lancpudn:
Bugger!!! Is this the lull before the storm? Although Brent crude has fallen in price more price hikes are ahead the experts are telling us, As half of our diesel is imported & a third from Russia the price of fuel is set to rise with rationing being banded about in Germany & the UK considering it.
"He added that diesel was particularly exposed to price rises, with half of the country’s diesel imported and a third of these imports coming from Russia.
Dr Amrita Sen, director of research at Energy Aspects, said that petrol prices could rise to around £2.40 a litre and that diesel prices of £2.50 to £3 were “definitely in the realms of possibility”.
She also warned that the UK could follow Germany in introducing rationing measures which have already seen BP and Shell reduce diesel wholesales to industry."
fleetnews.co.uk/news/fleet- … rude-falls
So diesel is subject to ‘outside’ market forces but petrol just like domestic gas isn’t. So why the big increase in petrol and gas prices.
It’s clearly got nothing to do with ‘outside forces’.
The truth is it’s all about meeting joke Paris Accord targets using extortionate punitive pricing and forcing EV sales by equalising diesel and petrol costs with electric at 30p per kWh +.
While flogging off our oil and gas resources to the highest bidder.
While 10% carbon tax and 20% VAT on
the total obviously forms £1 per litre of that diesel price and 80p per litre of the petrol price.
At these prices going off grid with a diesel generator running on red diesel to also charge an EV looks like a viable plan in the short term.
Until the real agenda kicks in which the government has openly stated is Agenda 30 removal of the premise of freedom of travel and end of private transport use.
Better late than never.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202 … roduction/
So the North Sea obviously isn’t running on empty after all the lies.
£111 to fill my van with v power.
It’s only 4p per litre dearer than standard diesel.
Carryfast:
Better late than never.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202 … roduction/
So the North Sea obviously isn’t running on empty after all the lies.
Just been reading that the environment lawyers ‘Clientearth’ are already on the case & taking legal action against Shell. 
“We’re arguing that the Board’s failure to properly manage climate risk to Shell means that it is breaching its legal duties. The Board has failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement goal to keep global temperature rises to below 1.5°C by 2050. We believe the Board is breaching its duties under sections 172 and 174 of the UK Companies Act, which legally requires it to act in a way that promotes the company’s success, and to exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence.”
"This will be the first time ever that a company’s board has been challenged on its failure to properly prepare for the net zero transition.
We are pursuing shareholder litigation to compel Shell’s Board to act in the best long-term interests of the company by strengthening Shell’s climate plans. Its current strategy and insufficient targets put the enduring commercial success of the company and employees’ jobs at risk, and is no good for people or the planet. We want to make sure the Board’s ‘wait and see’ approach to the energy transition does not come at the expense of long-term viability for the company’s stakeholders, including shareholders and employees. Putting in place sufficient targets to reduce its emissions over the next 3, 5 and 10 years in order to meet net zero will secure the company’s long-term value, while protecting investors’ capital and the climate."
clientearth.org/latest/late … mate-risk/
lancpudn:
Carryfast:
Better late than never.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202 … roduction/
So the North Sea obviously isn’t running on empty after all the lies.
Just been reading that the environment lawyers ‘Clientearth’ are already on the case & taking legal action against Shell.
“We’re arguing that the Board’s failure to properly manage climate risk to Shell means that it is breaching its legal duties. The Board has failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement goal to keep global temperature rises to below 1.5°C by 2050. We believe the Board is breaching its duties under sections 172 and 174 of the UK Companies Act, which legally requires it to act in a way that promotes the company’s success, and to exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence.”
"This will be the first time ever that a company’s board has been challenged on its failure to properly prepare for the net zero transition.
We are pursuing shareholder litigation to compel Shell’s Board to act in the best long-term interests of the company by strengthening Shell’s climate plans. Its current strategy and insufficient targets put the enduring commercial success of the company and employees’ jobs at risk, and is no good for people or the planet. We want to make sure the Board’s ‘wait and see’ approach to the energy transition does not come at the expense of long-term viability for the company’s stakeholders, including shareholders and employees. Putting in place sufficient targets to reduce its emissions over the next 3, 5 and 10 years in order to meet net zero will secure the company’s long-term value, while protecting investors’ capital and the climate."
clientearth.org/latest/late … mate-risk/
The government has already invoked/played the national ( energy ) security card.Nothing can possibly trump that.Shell will just put that as their defence and hopefully the green Commy loons’ case will collapse catastrophically and very expensively.
