pslewis

Hmmmmm, yes they did ................ thats why all cars now have an anti-syphon device in the filler neck!!

Pete

StickyMicky

surelly everybody knew that panic buying would happen?

snooze you looze and all that

pslewis

3 1/2 days ago I started this thread to warn everyone ................. anyone now caught without petrol or in a long, long queue should have listened to Uncle Pete!!

In 2 days time the petrol stations will be full of fuel and empty of customers!!

Pete

StickyMicky

i think i started one before you

pslewis

I lead............ the rest follow

Pete

baz69birds

I managed to fill up this afternoon a couple of miles from where I live without a problem really.

But coming past the two petrol garages that are in my town they were turning people away saying they had run out.

imlach

Every petrol station I passed today looked like any other day....ie, normal. I even purchased some fuel as the car was running on fumes, and guess what, the forecourt was empty.

Must just be you southern nutters Stop panicking you wierdos You're making it worse for yourselves.

Spec'c'57

iTrader: (1)

mrs spec'c's sport needs fuel and everywhere around shoebury is queued a mile or shut as they have run out....

Fantom

Just been out in my motor and you wouldnt believe the chaos! its pathetic. Every garage is full of cars and they are overflowing out into the road and causing lots of traffic. Its an absolute joke! I bet most of them have plenty of fuel.

My tank is half full, i just hope that I can fill it up in a few days when its nearly empty.

The oil companies must love all this panic buying, just think how much money they are making, all at around the £1/litre mark.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Just think of how much extra VAT the government is making.....All especially for Tracy the 15yr old mother of three with a nice council house in Tipton

(no offence intended to anyone who has the same name )

imlach

...indeed, although bear in mind that the fuel companies are taking 82.5% of the increases....who should you be shouting at?

dpb

good fer Trace..............

ADP

Yep, qed to get petrol at 930 tonight...................I see trouble a brewing, good job my diseasal is good for 550 miles

Go fill up, NOW!

pslewis

Interesting Fact:-

At 95p/Litre the cost is broken down, thus:-

30p to the Oil Company

47p Duty

13p Tax

&5p To The Garage

I think the Oil Companies AND Garages are taking us for a little ride!!

Pete

NotoriousREV

My personal mantra rings true once again: people are stupid.

imlach

Nutters.
Don't believe the media led hype. The great British public are being naive, stupid, and foolhardy.
There are NO blockades or supply issues.

NotoriousREV

NOW is too late, you should have filled up on Sunday

King RA

I wholy agree, that is why I shop on the internet and venture out as little as possible, some may say I'm mad, but then I say they are stupid.

jods

Yep - Local morrisons had traffic q'ing for approx 1/3 mile bumper to bumper.

dpb

time to brew yer own..........

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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No diesel - no can get to work

Can't be assed, where are half the people queing going to go in the next 3 days anyway? Precisely nowhere

Plus the actual protesters are telling people not to queue as they're not targetting in the same way as a few years back so no reason for fuel not to get through to the pumps

Lemmings!!

Chrisgr31

There may be no blockades but their are supply issues! However there are only supply issues as everyone has decided to fill up.

The Crawley Down Shell garage was restricting people to 20 litres of unleaded only this evening. Lucky that I needed a tankful of Optimax as that wasn;t restricted!

NotoriousREV

My next door neighbour filled his car up on the way home from work (because it was running on fumes), he has a diesel off-roader that he green lanes in that he just happened to fill up 2 weeks ago and hasn't used it since, his motorbike has a full tank as does his son's 125 (road legal) crosser so he was happily telling me how he had about 3 weeks of fuel. I told him that was great and I looked forward to watching him go to work while I "work" from home in my underwear while watching Trisha

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

A few more figures:

Fuel price rise from last month of around: 10p

Roughly giving an extra VAT rake in of: 1.75p


Media induced panic buying: n/c

Gorden Brown's extra bonus of VAT after 560,000,000 litres of fuel are panic bought from roughly 10,000 filling stations throughout the UK (est 9870) each seeing 200 customers a day filling with an average of 40litres (60litres nominal vehicle capacity averaged to compensate for splash and dashers) over the next seven days raking in an extra £9,800,000 from the 1.75p extra in VAT

Not that much really I suppose when you compare it to this:......

Cost to public of taxation money wasted through sheer and gross negligence and imcompetence covering almost all public sectors : £ priceless

Andy S.

Just had to queue up for 1/2 hour and get some crap uuleaded as I have to drive to Hull tomorrow for my Grandads Funeral!!

And they where just about to run out!

Bloody panic buying!!!!

mart360

just come past the local tesco,s at 10.30pm...

normally one or two cars filling...


not tonight,,, allpumps in action, and small ques off the forecourt!!

M

Echo

Got back with wifey's Sport on the yellow light. Nipped to Shell and only Optimax available, no unleaded or diesel.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

I have 3/4 of a tank of petrol, about 250 miles worth, when it runs out it will all be over and I will buy some more, if by some strange chance it isnt then I will cycle the 13 miles to work, I appreciate that isnt practical for all but there are alternatives.

Franx

And what if there are anyway? Doesn't bother me tbh, as I should really get on the bike to work anyway. People just get these ideas into their heads that it's about to run out, and buy like it'll never be on sale again.
Why the **** doesn't everyone just buy the same amount as usual, when their car needs filling, and grow up a little. That way, even if there is a blockade, it'll probably last longer, and it'll be less selfish also, as well as being less bloody stupid, by quite some margin.

Strikes me as ironic though - on the bike just before, cycling past the queue at Tesco, about half a mile down the road, and they all sit there with the engine running burning fuel, even though they don't know there's any fuel left in the thing when they get there...

Anyway, I've still got 2 gallons in the garage which was intended for the lawnmower, so I'm not out yet

StickyMicky

ive just seen one at 11.30 in newcastle lol