It wasn't me

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7646408.stm

 

What's to stop a South African company like Sasol turning round and
telling the EU to **** off with their fine and just carrying on as
before? Does the EU have any judicial powers to collect these fines
from anyone?

 

The fines are enforceable within the EU against EU companies .

In Sasols case its more to do with its products or goods made from its
products being excluded from the EU marketplace

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Heh.

 

The ret of the world is a much bigger place than the EU and petroleum
products and by-products are getting increasingly more expensive. I'd
lay a tenner that the EU need the oil companies more than the oil
companies need the EU.

 

I think you underestimate the power of the EU. We're nearly 3/4 of a
billion people with a combined GDP higher than that of the US. I think
they'll sit up and listen.

 

Paraffin heating oil is between 54p and 64p a litre in the UK at the
moment.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

Which sounds about right, relatively.
Are you a regular user and can you recall what it was a couple of years
ago? Actually, it would have been four years ago I was surprised at the
price. It might have been a purely local price hike, but the garage
owner did tell me at the time it was the same all over.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Well, no oil means no heating or hot water.

It's not gone up that much. IIRC, it's about 10p/litre more now than
three/four years ago.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

Ah, see below.

Cross-purposes; I meant pump (forecourt) paraffin. I assumed you were in
the habit of buying some of that specifically, for whatever purposes.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Ah, my mistake.

Is there a difference between the two?

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

It's essentially the same stuff, but the forecourt gear is often
de-odourised (think Pink, etc) for use in indoor and greenhouse heaters
and lamps. I'm surprised at how many parry heaters are still around, and
I expect there will be a few house fires this winter as people drag some
old shitey and unsafe ones out of the shed.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Considering the price of heating oil is less than 50% of petrol, I can't
see why forecourt paraffin would be the same price.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

It used to be dirt cheap, probably nearly as cheap as heating oil at the
time, which is why I was rather taken aback at the pump price last time
I looked. I think it was/is a much smaller customer base and an extra
cost in production, but mostly greed on somebody's part.

--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House