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Main Section => Welcome to our virtual Pub Meeting ... => Topic started by: oilstain on October 21, 2020, 05:37:49 PM
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In January 2021 when we will/might have left the EU without a deal, will there be a fuel shortage :agh
Should be filling old milk bottles with fuel, just in case :whistle
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Bit late for that - nearly nine years ago!
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i thought we received oil/petrol etc from the Arabs not the euros
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Let's not talk it up ...
Start stock piling now :stars
:petrol_pump
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Modern fuel will have gone off by January
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time to tip veg oil in the tank ,
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:cool
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:-X I just love those Matt cartoons!'
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Hi,
Ref "Middle of Nowhere" ... the author's biggest problem was finding a constant supply of fuel while driving North through Africa.
Me? I reckon I could live with fuel rationing ... I brimmed the Freelander the day I bought it ... it's now down to quarter full. Barbara's Hyundai seldom moves.
602
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i thought we received oil/petrol etc from the Arabs not the euros
Way off the mark I'm afraid. in 2019 Our biggest source by far was Norway with 17.5 million tons, with the US second by a long way on 11 million tons, then Algeria 4 million tons.
Overall we imported 47 million tons of Crude Oil & Liquid Gas last year.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/381963/crude-oil-and-natural-gas-import-origin-countries-to-united-kingdom-uk/
We've just finished watching the Norwegian TV series "Occupied" on Netflix, which has a scenario where Norway decides to go "Green" and announces it will tun off oil & gas production with a response from the EU of a plot with the Russians to take over the platforms and a Norwegian PM trying to stop all-out war breaking out... Lots of plot turns & twists but you had better like reading subtitles.
Its nice to know the Norwegian for "Good" sounds the same as Scots "Braw". :whistle
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Our biggest source by far was Norway
So not from the EU then?
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Its nice to know the Norwegian for "Good" sounds the same as Scots "Braw". :whistle
Much the same as some Georgie words being similar to the Nordic languages: bairn being one. The Vikings got a lot further than some people realise!
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Geordie Yerl haft ter larn ter tark like we dee
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So not from the EU then?
EFTA, essentially following most EU rules but no seat at the top table. ( See also Switzerkland, Lichtenstein and Iceland)
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I think most of our road diesel comes from continental refineries - our producing petrol and weren't converted when diesel was popular.
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The Vikings got a lot further than some people realise!
Hi
! have read that the Vikings farmed in Greenland ... when it WAS green.
I also read suggestions that the modern Native Americans are descended from Viking explorers.
I'm not sure if all the mustangs in North America are descended from horses taken across by the Spanish Conquistadors, or if they walked there from Russia. ??? How else can you explain similar animals on two continents.
Completely OT ... Henry VIII wanted large war-horses, so he ordered the destruction of all small horses. Many small horses were turned loose onto the Welsh mountains, where they "evolved" into the Welsh Mountain Ponies of today ... small, strong, and hardy. (Don't mess with Shetland stallions ... ask Barbara)
Queen Elizabeth rescinded that law.
Which is why there are a lot of horses called Bess, and very few called Harry.
Similarly, the Island of Ronaldsey (sp?) is inhabited by amphibious sheep ... they swim out to eat sea weed.
Time to get my coat?
602
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Can't stockpile any fuel, the toilet rolls are in the way ???
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I've got 120 bog rolls stashed away from the last round of panic buying ;)
Also got loads of pasta, baked beans etc.
We're good to (not) go. Think of all the fuel being saved.
:bog_roll
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Can't stockpile any fuel, the toilet rolls are in the way ???
They're absorbant..... Just wring out before use!
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I also read suggestions that the modern Native Americans are descended from Viking explorers.
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I've read a lot of nonsense too. I generally try not to waste valuable brain capacity with it ;)
Chris.
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They're absorbant..... Just wring out before use!
....and DON'T smoke! :log fire
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The Vikings got a lot further than some people realise!
Hi
! have read that the Vikings farmed in Greenland ... when it WAS green.
I also read suggestions that the modern Native Americans are descended from Viking explorers.
602
They did, and Iceland and landed on Newfoudland, built at least one settlement there, soon failed. Hard times in Iceland when the climate changed in the 1400s. As for the native population of America, no, they walked across the land-bridge from Siberia. Interestinf discussion on the similarity of artifacts on the french atlantic coast to that in N. America.... people bouncing along the ice from what is now N.America ? Modern Inuit would have no problem making a living along that Ice Age coast.. Where I live is next to what was once a glacial lake...
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^^^^ In dryer times...
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Hi,
One of Nevil Schute's novels was based on early European artefacts being found in North America (maybe Canada) by modern settlers ... who might have been descendants of the people that lost them. I read the book nearly 60 years ago ... it was possible titled "An Old Captivity", but don't hold me to that ... and yes, it IS fiction.
Strangely, there were no horses in North Americas, before the Spanish Conquistadors (sp?) arrived.