[Closed] And with depressingly predictable inevitability.......

why? does he have a brain transplant for her?

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Technically, that's incorrect, as she was decanting petrol for her daughter, who'd run out.

That was lucky, or she might have got burnt too.

Not really true Darwinism though. She'd managed to breed first

*s****s* at druidh

poor cow - hopefully this'll bring down the entire government, hey ?

On a news report yesterday a fire officer was sat advising folk not to store petrol in the house. I kept thinking if anyone really needs informing of such dangers.

Clearly...

Some sensible advice from the fire brigade there.
I was thinking of filling my bath with petrol, but they say not to bring it into the home. Bugger.

Dez, I've got 2 baths in the garden, brim full of petrol. I'm alright for weeks

Barbie this weekend if anyone fancies it ?

obviously a stupid thing to do but the entire crisis has been created and exacerbated by the government for their own personal gain; Cameron, warsi, road and transport ministers, maude - even direct advice to store petrol in the home

torries in bringing the country to its knees Shocker !

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a chap a few years ago to clean his dirty overalls poured petrol into his washing machine soap dispenser, and switched on, a huge fire ensued.

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Stoner - on this week's performance I don't think swapping for Francis Maude's brain would be of any benefit.

Scraping together some sort of semi-excuse for the poor woman, I don't think everyone realises that petrol doesn't burn nice and politely like paraffin. Nor should they normally be worried about that, because normally cynical politicians aren't telling them to keep petrol at home.

obviously a stupid thing to do but the entire crisis has been created and exacerbated by the government for their own personal gain; Cameron, warsi, road and transport ministers, maude - even direct advice to store petrol in the home

Own personal gain?

No they've quite clearly made a right hash of it but the intention was to build resiliance into the coutrys fuel supply by ensuring people's tanks were full.

What they've done is overdone it ...and like I said made a right hash of it.

even direct advice to store petrol in the home

Got a direct quote on that?

[i]I was thinking of filling my bath with petrol [/i]

I would but I've already filled mine with stamps and pasties.

Frodo - while everyone's talking about pies and petrol, they've privatised the NHS. You could argue they've played a blinder

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@aracer news.sky.com/home/business/article/16197699

it was in an interview on sky

not to mention that there is no fuel strike and one won't be called till after Easter
the entire crisis has been created by either an incredibly incompetent or dangerously selfish government intent on using this to harm the unions and divert attention from their own corruption

a dangerously selfish government intent on using this to harm the unions and divert attention from their own corruption

Nail on head there kimbers. The Tories don't give a flying **** about creating chaos for the rest of us. Just as long as it doesn't interfere with them and their friends making yet more money

This government is screwed up, it knows the public can't be trusted to look after themselves so they bang more tax on pasties booze and fags but then say "panic buy and keep loads volatile fuel in your home".

WGAF? My car's diesel.

Dez, I've got 2 baths in the garden, brim full of petrol. I'm alight for weeks

FTFY

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It happens even more regularly in Africa:

[url= http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061226-oil-explosion.html ]Sabotaged pipeline explosion kills hundreds [/url]

@aracer news.sky.com/home/business/article/16197699

it was in an interview on sky

I was kind of after somebody suggesting storing petrol in your home, as you suggested somebody had said. Still waiting...

Woman seriously burned decanting petrol

That's awful. How much fuel was wasted?

I was kind of after somebody suggesting storing petrol in your home

You have a point - but still no "direct advice to store petrol in the home"

what if your garage is part of the house?

you can split hairs all you like but the government brought this mess about and idiotic advice from francis maude only made people even more panicky, advice that was criticised the fire service immediately

The thread complaining about the fuel crisis is over [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/petrol-grabbing-idiots ]here[/url], kimbers. Would it also be splitting hairs to point out that most people don't have a cooker in their garage? Blaming Francis Maude for stupid people setting themselves on fire is like blaming the car for running somebody over.

On a news report yesterday a fire officer was sat advising folk not to store petrol in the house. I kept thinking if anyone really needs informing of such dangers.

Have to agree with this.

Given the amount of publicity that there isn't a petrol shortage (significantly more publicity than the original 'panic buy' rubbish) it does make you question how smart the 'public' really is.

Great photo too!

Blaming Francis Maude for stupid people setting themselves on fire is like blaming the car for running somebody over

yu are correct but what we dont know s whether any of this would have happened without the govt's actions and advice.

yes she was daft but so was the advice
Many peoples garage is physically attached to the house with bedrooms above ...does that count as your home ?

i am sure Maude has only ever seen detached garages hence whey he appears so detached from reality

You could probably argue Mr Maud has done more for the fire safety / "don't store petrol at home" campaign than any other minister at any other time. Anyone who was susceptible to the government / media* hyped panic buying presumably would have been equally aware of the AA, FBU and others advising against using Jerry Cans, etc.

* Which stimulated panic buying more - David Cameron suggesting its probably a good idea to fill your car up OR the media pictures of queues outside garages?

Poly, the media don't just make up stories you know. Well, not on that scale anyway. There would be nothing to report on if the government had't created this situation. It's not like it was any suprise whatsoever that panic buying happened was it?

I'm sorry, did anyone ever think the public were 'smart'?

They watch 'take me out' and buy the daily mail for christs sake!

It must be seriously depressing to think that the majority of people are stupid. I can't imagine how someone would cope with that feeling.

💡 I guess that the overwhelming sense of superiority must give them the uplift needed to carry on.

This "crisis" would have made at least a [i]little[/i] bit of sense if there was a petrol tanker strike on, I suppose.

It's easy to say the woman in question was spectacularly stupid, but really I think we are talking about a pretty average level of incompetence. Petrol is such an everyday thing that joe average has no real cause to concern themselves with how dangerous it is - which is sort of why the regulations exist - it s simply not obvious to many people what the dangers are
I can't help thinking that the logic applied which lead up to this incident telling its own tale as to how detached normal people really are from "the go go juice that goes in the car" ie the daughter has run out of petrol so mum offers "some" of the can she has - what are we talking? A pint?? What sort of use is that??? Suggests to me that they've not really though about what a tank of fuel looks like.

**cynic alert on**

Perhaps i'm naturally cynical but;

1) 70% if not more of the price of fuel is duty or tax.
2) It is also the end of the financial year.
3) There are circa 32 Million cars on the UK streets.

If 75% of the vehicles on the road were to top up their tanks this week as against next week, that could lead to an extra £630* million extra tax revenue this week and as such this financial year.

What better way to help ensure the inevitable news headline in a couple of weeks about inflation / debt to GDP ratio is as favorable as possible?

*Calculation based on 75% of vehicles topping up an average of 1/2 tank and at £75 a tank - back of fag packet rough calculation.

cynic alert off

Though I approve of your cynicism, I doubt that this week's sales figures will show up in the HMRC numbers that fast.

Terrible for the woman and her family and from the story it's unclear whether the recent mad ramblings of our government ministers prompted her to store the petrol or not.
I think you'd be surprised by the number of people who are/were unaware it's the invisible vapour that ignites rather than the just liquid fuel itself.