Department of Energy Confirms LPG Shortage Has Achieved British Levels of Operational Patience-Testing
Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat
QUEZON CITY — The cooking-gas queue at the Caltex station on Commonwealth Avenue has, as of Tuesday morning, officially exceeded the publicly observable queue at the Bank of England Threadneedle Street comments window, marking what local commentators are calling the moment Manila finally caught up with London on bureaucratic queue length.
The New Standard
The Quezon City queue, generated by the ongoing Strait of Hormuz disruption, currently stretches approximately 2.4 kilometers and is moving at the operational pace of approximately one household per 47 minutes. The Department of Energy has confirmed that this is, on every available comparison, longer than any comparable queue at a UK monetary-policy public hearing, although several British observers have noted that the UK queue is technically shorter only because the Bank of England no longer accepts public comments on its decisions.
The Cumulative Effect
Maria Reyes, 47, a Caltex queue veteran of approximately five hours by the time she was interviewed, told the Manila Standard that she had been reading the British coverage of the recent rate rise on her phone while waiting and had concluded that both Filipinos and British people are, on every available indicator, paying for someone else decision in 47-minute increments.
The Department of Energy, asked whether the gas situation would resolve before the next typhoon season, indicated that the underlying food-and-energy pressure was substantively comparable to the British situation and would, on the available evidence, persist.
Pairs well with: The Daily Mash
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/bank-of-england-raises-rates-again-to-punish-anyone-who-enjoyed-a-sandwich/