Thread: Bangkok: Sale of Gasoline Banned in Bangkok and Surroundings

This is from ThaiVisa. There's no indication of where they got the information. I can't find any other reference to it on the net. It might be breaking news from their chums at the Nation?

BANGKOK: -- Fuel deliveries and community television and radio stations are the latest target of the Thai government in the lead-up to the mass rally by red-shirt protesters this weekend.

Early this morning government lawyers applied to the Thailand Supreme Court for an order closing all radio and television stations affiliated with the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).

At the same time the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) announced on Thai Business Channel that it was suspending all fuel sales and deliveries to Bangkok and surrounding provinces commencing tomorrow.

A spokesman for the Peoples Television Channel said equipment was already being removed from the stations studio at Lardprao to an off-site location in preparation for this weekends rally and it was expected government officials and police will arrive at the studio with an order to cease broadcasting at around 1pm.

“We’ve informed red-shirt supporters of the plans of the government and they will be gathering here prior to 1pm in an attempt to stop the order being served and the removal of equipment”, he said.

Sean Boonpracong, international media spokesman for the UDD, said if the government attempted to close-down the community broadcasters the UDD had other plans in place that would allow its coverage of the rally to continue.

Meanwhile red-shirt supporters in provinces neighboring Bangkok have confirmed that fuel deliveries will be suspended as of this afternoon.

A red-shirt organizer in Ayutthaya confirmed by telephone that they have been advised there will be no fuel available for purchase starting tomorrow and people planning to attend the rally in Bangkok were now stockpiling fuel.

Earlier today an emergency meeting of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) decided against shutting down all community radio and television stations and instead delegated the job of monitoring and closing the country-wide network of stations to the police.

However, Minister to the Prime Minister's Office, Sathit Wongnongtheoy, said rumors that the government is about to close down the red shirt affiliated PTV network are false and just a tactic aimed at inciting more people to join the weekend rally.

Petrol Sales And Deliveries In Bangkok Suspended - Thailand Forum

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I can't find any other reference to it on the net.

Could well be true

https://teakdoor.com/1351367-post15.html

large dose of salt needed , google news search for Petroleum Authority of Thailand yeilds nothing

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I can't find any other reference to it on the net.

Could well be true

https://teakdoor.com/1351367-post15.html

your link goes nowhere

^^V... more propaganda from Thai Visa is more like it...

Don't know if everyone is aware of this but I just saw on the Thai Business Channel that PTT are closing their petrol stations in and around Bangkok tomorrow. Also they are suspending deliveries by tankers to Bangkok and the surrounding area. So if you are in Bangkok and need petrol I would go and fill up today.

Ptt Are Closing All Their Petrol Stations In Bangkok Friday 12th - Thailand Forum

Originally Posted by Mid

your link goes nowhere

worked for me...

Originally Posted by Thetyim

There was a Red Shirt rally in Phrae last night.
Fuel was hard to find. I can't say all, but certainly some stations were closed.
When I went through after midnight the stations were open again.

I don't know who ordered the closures but it could be a government tactic so fuel may be scarce on the roads into Bangkok .

Originally Posted by klongmaster

worked for me...

thanxs for that , works as a single post view here now , apologies Thetyim

Hopefully the protesters have plenty of petrol.
"oh yes plenty sir" all stored in these bottles easy to recoginize has cloth stuffed in top of bottle so it does not spill

lets see

road blocks
river blocks
bridge blocks
train blocks
no petrol to be obtained
no local radio stations (except approved listening ones.) govenment ones ok
6000 guns missing

no violence well see what happens when some solider decides not to let the protesters pass

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I can't find any other reference to it on the net

Poking around looking for a link. No luck. Ran across this though. Interesting.

People Channel TV ???????????? ???????????????? People satellite tv on thaicom5&nss6 - Redshirttv.com

Fuel?
Hope they don't stop alcohol sales

Originally Posted by Mid

your link goes nowhere

.... as do pickup trucks and buses with no fuel....

indeed and highly unlikely to be the reality given that there is no further news on this topic at this time

Originally Posted by Mid

indeed and highly unlikely to be the reality given that there is no further news on this topic at this time

I'll be filling up tonight just in case though...we have a cruise ship in over the weekend. Oh happy days...

speaking of ships .................

The red shirts from Ayutthaya will travel by more than 100 boats prying the Chao Phya to join the mass rally on Sunday, Pheu Thai MP Surachet Chaikosol said on Thursday.

Boats mobilised to transport red shirts from Ayutthaya

^
- Leaving on Sunday in longtail boats - could miss the rally.
- Landing at Ta Pra Chan pier near Siriraj Hospital - Now that could be a BIG problem.

The reds are coming, the reds are coming !!!

Originally Posted by BKKBoet

- Leaving on Sunday in longtail boats - could miss the rally.

you really SHOULD learn to read , nowhere does it say leaving on Sunday , rather it says leaving to join the rally on Sunday , thus leaving at a necessary time in advance to enable them to join the rally on Sunday .

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Fuel?
Hope they don't stop alcohol sales

,,,Ahhhhhhh.

Originally Posted by Mid

Originally Posted by BKKBoet

- Leaving on Sunday in longtail boats - could miss the rally.

you really SHOULD learn to read , nowhere does it say leaving on Sunday , rather it says leaving to join the rally on Sunday , thus leaving at a necessary time in advance to enable them to join the rally on Sunday .

"An advance team will start arriving in Bangkok on Saturday but the main procession of long-tail boats and barges will begin the following day, he said."

I think you have the reading problem.

fair enough , my bad , apologies

No problem. I did see a report in Bangkok Post this morning that said they are now leaving on Saturday afternoon, so maybe they will make it afterall.