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UK Gas supplies critically low

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1



    Isn't it lucky that we're entering Spring, oh wait...


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,235 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    With all the beer and curry I've had over the bank holiday weekend I've enough gas to last them a few decades.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,177 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    We've just had the coldest March for 50 years and the coldest Easter Sunday since records began. Global Warming me hoop. Carbon tax scam, we should be lashing more carbon into the air and heat us the f up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    im waiting on an indian to be delivered so i may be able to help them out in the morning


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    April 1st ringin' a bell?


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  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    P_1 wrote: »
    Isn't it lucky that we're entering Spring, oh wait...
    A few businesses that have an interruptible supply tariff will be expected to shut down soon, if that isn't enough then some people may get cold!


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    April 1st ringin' a bell?
    Not from the national grid, it's alarm bells they're hearing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    April 1st ringin' a bell?

    its actually genuine, the cold weather has wiped out their supplies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,177 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    April 1st ringin' a bell?

    Sure Dublin is almost out of water, it's reasonable to assume the UK is running low on it's gas reserve for this time of year compared to normal years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    A few businesses that have an interruptible supply tariff will be expected to shut down soon, if that isn't enough then some people may get cold!

    It was a joke about the current cold weather. Obviously that isn't good news. How did they manage to let the reserves run so low?


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  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    P_1 wrote: »
    It was a joke about the current cold weather. Obviously that isn't good news. How did they manage to let the reserves run so low?
    I know ;) The problem is simply the fact that with North sea gas production rates going through the floor (it's running out) & supply lines from Russia & Norway being insufficient to maintain the demand during this exceptionally long period of cold weather, the stores have simply run out!

    By now in a normal year, they'd have started the process of charging up the stores for next winter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Long term storage hits empty!

    What about all the disused coal mines and gas reserves under the ground in Britain?

    Time to reopen the mines?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    We've just had the coldest March for 50 years and the coldest Easter Sunday since records began. Global Warming me hoop. Carbon tax scam, we should be lashing more carbon into the air and heat us the f up.

    Global Warming = fail

    Climate Change = FTW


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    WIZE wrote: »
    Global Warming = fail

    Climate Change = FTW
    More like a "Little Ice Age" as predicted by the weakening solar cycle (possibly)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,177 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    More like a "Little Ice Age" as predicted by the weakening solar cycle (possibly)

    Thought that was two years ago when the sun went months without any sun spots or flares, is it not on the way back up after it's minimum.

    Besides, 13 years ago at the last minimum it was not as cold as it is now and we actually got summers then, we haven't had one in about 4 years now.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    More like a "Little Ice Age" as predicted by the weakening solar cycle (possibly)

    Nah, we will have a pretty warm summer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    OP,you are being a bit sensationalist.They have things sorted.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/31/uk-britain-gas-idUKBRE92U02620130331


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Nah, we will have a pretty warm summer.
    Will we?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Will we?

    Warm with rain turning showery before prolonged torrential spells.


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OP,you are being a bit sensationalist.They have things sorted.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/31/uk-britain-gas-idUKBRE92U02620130331

    Sorted, well sort of, in the sense of getting in supplies at the last minute.
    A bit like sending the missus out to the off license at 9:55 to get a few cans in after you've opened the last one.


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  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thought that was two years ago when the sun went months without any sun spots or flares, is it not on the way back up after it's minimum.

    Besides, 13 years ago at the last minimum it was not as cold as it is now and we actually got summers then, we haven't had one in about 4 years now.

    Solar sctivity is supposed to be at its maximum now but it's the weakest for 100 years, 100 years ago the weather was crap as well!


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sorted, well sort of, in the sense of getting in supplies at the last minute.
    A bit like sending the missus out to the off license at 9:55 to get a few cans in after you've opened the last one.

    But the offy only had 3 cans left so you have to make them last


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    And we are giving away our gas supplies for free. I swear, we would be out of recession in minutes if we sold it to the féckers!!!

    I foresee the very near re-siege of Ireland, or at least Dalkey/Dun Laoighaire in the near future!

    On a serious note though, this is the 1st of April, where the fúck is the 10-15 degrees weather we have by now. I am wearing sky gloves and 2 hoodies and a warm jacket these days to go to the shop! My MIL has ran out of oil for the 4th time this "winter" it is actually insane. The three major gas suppliers are thrilled though, I could well imagine!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    I am wearing sky gloves and 2 hoodies and a warm jacket these days to go to the shop! My MIL has ran out of oil for the 4th time this "winter" it is actually insane. The three major gas suppliers are thrilled though, I could well imagine!

    Forget about that, I'm wearing a long sleeve T shirt, a jumper, a jacket and a wooly hoody with a scarf indoors cause the bloody fuel has run out again in this bloody house I'm sharing.

    I can see my breath every time the light is on (and yes, I mean due to the cold and not my halitosis)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    We've just had the coldest March for 50 years and the coldest Easter Sunday since records began. Global Warming me hoop. Carbon tax scam, we should be lashing more carbon into the air and heat us the f up.

    Did you not watch The Day After Tomorrow? We're doomed, doomed I tells ya!

    Besides, they renamed it Climate Change as Global Warming, while an accurate description of the process, wasn't really a good indicator of the end results.

    Could be interesting next year if we get this again since they're meant to be stockpiling at this stage.
    Forget about that, I'm wearing a long sleeve T shirt, a jumper, a jacket and a wooly hoody with a scarf indoors cause the bloody fuel has run out again in this bloody house I'm sharing.

    I can see my breath every time the light is on (and yes, I mean due to the cold and not my halitosis)

    You should be renamed as Fox in Thermal Socks :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Panic ye not, in 9-10 days you will notice a rise in temps. Then it starts raining.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    mike65 wrote: »
    Panic ye not, in 9-10 days you will notice a rise in temps. Then it starts raining.

    And hark! the Flood cometh


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I can't remember the last time it rained.

    Sorry, I hope I haven't jinxed it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Forget about that, I'm wearing a long sleeve T shirt, a jumper, a jacket and a wooly hoody with a scarf indoors cause the bloody fuel has run out again in this bloody house I'm sharing.

    I can see my breath every time the light is on (and yes, I mean due to the cold and not my halitosis)

    I am wearing two pairs of socks, one over the knee. thick pants, two t-shirts and a hoodie while under a duvet on the couch. My heating is not gone, but after having it one for near 7 hours over today and having it timed to come on a few times tonight, I cannot afford to keep it on continuously.

    I live with my partner and son, both men are like polar bears, normally my partner goes around in a tshirt in winter, HE is complaining of the cold. He is wearing a wooly hat studying.

    I genuinely am worried for the elderly and for farmers whose animals are not doing too well. Livelihoods and lives are at risk. My elderly MIL ran out of oil and won't be able to get any until tomorrow.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    It was pissing down 11 days ago


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