Emergency Fuel Tankers Set Sail From Europe (To UK)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-27-2008 | Andrew Alderson, Jasper Copping and Richard Gray

[LikeLight]

Who is John Galt?

[utherdoul]

why would a country allow unions and strikers to cripple its economy?

[headstamp 2]

Ah yes, the wonders of Socialism. Spreading the misery equally for the benefit of all.

[MediaMole]

That’s what you get when you have a government run by a “Labor” party. Maggie Thatcher would have dealt with these strikers.

[JRandomFreeper]

Who is John Galt?

Shrugs.....

[LikeLight]

They’d better hope Ragnar Danneskjold doesn’t get to the tankers first.

[Drango]

If only Kerry or Gore were president instead of Bush, this wouldn’t be happening....

[JRandomFreeper]

I've missed out on the television thing for a few years. I don't know any status of any pirates anywhere in the world. Except in DC.

/johnny/

[OCC]

The shipments from Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Gothenburg will be unloaded on the river Forth, Scotland's busiest shipping lane.

That sounds harmful to the river and not helpful at all to fuel shortage situation.

[LikeLight]

That sounds harmful to the river and not helpful at all to fuel shortage situation.

"First, let's kill all the ducks..."

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[blam]

"Who is John Galt?

[count-your-change]

“We need to start weaning ourselves off our dependency on oil.”
No problem, just send the fuel tanker whence it came.

[JRandomFreeper]

By the time the lawyers get ahold of your misquote of the Bard, you may have a different target. ;)

/johnny/

[JRandomFreeper]

Actually, in the original form.... $, the symbol for the United States Dollar, was a letter U overlaid with a letter S. Thus forming the USD original symbol. Somewhere, the bottom got cut out of it, and it was gutted.

/johnny/

[princess leah]

The war on terror is about Muslim countries holding us hostage while they control the oil! Time to drill here in America and stop the dependency on the middle east muslim run countries!@

[JRandomFreeper]

One can only be held hostage as long as one wants to be.

And I agree that we should be drilling. And since I live in Texas, and have a bunch of new drilling around the homestead, and am the grandson of a man that died in an oil-rig fire... I expect I really understand, flippant as I am.

I do refuse to let the bastards take away my twisted sense of humor. Islamofacists or demoncrats, or just upset relatives.

I didn't live this long to be polite. Hell, I've got short calls to pay off for living this long....

All the best.

/johnny/

[brushcop]

Ain’t gonna happen. The greenies have been in charge of our energy “policies” for decades. Nope, get used to it. Hmmmmm, I don’t see any “leaders” out there, ‘ppears they sold us down the river—again...

No, we are NOT ALLOWED to develop our resources, NO, NO, NO!! We must die in the midst of plenty.

Do you see any leader out there that will address this challenge?

[gigster]

Can someone help me out here?
I calculate that’s under 20 million gallons they want to bring in to run the country for ten days?
Sounds a little meager to run a industrialised country
for even a day.