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129 comments on Grangemouth/Forties Update: Forties pipeline remains shut down (Thread 2)
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Still very little mainstream media coverage in the UK, certainly nothing on the front pages of the newspapers or the BBC. Makes you wonder if they're under instructions to avoid raising a panic...
I'm wondering if it's not seen as the first real opportunity to direct the public into different patterns of behaviour and expectation.
Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, is pledging that Scotland has enough fuel to "last well into May" and that there is capacity to "import more" if required (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7364842.stm). This sounds to me like straightforward management i.e. Don't Panic! But perhaps more tellingly, he is advising the public to conserve fuel by restricting travel to necessary journeys only and to take public transport wherever possible.
This is obviously appropriate advice. However, for me, there's something missing. Why, considering the seriousness of the situation, are the UK (who are particularly quiet) and Scottish executives being so seemingly accepting of the stance taken by the parties involved. Why is there no public expression of urgency from them?
harry
Yes, I'm surprised there has been no (visible) pressure from the government on the company or the union.
Gordon is pre-occupied with abolishing the 10p tax band he introduced and trying to reinstate it before he abolishes it.
Its not a crisis yet. No pumps have run dry in London.
yet...
it only takes a small number of people to start panic-buying, then others see the queues and think they'd better fill up. Before you know it you have the occasional garage running out, and then people start driving around in search of fuel.
...yeh, during the oil shortage in the early 70s I had a guy panic and back into me trying to get to a pump that just opened up. (In the end I found a friendly parking lot owner who had his own supply "out back," and he'd allow me to secretly pump 10 gallons each week. We have our ways...)