The decision to bring the North Sea back online has already been made.
Paris Accord is toast and history.
All we need now is to get coal resources back online.
Although all the CO2 headbangers can still go all electric at 30p per kWh + their fair share of road fuel taxes if they want.
In the knowledge what we don’t use would only be exported to be burnt elsewhere.
lancpudn:
Carryfast:
Better late than never.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202 … roduction/
So the North Sea obviously isn’t running on empty after all the lies.
Just been reading that the environment lawyers ‘Clientearth’ are already on the case & taking legal action against Shell.
“We’re arguing that the Board’s failure to properly manage climate risk to Shell means that it is breaching its legal duties. The Board has failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement goal to keep global temperature rises to below 1.5°C by 2050. We believe the Board is breaching its duties under sections 172 and 174 of the UK Companies Act, which legally requires it to act in a way that promotes the company’s success, and to exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence.”
"This will be the first time ever that a company’s board has been challenged on its failure to properly prepare for the net zero transition.
We are pursuing shareholder litigation to compel Shell’s Board to act in the best long-term interests of the company by strengthening Shell’s climate plans. Its current strategy and insufficient targets put the enduring commercial success of the company and employees’ jobs at risk, and is no good for people or the planet. We want to make sure the Board’s ‘wait and see’ approach to the energy transition does not come at the expense of long-term viability for the company’s stakeholders, including shareholders and employees. Putting in place sufficient targets to reduce its emissions over the next 3, 5 and 10 years in order to meet net zero will secure the company’s long-term value, while protecting investors’ capital and the climate."
clientearth.org/latest/late … mate-risk/
As I’ve said many times before, big U turns are coming as the stark realisation of the carbon neutral nonsense is already having a dramatic effect on our economy and standard of living….
bigstraight6:
As I’ve said many times before, big U turns are coming as the stark realisation of the carbon neutral nonsense is already having a dramatic effect on our economy and standard of living….
And that’s even before it’s really kicked in totally removing the option of fossil fuel use.
Many of the most vociferous being champagne Socialists on big salaries who can afford the costs of their utopian dreams.
Good luck with the court case.Shell’s legal costs award will be interesting.
Might get a few noughts knocked off the bill if the climate comedians withdraw their case quick enough.
cityam.com/prime-minister-bo … -industry/
Carryfast:
Good luck with the court case.Shell’s legal costs award will be interesting.
Might get a few noughts knocked off the bill if the climate comedians withdraw their case quick enough.
cityam.com/prime-minister-bo … -industry/
I’d be surprised if Shell had enough lawyers to cover the amount of lawsuits against them from Friends of the earth, Greenpeace, Clientearth & countless NGO’s from all over the world for environmental failures. They must be ankle deep in them by now.
Royal Dutch Shell lost their last case last year & are now legally bound by the courts to reduce their emissions by 45% before 2030, Even the companies that supply them have to meet those limits too Opening up new fossil fuel fields will be very spendy for them I would imagine.
All the big oil companies are under the cosh with France’s Total being the latest to be served lawsuits for emission failures. euractiv.com/section/climat … mate-case/
lancpudn:
Carryfast:
Good luck with the court case.Shell’s legal costs award will be interesting.
Might get a few noughts knocked off the bill if the climate comedians withdraw their case quick enough.
cityam.com/prime-minister-bo … -industry/
I’d be surprised if Shell had enough lawyers to cover the amount of lawsuits against them from Friends of the earth, Greenpeace, Clientearth & countless NGO’s from all over the world for environmental failures. They must be ankle deep in them by now.
Royal Dutch Shell lost their last case last year & are now legally bound by the courts to reduce their emissions by 45% before 2030, Even the companies that supply them have to meet those limits too Opening up new fossil fuel fields will be very spendy for them I would imagine.
