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Petrol chaos - what's going on?

Surely this ripple of "panic buying" will have to pass in a day or so?

Once everyone has filled their cars up, they aren't going to be using any more petrol day by day, so UNLESS there actually is a blockade of refineries, which I doubt, then soon petrol-buying will fall to normal levels?

Or am I missing something?

Giles..
 
It's the lizards, it's a conspiracy cooked up by the government. Those petrol campaigners are really undercover agents, making us buy petrol at inflated prices. They will all be buying BP shares now, the toffs and politicians.It's all a big con. They are laughing al the way to the world bank.
 
Sainsburys security guards were preventing people from filling jerry cans as well as their vehicles tonight. :rolleyes: Where's me ration book? :D
 
moose said:
Sainsburys security guards were preventing people from filling jerry cans as well as their vehicles tonight. :rolleyes: Where's me ration book? :D
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It is in fact a serious offence to store more than 5 gallons of petrol at a private residence unless it is in the petrol tank of a vehicle.
 
moose said:
Sainsburys security guards were preventing people from filling jerry cans as well as their vehicles tonight. :rolleyes: Where's me ration book? :D
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Hmm.. I have to ride to Holyhead in a few days to head to Ireland and I don't fancy getting stuck half-way with an empty tank, not knowing the area that well around Brum. Strapping a small jerry can on the pillion seat sounds like a good idea to get a bit of extra range, cheers moose :)

Bollocks to that if they won't let you fill up seperate containers though, I can only get about £12 worth in my tank at the best of times :(
 
Drove through Croydon and got caught in two traffic jams caused by people queuing onto main road for fuel. It's like a fuckwit convention has come to town.
 
its absolute madness round ere atm

we have 2 petrol stations not far from chateux pingu. I went in to get a pint of milk (cos it sells it and we needed some before anyone asks).

queues right down the road. Mike, for that is the bloke in the petrol stations name, said its been like this since about 2pm...

the expression "self fulfilling prophecy" springs to mind
 
I had to go out tonight to get petrol as my tank was empty and i need to get the children to school tomorrow - it was chaos!

They were queuing round the island at Sainburys so I went to another garage and they had run out of unleaded and diesel (so what were the cars on the forecourt filling up with then? :confused: ), anyway, back to Sainsburys, joined the queue ans 1/2 hour later got petrol - madness :rolleyes:

It'll probably be quiet tomorrow! :D
 
Well at least the teachers at my son's school will be ok, I told them to start filling up their cars on Friday )or was it Thursday?) me and Pig knew this was on the cards last week. ;)
 
Stobart Stopper said:
Well at least the teachers at my son's school will be ok, I told them to start filling up their cars on Friday )or was it Thursday?) me and Pig knew this was on the cards last week. ;)
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How did you know? :confused:
 
Best thing to do is to fill up at an overnight garage, the tankers deliver in the early hours I think so if you can get up this is the best time to get in there while the idiots are all in bed. I was going to go in to Romford tomorrow but I know there's a Sainsbury's petrol station in the Brewery shopping centre, right in the middle of the car park so I am giving it a miss.
I suppose I could slum it and take the bus! ;)
 
Even if the protests are effective (not garanteed), it's only going to be for three days! Get a grip, FFS. If people just filled their cars as normal supplies won't run out! The whole bloody thing is yet another media hype.
 
haven't noticed anything yet in hackney

i rememberthe last one, i had an old car that took 4star, that lasted ages, as hardly anyone used 4star...

if it gets to a stage when i have to queue for hours to fill the car up, i'll just get the bus, can't be arsed with queuing :mad:
 
quite a few people queuing this morning in Birmingham. i have already seen one petrol station that had no fuel. its only going to get worse before it gets better. i reckon the media have been pretty instrumental in panicking people into filling up by reporting on a go-slow by the lorry drivers. is it actually definite that there are goign to be blockades of refineries etc yet?
 
It's getting worse here in Hainault, just been to get a paper from the shop opposite the Jet garage near the station and there are cars queuing down the road now.
 
Well after saying that I could get petrol in Bristol on Sunday. I got back up here lastnight. To queues on the forecourts Diesel only signs and people saying sorry wev'e got no unleaded. I tried 5 garages for petrol to get me back to work and no joy. So Im stranded cant get to work until they get more in. It didnt look hopeful as they said that they have to wait there turn as most places in London were out.

I've pretty much got to try and find somewhere thats got fuel within a couple of miles of here as the bikes empty.
 
Fuzzy said:
quite a few people queuing this morning in Birmingham. i have already seen one petrol station that had no fuel. its only going to get worse before it gets better. i reckon the media have been pretty instrumental in panicking people into filling up by reporting on a go-slow by the lorry drivers. is it actually definite that there are goign to be blockades of refineries etc yet?
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we went home from seeing somenoe via 4 petrol stations last night, 2 with no unleaded and 2 with such big queues its was hideous :mad:

we filled up in the end on the grounds we werne't convinced there would be any today (cos we were just about on empty)

and there were a few people filling cars and jerry cans up too :rolleyes:
 
Space Girl said:
there is no fuel in my local town, next think you know the supermarkets will be out flour and yeast as people start to panic buy
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If instead of laughing at the government:- Preparing For Emergencies, booklet, people had actually read it there would be no need to panic buy food.
My wife and I have always had a store cupboard filled with tinned and packeted food, flour, dried yeast ect. We also have several methods of cooking in case of power failures. (Power failures are a very real risk if the winter is bad this year).
 
Tesco in Barkingside: The queue for petrol now stretches out into Cranbrook Road. You can get in and out ok for shopping but it appears that people are already stockpiling bread and milk as well! :confused:
 
Given that most people only have their cars' tank to store fuel in (plus maybe a 5 litre can or two) then surely pretty soon everyone will have a full petrol tank and people will not be able to "panic buy" any more than the usual quantity?

It's not like people over-buying foods, where they can keep loads of extra stuff in their houses, is it?

Unless there actually IS disruption of supplies, this must pass very soon.

Giles..
 
after the last fuel strike, way after like 2years after i was filling one of those big green army gerry cans up in st reatham on the way to a party and was getting funny looks. a concerned lady finally came over and asked if i 'knew anything?'

turns out she thought i had some inside info on fuel protests and was visably starting to panick, then someone else asked and someone asked the lady that asked me and it seemed to spread in a kind of rubber necking panicky what does he know what we don't etc :rolleyes:

also when i told them it was for a generator to run a sound system they didn't believe me and seemed to think i was holding back vital info, cue mini panic.
selfish fear mongers :mad:
 
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