Panic buying fuel again
- Thread starter Pondy
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Things like this demonstrate what a knife-edge civilised society is living on (I use the word civilised in it's broadest terms).TitanTim said:
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 :x
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. :roll:
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.
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.
Nanu said:
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 :lol:
Tim.
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-northamptonshire-58767230
FFS! - Darwin award winners of the future :slaphead:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58767230
FFS! - Darwin award winners of the future :slaphead:
Sainsburys in Newport has been closed but its the only one close to me - everywhere else is fine apart from the traffic
North West Surrey
Colin_E said:
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. :lol:
But even if they had fuel at 6am I wouldn't be buying it - I'd rather be asleep. :roll:
I work as a manager in retail,I am getting pretty bored of the public at large telling everyone else how stupid they are for hoarding or panic buying ,same thing.yet all the ones telling me are doing the same thing with there own excuse for doing so,I have to get to work ,i have a long journey,yadayadyad.
The whole last 2 years has been caused by social media comments be it mainsteam news or twatter and faceache.
There is no shortage of fuel as there was no shortage of pasta and toilet rolls.just stop being a selfish gready bastard
as there is more than enough for all.
Foregive me if the punctuation and spelling is off in this post but I am past checking,I think most on here will get my point.
The whole last 2 years has been caused by social media comments be it mainsteam news or twatter and faceache.
There is no shortage of fuel as there was no shortage of pasta and toilet rolls.just stop being a selfish gready bastard
as there is more than enough for all.
Foregive me if the punctuation and spelling is off in this post but I am past checking,I think most on here will get my point.
It does feel like we are really in a third world country now though. In the last month, we have been without water for almost a week, electricity is unstable and I am running generators to be able to work, no petrol or diesel and no gas for cooking as that has been panic bought as well
ronk said:Just been to Tesco for a click n collect - filled the 335 with the oily stuff. No queues whatsoever and no price hike either.
That’s me done for another two or three weeks ( as usual)
Didn’t realise you could do click and collect, do they have it ready in Jerry cans or do you get it straight from the pump, certainly saves queuing
ronk said:
I found a petrol station that sells red diesel on the pump, so that will sort my tractor and generators. The queue for the station was fairly big when I drove to the MOT Friday but at least I know it exists. Once there, I will get the Jerry cans for the lawnmowers as well. Normally I keep about 40 litres here for the garden but Sod’s law that was running low
Chippie said:ronk said:Just been to Tesco for a click n collect - filled the 335 with the oily stuff. No queues whatsoever and no price hike either.
That’s me done for another two or three weeks ( as usual)
Didn’t realise you could do click and collect, do they have it ready in Jerry cans or do you get it straight from the pump, certainly saves queuing
I wish!
My Z4 is sitting in the garage with half a tank so a couple of 20l Gerry cans would have done the trick.
I always put the car into winter hibernation with a full tank so It will be topped up soon I hope- if not then it’s not the end of the world