All the big oil companies are under the cosh with France’s Total being the latest to be served lawsuits for emission failures. euractiv.com/section/climat … mate-case/
It doesn’t matter how many claimants there are when they are all relying on the same case of compromising our energy security to the advantage of hostile outside enemy interests and forces.
She’ll only needs to beat one of the green Commy loon brigades with the government’s own national interest statement card and it’s beaten them all.
It’s obvious that no one intends to leave fossil fuel resources in the ground.
Carryfast:
lancpudn:
Carryfast:
Good luck with the court case.Shell’s legal costs award will be interesting.
Might get a few noughts knocked off the bill if the climate comedians withdraw their case quick enough.
cityam.com/prime-minister-bo … -industry/
I’d be surprised if Shell had enough lawyers to cover the amount of lawsuits against them from Friends of the earth, Greenpeace, Clientearth & countless NGO’s from all over the world for environmental failures. They must be ankle deep in them by now.
Royal Dutch Shell lost their last case last year & are now legally bound by the courts to reduce their emissions by 45% before 2030, Even the companies that supply them have to meet those limits too Opening up new fossil fuel fields will be very spendy for them I would imagine.
All the big oil companies are under the cosh with France’s Total being the latest to be served lawsuits for emission failures. euractiv.com/section/climat … mate-case/
It doesn’t matter how many claimants there are when they are all relying on the same case of compromising our energy security to the advantage of hostile outside enemy interests and forces.
She’ll only needs to beat one of the green Commy loon brigades with the government’s own national interest statement card and it’s beaten them all.
It’s obvious that no one intends to leave fossil fuel resources in the ground.
Yes somethings got to give, Germany is going through the same thing with half wanting to go back to coal/nuclear & the other half saying absolutely not. The trouble is since Clientearth won their court case so every man & his dog can now sue over climate change, Investors are now running scared of losing value in their portfolios because of the huge surge in lawsuits, Between 2017-2021 saw the biggest surge of lawsuits ever against entities like oil companies with over 1800 cases from different organizations/countries around the world. insurancejournal.com/news/i … 651089.htm
lancpudn:
Yes somethings got to give, Germany is going through the same thing with half wanting to go back to coal/nuclear & the other half saying absolutely not. The trouble is since Clientearth won their court case so every man & his dog can now sue over climate change, Investors are now running scared of losing value in their portfolios because of the huge surge in lawsuits, Between 2017-2021 saw the biggest surge of lawsuits ever against entities like oil companies with over 1800 cases from different organizations/countries around the world. insurancejournal.com/news/i … 651089.htm
The German issue is that they are slowly realising the benefits of coal over the safety and cost of nuclear
Sooner or later the real Greens will have to make that simple choice.Fluffy windmills won’t cut it.
In addition to burning living trees in the form of biomass which not only means the loss of their lifespan CO2 processing ability but also their Oxygen contribution as part of that.
Even if CO2 did cook Venus which it didn’t.
It’s clear that the rest are melons red on the inside and their agenda is all about what they perceive as wealth redistribution and what’s good for their Communist handlers in Beijing.
All moot because the courts don’t make the laws.If the government says that were out of the Paris Accord and the net zero bs on national security grounds then the courts are bound by that decision.We aren’t governed by courts or what’s the point of voting.
While no true Green activist would see nuclear and biomass as a lesser evil than fossil fuel.Let alone when this anti fossil fuel utopian nightmare means the choice between eat or heat for limited income groups.
OwenMoney:
https://www.thelocal.fr/20220313/france-announces-fuel-rebate-to-help-drivers-cope-with-soaring-prices/
The French government has announced a package worth 2.0 billion euros ($2.2 billion) to help consumers struggling with soaring fuel prices, with the cost of filling up set to be cut by 15 cents at the pump.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced late Saturday that petrol and diesel prices would be reduced by 15 cents per litre from April 1st for four months.
The bill will be slashed by this amount when vehicle owners pay, with the state then reimbursing petrol station owners for the difference.
