raistlin wrote:So, once again, TF is right and the firefighters, ambulance staff, fuel suppliers, Health and Safety executive and those of us who have worked with fuel products for a goodly proportion of our lives are all wrong. Nice to see that the status quo prevails
The so called advice was monumentally stupid, ill thought out and dangerous at best. I hesitate to give my views for the "at worst" scenario as this isn't the forum for overtly political wrangling
The same goes for anybody with the ear of the general population, regardless of their politics, or any other affiliation for that matter.
C'mon Basil, an unqualified "Crap" is worthy of places other than here
Oh, and just as an aside, the "advice" has been withdrawn.... on the advice of those who should have been consulted in the first place
Paul, you really should read posts properly and think about what you are typing before thrashing away at your keyboard. Did you genuinely misunderstand what I said, or deliberately choose to respond in your characteristic patronising manner?
Where did I say that firefighters, ambulance staff, fuel suppliers, Health and Safety executive and those of you who have worked with fuel products for a goodly proportion of your lives are all wrong? When it comes to storing fuel all that has been said is correct. What I did say, was that the comments made by the MP in question were taken out of context and deliberately exploited by those who seek to make political gain by doing so, and those who will take every opportunity to knock an MP because they think it is clever to do so.
As you said yourself in your opening post
‘Anybody with any sense knows that the safest way to store fuel is in full cans. A "bit" of fuel in a jerry can will, of course, produce a dangerously volatile explosive combustible vapour.’ Well, if anybody with any sense knows that, why would anyone take a jerry can to a garage and half fill it with fuel? Indeed, if someone was preparing themselves for a fuel shortage why would they only half fill the can? Like Stevemac said ‘a bit of fuel’ could just as easily be taken to mean ‘some’ and it seems to me quite plain that this is what was intended.
Yes the advice has been withdrawn – of course it has – there was no other option following the totally unnecessary and unwarranted reaction it received, making clarification necessary.
As for the ‘Crap’, that was an attempt (without success as it turns out
) to bring you back to ground level and think about what you were saying – in hindsight I should have known better. As for that comment being ‘worthy of other places’ I wonder if that means
any other forum, or just the one you cleverly got yourself banned from by having two IDs and then exposing yourself by posting under the wrong one (you see, no-one is infallible
) In any case, what’s so special about this forum?
Fuel? The garage in our village still has some..limit £30.00 and no cans allowed..all others in the vicinity that I know of are now dry....excepting my LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) supply. Most are saying they will get more fuel by tomorrow..
. If need be I may go there and try to afford an eggcup of diesel.
