Rising costs could close stations

[killmicrosoft]

Rising costs could close stations

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7350035.stm



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[cheeney1]

They are closing Fuel stations here in NZ....

[skyline]

they have been closing stations for years even though the number of cars has risen.The fuel companies and the government just reap more profit.With fewer stations and the manipulated fuel shortage the few turn the screw even more

No change nothing new

[truthseeker1980]

Yes its been going on in the UK for the past 10 years. To start with they started closing after 11pm although throughout the whole of the eighties and nineties most were 24 hours which was very useful if you got the munchies at a silly time in the morning. Then as more cars came onto the road and just after the first fuel protests in around 2000 they started to shut them down.

In London where housing is in shortage, most were sold to build blocks of flats on, but two petrol stations near me shut down in 2004 and have been left derilect since and THEY say there aint enough space for houses.

ESSO are the worst culprits, they owned the two derilect stations and also one really close to where i live, for some un-known reason the old ESSO was a big station with 12 pumps and quite a big 24 hour shop. They closed it two years ago to do renovation, when it re-opened, the station was half the size with only 6 pumps and they had knocked down the shop building which was less than 5 years old only to re-build one half the size. The forecourt looks stupid with only 6 bumps.

There must be some hidden agenda with why they are doing it.

I have thought for quite sometime since the first started to shut that its a plan to con the non-questioning public into thinking there is less fuel, as there are more cars but less stations, how many times in the last year have i had to queue for petrol, all because they have shut the other stations down, also they seem to be delivering less fuel, as loads of times over the past year I've gone to get petrol and all of the closest stations are out of stock. This never happened 10 years ago.

Or the other reason i can guess at is, if something big went down and everyone had to leave the cities, because there are not enough petrol stations thousands would not be able to re-fuel before trying to escape.

[lookfar]

Yeah this has been bothering me for a while now. It's the same here with closures. I have also noticed that some of the larger supermarket petrol stations are out of fuel occasionally (this was almost unheard of years ago). Gotta be more to this than they're leading us to believe....

I can't believe the price of fuel here, it gets worse by the day, it's £1.18/litre of diesel, fooking hell man what's going on, eek??!!:eek:

[adzboarder]

Wow this is how greedy these fat-cat petrol companies are, when they finally announce (untruthfully) that the oil has run out, their infrastructure (petrol stations, pumps, shops) will be nicely wound down with minimal costs to them, thus saving them loads more money now and until the final one closes!

Very interesting!

It would make sense if your entire industry is going to shut down by a pre-planned agenda to minimise the costs and problems when there is no more fuel to sell. I wonder exactly what the petrol companies are going to do?

I wonder more, when I see that Exxon Mobil posted profits last year in excess of $40bn, you have to wonder where all that money is going to and what secret stuff are they investing in - they must have a plan for the pre-arranged end of oil scam.

[lookfar]

I wonder more, when I see that Exxon Mobil posted profits last year in excess of $40bn, you have to wonder where all that money is going to and what secret stuff are they investing in - they must have a plan for the pre-arranged end of oil scam.

Fooking hell, that's some profit!!:eek: Certainly makes you wonder doesn't it. We need to all get into alternative fuel sources - free energy, even better!!:D

[adzboarder]

The thing with free energy is that it will never be free for us peasants, we will ALWAYS pay through the ass for it.

[lookfar]

The thing with free energy is that it will never be free for us peasants, we will ALWAYS pay through the ass for it.

Oh, well I'm living in the hope that it will be attainable to 'us peasants' soon, although if you wanna pay through the ass, who am I to judge, lol!!:p Just kidding ya:D