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This always reminds me of government protecting the citizen serf from the power of finance .
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Moviesinthemaking/comments/3o3jlc/a_production_worker_protects_actor_guido_mannari/
Of course in England they have got rid of the umbrella also with the perversely labeled universal credit .
I fear they are taking the piss out of sincere social creditors .
The Dork of Cork
Golf Charlie
I was giving the excuse not the actuality.
Uibhist a Tuath
Don't confuse the Whiddy Island crude storage terminal in Bantry Bay with Whitegate - they're about 50 miles apart. It is used mainly to hold strategic oil stocks, although it can be used to break bulk for Whitegate.
I suspect Statoil's original involvement in retail was a way to get offshore blocks allocated. The company entered the Irish market in April 1992 when it purchased the BP chain for an undisclosed sum. Fiscal terms were set in 1992 for exploration in Irish waters by oil and gas companies. Here's the announcement of their exit from retail in 2006.
It doesn't add up...
apparently a building near the Arc de Triomphe has been set on fire - some are saying it's the Tax Office - the media won't confirm that....
tomo
Dutch kid invents giant magic boom for scooping ocean plastics
..4 weeks of testing off San Francisco
..the plastic goes into the boom and then washes back out
"A £20 million project intended to rid the ocean of plastic waste using a 2,000ft-long barrier has fallen at the first hurdle"
stewgreen
"I think that at least part of the revenues raised by increasing duth on fuel will be used to invest in clean renewable energy.
Dec 1, 2018 at 12:14 PM | Uibhist a Tuath"
Invest?! Substitute the word for "squander"
golf charlie
" . and operations to remove dye from red diesel that still persist .. "
Dec 1, 2018 at 11:52 AM | It doesn't add up...
Fullers Earth? (the chemical absorbant in cat litter .... )
golf charlie
idau
:-)
Back in the early 1980s I heard the story several times in SW Ireland when I asked about the then surprising quantity of "Norwegian" petrol stations at the roadside which were a real surprise to me. I knew that biggest tankers couldn't / didn't work the terminal especially after the Betelgeuse explosion and that the refinery plant wasn't top drawer tech. I heard the refinery'd had little money spent on it which would be about par for a state owned factory.
Historical smuggling across the border and its umbilical connection to politics isn't something many politicians seem to want to address openly.
Blarney + Guinness....
anecdote - West of Ireland - I remember seeing a pre shopping till general store where the sales assistants sent chits and cash on a spring propelled suspended wire system to a clerk at a lectern at the far end of the shop who scribbled in the ledger, spiked the chit and made the change, firing the result back to the salespersons - all achieved at what to a mainlander seemed like a glacial pace.....
tomo
By way of anecdote - I was hosted in Dublin by one Peter Pigot, who was responsible for buying Whitegate's occasional crude needs on behalf of the JV. He was an international bridge player of renown - he had captained Ireland to the European Championship the year before, who socialised with Omar Sharif, the Aga Khan, and Warren Buffet et al. When we were in the office he spent much of his time writing his next column for the Irish Times and making travel arrangements for the next international match. Long lunches were spent at Portmarnock (golf was his second love), consuming copious Liffey Water. I think he hoped I would be too fuddled to see the state of play... An Irish charmer, always full of stories.
It doesn't add up...
@tomo
I knew something was amiss with that but never the details .
Thanks for the laughs.
I guess there is nothing wrong with inflated prices if it gets recycled in the village.
Problem with Ireland today is that it's the ship taking on most water given the Titanic gulf between prices and net income.