I would like to say a big thank you. Firstly for those lovely men at Grangemouth that are going to strike this weekend. If you haven't heard it is a refinery in Scotland and it means that we will have a fuel shortage for possibly the next four weeks.
I would like to say thank you too to BP who are going to shut off a main line in that will affect gas and oil coming into the country, which will begin to cause panic down south too.
And my final big thank you is to the idiots who have started panic buying fuel (filling up gerry cans, topping up their cars every five minutes) so that now we DO have a fuel shortage in Scotland, even though we were told by just about every expert that if people were sensible there would be adequate fuel for everyone.
So why the Thank Yous? Two reasons. Firstly I have a little boy who has a health problem. If he needs hospital treatment there will now be difficulty for us to get to the hospital (it's over 30 miles away) or for the Ambulances to get to us as there is a fuel shortage. And secondly we are moving in three weeks time: for my son's benefit we are relocating back to the South coast, but how are we supposed to do that when there is little enough fuel for us to travel, let alone a funiture lorry.
So thank you to all those selfish people who are thinking purely of their own benefit and not of the rest of the country. Thank you for the inconveience, the extra worry and stress that this strike will bring.
2008-04-25 @ 22:55