‘Full Impact’ Of Fuel Crisis To Hit Britain In Late April | Former BP Executive
“The real crisis for Britain and for Europe will come at the end of April and in early May, when the real shortage will translate into both a physical shortage and a sharp rise in price.”
Former BP executive and adviser to Gordon Brown Professor Nick Butler warns the worst of the fuel crisis is yet to come, and suggests the government should recommend working from home as a part of the solution.
Nick Butler was speaking to Kate McCann and Stig Abell on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live everyday 6-10am.
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40 Comments
It’s inevitable prices rise straight award take months/years to fall nothing new
Where is our natural gas from the north sea, not as much as 30years ago but still there and can fuel our homes
Goverment need to cap tax and vat on fuel to minimise oil cost rises at the pump
It's just one big con. UK oil and gas is needed but idiots say no. Wake up.
Lammy and vance having a conversation……..that must have been interesting……..do you think they discussed red leciester
The comments 😂😂😂😂😂
Them little videos of people sneaking gas and diesel under the coat like dell boy come to my mind.
WEF – You'll own nothing and be happy.
Good luck with your smart meters .
Closed bases to allies, open borders to enemies. You are on your own.
he got a check who rip off scotish oil nationise north sea oil but did not to much money lost to aplease greedy shareholders tharcther cause all this privetisation defacto
We live in very rural mid-west Wales & rely on our pickup [our only vehicle] for everything except online purchases. Diesel prices are currently fluctuating between £1.90 & £2 per litre. We have filled the fuel tank progressively during the last couple of weeks, completely changed our routines & reduced our fuel consumption to approximately 3/4 gallon per week. With further streamlining of our routines – buying poultry feed on a different day, for example, we could reduce our consumption still further to approximately 1/2 gallon per week. We top up when the 3/4 point is reached,
Our routine changes so far mean that if there is absolutely no diesel available anywhere locally, we should be able to manage for at least 2 months.
We are also 90% self sufficient all year round, regarding fruit & vegetables & 100% for poultry & waterfowl eggs. We plan to increase the size of our flocks this year to greatly reduce our reliance on commercially produced meat. Lamb, beef, pork & wild boar we purchase from local producers.
Don’t panic, net zero is the answer to all this country’s problems
Taking the piss, most of it is effing TAX……. Absolute greedy wan⚓ quarterly earnings always through the roof, GTFO
People are on those ships, too ❤
Revolution is coming!
Why not source our oil from somewhere else? for example Canada or South America or even dare I say from the North Sea. I'm no expert on procurement or details within partnerships, I'm just interested exploring other options.
Well..this is what happens when clowns go unchecked and unchallenged?!
50% of the fuel cost is tax, why dosnt Rachel sharpen her pencil and work out some figures and cut some of the tax, £2.03 a litre in holt norfolk soon be to dear to go to work.
The UK doesn’t rely on oil from the M/E, most of our oil comes from the US and Norway, and there are 2.9billion barrels in UK reserves, 305 weeks or 6 years worth. However, we do rely on diesel from the M/E, only 7%~10%, but 40% from Europe who are struggling. And it’s the fertiliser/ingredients that are more of a concern for UK Farmers potentially affecting food production.
It’s all a bit weird. UK must get less than 10% of oil through Hormuz. Vast majority comes from USA and Norway. Doesn’t make sense. Also, Europe will further slide from relevance in the world as the rest of the world will probably get by with Russian oil. And, being pro war with Iran is actively trying to reduce China’s ability to get oil. As UK has outsourced a lot of its manufacturing to China, it will be a shot in the foot. Especially buying Chinese electric cars to avoid fuel shortages.
Petrol here is coming down
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What a crock we get naff all from gulf
Panic stations
The failure to have a sensible energy policy is absurd, a complete abdication of goverment responsibility, a total shambles.
It IS about personalities – Milliband is a cretin!
Work from home right so how do I work on site?
Oh really?
Grow hemp, no fertilizer needed….
Collect human urine for fertilizer and pay us for it instead of taking the pxss! help the public to create community gardens …Silly me that's not in the depop file, no pot to pxss in…
Iran is letting countries supporting them. You can see uk is supporting US/ 1ZRA3L
A biblical famine is on the way.
This gent talks a lot of sense. Good interview.
Prepping is all well and good. We can all stockpile for a couple of weeks…but how long is this going to go on for ?
Starmer and Reeves way are out of their depth expect chaos 😮
Money games two springs to mind
This guy saying it is not the governments fault but they now have to deal with it – yes it is the governments fault as they have simply followed the loony green agenda just as have the previous governments. What insanity made us burn our bridges with North Sea Oil and why aren’t these people being locked up as a danger to society?
There should already be some fuel rationing to save reserves, this stupid government will leave it until its too late and then there will panic buying and once that starts fuel stations won’t be able to keep up with panic demands.
Surely it should be easy to control how many litres a pump will supply.
At what point does this government called out on their energy policies that will cause the economy to crash. The perfect storm is heading our way at extreme speed.
Work from home and reduce to a four day week.
diesel still £1.95.9 where i live local bp
If governments since 2008 had honoured their commitments to climate mitigation we could have been far less impacted by this crisis. Renewables have been the solution for decades. Neoliberal ideology and corporate capture of government are the reasons for this mess.