Fuel - Is This True?
27 December 2005, 02:43 PM
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Our local garage has had two pumps blocked off for weeks - before Buncefield - in fact they've even changed from Shell to Jet so can't just be that. Probably just the time of year and they're using Buncefield as an excuse. There were garages open on Christmas Day with no problems.
27 December 2005, 02:57 PM
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Shell next to work only has diesel (no UL or optimax). However other stations still have everything (Esso and Morrisons) and price is still 85p/litre
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27 December 2005, 03:35 PM
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Went to a Shell garage yesterday with all optimax pumps out of action 87p per litre, so had to go to BP, only put a tenner in, as its mapped for optimax, and it was 97p a litre!!!! 
27 December 2005, 04:07 PM
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I was in Aylesbury last weekend and it was a nightmare trying to get 98 octane car is mapped for it and goes into safe mode if not
Got 97 and didnt notice any change in performance driving to Marlow and then back up north Sunday lunchtime topping up on the M6 with SUL
Got 97 and didnt notice any change in performance driving to Marlow and then back up north Sunday lunchtime topping up on the M6 with SUL
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27 December 2005, 08:53 PM
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my SHELL down the road had no DEV, No Optimax, just four pumps out of eight - UL.
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28 December 2005, 09:05 AM
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£60 worth of diesel in the van yesterday, should last a good few weeks 
It was the third station I went to though, seems many are running dry.
Time to PANIC!
It was the third station I went to though, seems many are running dry.
Time to PANIC!
28 December 2005, 09:31 AM
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Maybe SN can get Geldof on the case.
[Geldof voice]
"So what there are poeple starving in Africa, there is a much more important threat hitting our shores now!!!!
These people need Optimax, and they need it now....they've remapped there cars and everything!
People are having to drively slowly out there....just give me your fukcin money"
[/Geldof voice]
[Geldof voice]
"So what there are poeple starving in Africa, there is a much more important threat hitting our shores now!!!!
These people need Optimax, and they need it now....they've remapped there cars and everything!
People are having to drively slowly out there....just give me your fukcin money"
[/Geldof voice]
28 December 2005, 09:47 AM
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Fawley Oil Refinery
I have got 2 family members that work at Esso in Fawley, they told me a week before xmas that they were close to running out of feul, lowest it has been there for years.
They dont want the info getting out too quickly as if a panic hit, everyone would go and fill up and we would be outta feul in 1/2 day.
This way they should be able to get away with bare min, until there problems subside.
They said it was going to be released when feul was getting really low, so maybe it wont last much longer. I wont be queuing for feul id rather ring up work and say i havent got any so i could stay in bed.
;o)
They dont want the info getting out too quickly as if a panic hit, everyone would go and fill up and we would be outta feul in 1/2 day.
This way they should be able to get away with bare min, until there problems subside.
They said it was going to be released when feul was getting really low, so maybe it wont last much longer. I wont be queuing for feul id rather ring up work and say i havent got any so i could stay in bed.
;o)
28 December 2005, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Southern Guy
I have got 2 family members that work at Esso in Fawley, they told me a week before xmas that they were close to running out of feul, lowest it has been there for years.
They dont want the info getting out too quickly as if a panic hit, everyone would go and fill up and we would be outta feul in 1/2 day.
;o)
They dont want the info getting out too quickly as if a panic hit, everyone would go and fill up and we would be outta feul in 1/2 day.
;o)
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28 December 2005, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by P1Fanatic
So you thought it would be a good idea to put it on one of the most popular internet forums in the UK? :-)
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