn't make financial sense. It's beyond the economics of most fuel stations. They just don't have that much money.

Comment Re:tHe SiNgApOrE oF eUrOuPe (Score 0, Troll) 354

the UK also had trade deals with the rest of the world because the EU hammered them out with its economic weight & bargaining power. Now the UK has fuck all and has to crawl like a supplicant

You missed me pointing out that the UK already has better trade deals outside the EU than the EU does.

We're also negotiating other deals.

We're doing better than the EU because we can negotiate for what we need, not for what 27 other countries need. Ask Greece and Portugal how well they're doing, with all the economic power in the EU in Germany.

I'm so sorry the UK is making a tremendous success of Brexit and that it's making the EU look even shitter in comparison. Come and join us, we're open for trade. Unlike the EU.

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