PANIC buying PANIC, PANIC!!!!!! (merged)
#63
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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
In 2 days time the petrol stations will be full of fuel and empty of customers!!
Pete
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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.
But coming past the two petrol garages that are in my town they were turning people away saying they had run out.
#67
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.
Must just be you southern nutters Stop panicking you wierdos You're making it worse for yourselves.
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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.
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.
#71
Originally Posted by ALi-B
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
...indeed, although bear in mind that the fuel companies are taking 82.5% of the increases....who should you be shouting at?
#73
>>>TROUBLE BREWING<<< Q at petrol station at 930pm??
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!
Go fill up, NOW!
#74
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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
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
#77
Originally Posted by 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!
Go fill up, NOW!
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Originally Posted by 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!
Go fill up, NOW!
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Originally Posted by 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!
Go fill up, NOW!
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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!!
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!!
#82
Originally Posted by 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.
Don't believe the media led hype. The great British public are being naive, stupid, and foolhardy.
There are NO blockades or supply issues.
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!
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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
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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
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
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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!!!!
And they where just about to run out!
Bloody panic buying!!!!
#88
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.
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Originally Posted by imlach
The great British public are being naive, stupid, and foolhardy.
There are NO blockades or supply issues.
There are NO blockades or supply issues.
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