Squeeze goes on drivers
Such are the wonders of the deep, we will never really know them all. Perhaps the eternal search for free fuel would be ended if we new more about what lies beneath. I mean, that Mario Andretti trench is well deep.
Now it turns out squid, in fact all cephalopods, are really sneaky-beak special agents. It’s not just their eyes that are a bit Joe 90.
Along with cuttlefish and octopuses, not octopie, octopie is an eight-sided pastry confection, squid can send secret messages to each other by writing in invisible ink.
These messages can only be seen by other squid.
The petroleum industry operates on a similar basis.
Say some oil refinery workers in Scotland vote to go on strike. Amazingly petrol retailers communicate unseen with each other that a 5p a litre rise in price is needed if life as we know it is to go on.
This, of course, had nothing to do with anticipating the very British phenomenon of creating a shortage by panic buying.
Retailers blamed a rise in oil prices to £120 a barrel on Wednesday. Even though this more expensive oil is weeks away from hitting the pumps. The stuff you came to work on cost £115 a barrel. Which sounds like profiteering to me.
That's another thing about the octopus and the petroleum industry. They both need eight arms to stuff themselves with.
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