Panic buying fuel again

mr.tourette · Post by **mr.tourette** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:10 pm

No diesel at my local Shell but they did have petrol.. The Esso a little further on had petrol and diesel but no super unleaded, no real queueing, drove straight up at both stations

Flyingfifer · Post by **Flyingfifer** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:51 pm

I was at costco in Edinburgh on Wednesday and it was totally fine no queues whatsoever and no shortages at all, most stations I saw have been the same

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:34 pm

Colin_E wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:03 pm Time of day seems to make a big difference in my neck of the woods. Fair sized queues in the (mid) mornings & all empty by the afternoon at my nearest Tesco seemed to be the pattern

Ditto at the Sainsbury's round the corner from me. There are a lot of shift-workers in my town; I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:37 pm

mr.tourette wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:10 pm No diesel at my local Shell but they did have petrol.

So are there more diesel vehicles on the road, or are fuel hoarders mostly diesel drivers?

mr.tourette · Post by **mr.tourette** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:14 pm

Pondrew wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:37 pm
mr.tourette wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:10 pm No diesel at my local Shell but they did have petrol.
So are there more diesel vehicles on the road, or are fuel hoarders mostly diesel drivers?

I guess diesel goes in more vehicles overall, vans, trucks and anything remotely involved in the building trade and the like and those guys tend to do a lot of mileage and therefore are probably brimming... I have stuck to my usual weekly 40 quid, don't see the need to buy more, there is probably 20 quids worth in the z4 if i get stuck

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:17 pm

What this farce has demonstrated is the next real crisis that is actually serious then we're all fooked,

https://youtu.be/xVRefKA8CZM

Every punch up for themselves

Tim.

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:44 pm

TitanTim wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:17 pm What this farce has demonstrated is the next real crisis that is actually serious then we're all fooked,

https://youtu.be/xVRefKA8CZM

Every punch up for themselves

Things like this demonstrate what a knife-edge civilised society is living on (I use the word civilised in it's broadest terms).
If you want to have a fight in a petrol garage at least wear a face mask. Oh, hang on, I forget, that's so last month

Imagine what carnage there would be if chicken nuggets' production was affected! Or even worse, Domino's delivery drivers couldn't get fuel. It doesn't bear thinking about.

Nanu · Post by **Nanu** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:59 pm

We have a wide spread of of areas of the country covered on the forum, so where are the areas with queues?

Is it as I suspect mainly down south, London area in particular or is it evenly spread all over the UK?

For starters no issues here in the Tyne & Wear area that I have seen.

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:15 pm

Nanu wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:59 pm We have a wide spread of of areas of the country covered on the forum, so where are the areas with queues?

Is it as I suspect mainly down south, London area in particular or is it evenly spread all over the UK?

For starters no issues here in the Tyne & Wear area that I have seen.

To be honest I've only gone by the local commnity groups I'm active on and reading posts and comments seems most filling stations in Stafford where I'am ran dry pretty quickly. People were posting photo's showing people at local stations filling alsorts of containers as well as their tank

I've kept well away from it all.

Just siphoned a little from my neighbours car each night and I've been fine

Tim.

Crazy Harry · Post by **Crazy Harry** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:29 pm

Article on BBC website about motorist who followed a tanker then complained that the driver didn't stop to tell them he was moving mortar!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-58767230

FFS! - Darwin award winners of the future

Ole gits rule · Post by **Ole gits rule** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:36 pm

Sainsburys in Newport has been closed but its the only one close to me - everywhere else is fine apart from the traffic

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:23 pm

Good job the fukin idiots can't panic buy gas; then we would be knackered

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:27 pm

Pondrew wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:23 pm Good job the fukin idiots can't panic buy gas; then we would be knackered

Don’t know, they could gas themselves?

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:42 pm

pvr wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:27 pm Don’t know, they could gas themselves?

We live in hope

Mr Tidy · Post by **Mr Tidy** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:55 pm

Colin_E wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:03 pm Time of day seems to make a big difference in my neck of the woods. Fair sized queues in the (mid) mornings & all empty by the afternoon at my nearest Tesco seemed to be the pattern - so I guess they're getting deliveries overnight.
So I figured sometime around 6am might be OK - queue was just 4-5 cars deep at that time yesterday and job done in 5mins or so. Result!

Given your location I was wondering if your local Tesco might be my one! (The Meadows in Camberley).

They said they had no fuel yesterday around 2pm, but their online delivery vans were filling up.

But even if they had fuel at 6am I wouldn't be buying it - I'd rather be asleep.

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