Fuel Shortage

Mrd00d · 03-31-2012, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

We're out of date here.

Yarharhar. But anyways, I saw this story in the newspaper today too. Someone was telling people to store 20 liters and the fire department came out to say it doesn't recommend storing any more than 10. Some old lady got hurt pretty bad or some such. It was only a short article, but at least it's getting coverage. The US did something equally stupid in the 70s. Stupid as ever.

Unknown Soldier · 03-31-2012, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrd00d

Yarharhar. But anyways, I saw this story in the newspaper today too. Someone was telling people to store 20 liters and the fire department came out to say it doesn't recommend storing any more than 10. Some old lady got hurt pretty bad or some such. It was only a short article, but at least it's getting coverage. The US did something equally stupid in the 70s. Stupid as ever.

Health and safety issues are almost at ridiculous levels in the UK thanks to government legislation especially over the last decade, storing litres of petrol at home seems like a serious breach of the UK's health and safety agenda.

Salami · 03-31-2012, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Health and safety issues are almost at ridiculous levels in the UK thanks to government legislation especially over the last decade, storing litres of petrol at home seems like a serious breach of the UK's health and safety agenda.

And of course the other issue is that with all the people panic buying, emergency services are going to be put in danger because they have restricted access to fuel.
This is clearly going to have awful consequences, possibly even for those who bought extra fuel - if there's a fire because of the hazard of storing it, fire engines may not be able to even get there.