“That means every time you fill up for 60 euros, you save around nine euros,”
Updated today to 18 cents a litre refunded by the state
OwenMoney:
OwenMoney:
https://www.thelocal.fr/20220313/france-announces-fuel-rebate-to-help-drivers-cope-with-soaring-prices/
The French government has announced a package worth 2.0 billion euros ($2.2 billion) to help consumers struggling with soaring fuel prices, with the cost of filling up set to be cut by 15 cents at the pump.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced late Saturday that petrol and diesel prices would be reduced by 15 cents per litre from April 1st for four months.
The bill will be slashed by this amount when vehicle owners pay, with the state then reimbursing petrol station owners for the difference.
“That means every time you fill up for 60 euros, you save around nine euros,”
Updated today to 18 cents a litre refunded by the state
I don’t get how the government can get away with charging VAT on road fuel duty and carbon tax.No ‘value’ has been ‘added’ to the product just tax levied on it
By definition VAT shouldn’t therefore be applied to a tax.
Fuel theft from vehicles & drive offs from forecourts in my neck o the woods up 215% in March, They’re even limiting how much petrol/diesel you can draw now in case of flight. Two cars were done in my street over the weekend, Not only are they down the amount of fuel they had in the tank they’re also going to need new fuel tanks as they just puncture the tank to drain it. 
lancpudn:
Fuel theft from vehicles & drive offs from forecourts in my neck o the woods up 215% in March, They’re even limiting how much petrol/diesel you can draw now in case of flight. Two cars were done in my street over the weekend, Not only are they down the amount of fuel they had in the tank they’re also going to need new fuel tanks as they just puncture the tank to drain it.
Sounds more like an eco warrior vandalism tactic than somehow bothering with all the aggro of having to transfer the contents of a holed draining fuel tank from underneath into enough fuel cans all for around 60 quid at best in most cases.
As for garage forecourts fair enough.Put in 6 gallons then pay for it go back and put in the next 6 gallons what’s the problem.
Carryfast:
lancpudn:
Fuel theft from vehicles & drive offs from forecourts in my neck o the woods up 215% in March, They’re even limiting how much petrol/diesel you can draw now in case of flight. Two cars were done in my street over the weekend, Not only are they down the amount of fuel they had in the tank they’re also going to need new fuel tanks as they just puncture the tank to drain it.
Sounds more like an eco warrior vandalism tactic than somehow bothering with all the aggro of having to transfer the contents of a holed draining fuel tank from underneath into enough fuel cans all for around 60 quid at best in most cases.
As for garage forecourts fair enough.Put in 6 gallons then pay for it go back and put in the next 6 gallons what’s the problem.
Nah! Just too many ne’er do wells, work shy & have nots around here these days, They’;re using cat litter trays to slide under the cars when they puncture the fuel tanks. You see them on a weekly basis day or night tear arsing around the local roads on quad bikes & scrambler type bikes knowing full well PC Plod ain’t going to be coming any time soon. That’s what they’re stealing it for.
lancpudn:
Fuel theft from vehicles & drive offs from forecourts in my neck o the woods up 215% in March, They’re even limiting how much petrol/diesel you can draw now in case of flight. Two cars were done in my street over the weekend, Not only are they down the amount of fuel they had in the tank they’re also going to need new fuel tanks as they just puncture the tank to drain it.
You think that’s bad?!
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 … l-warship/
£250k stolen from a warship in Devonport using a fuel tanker
stu675:
lancpudn:
Fuel theft from vehicles & drive offs from forecourts in my neck o the woods up 215% in March, They’re even limiting how much petrol/diesel you can draw now in case of flight. Two cars were done in my street over the weekend, Not only are they down the amount of fuel they had in the tank they’re also going to need new fuel tanks as they just puncture the tank to drain it.
You think that’s bad?!
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 … l-warship/
£250k stolen from a warship in Devonport using a fuel tanker
Bleddy hell! Go big or go home eh 
Fill yer Jerry cans up! Oil prices on the rise again (18th April) with even more heavier sanctions on Russian crude starting in May. Are we going to hit 10 Quid a gallon this time around? euractiv.com/section/europe … s-deepens/