Panic buying

[Wolfracer]

forget derv th!nk sunflowers...

No queues here...
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Produ.../?id=271168790
on for another month as well...

[s car go]

Chaps I agree completely with the criticism of the idiotic panic buying mindset. My plan was to drive thru the UK fuelling as necessary but if garages have run out I will miss Eurostar connections and hotels etc.
Just how bad is it at the moment, here in N Ireland I have not noticed any changes.

Are you taking the Eurostar? or le Shuttle. If you're bringing your truck to France theres no issues here,and diesel is about £1.20 a liter!

Bon voyage

Mark

[Calos]

Well Llandudno (North Wales) has jumped on the band wagon, big queues at the pumps local garage restricting how much people can buy. So Vulch I'd carry the extra fuel if you can mate Holyhead and the rest of a55 garages will be same soon enough.

Aldi has some veg oil on offer this week, I'll go queue there instead.

Albannach is 100% right, it's the panic buying/hoarding that causes the shortage.

cal

[MWS]

It's all those panic buying idiots that cause the shortages! As a driving instructor, my fuel usage is unavoidable, and quite high. It gripped my $hit to have to queue for 20 minutes at Morrisons last night.........On a happier note, I've just taken delivery of 240 litres of very clean WVO, at 40p per litre, with a promise of a continual supply......Just wish I had a driving school car that would run on it...........

[Vultch]

Are you taking the Eurostar? or le Shuttle. If you're bringing your truck to France theres no issues here,and diesel is about £1.20 a liter!

Bon voyage

Mark

Well le shuttle ...the Surf is booked on the train thingy ..its just getting from Holyhead in Wales to Folkestone, I'll fill up in dublin and fill an extra approved container.

[Vultch]

Well Llandudno (North Wales) has jumped on the band wagon, big queues at the pumps local garage restricting how much people can buy. So Vulch I'd carry the extra fuel if you can mate Holyhead and the rest of a55 garages will be same soon enough.

Aldi has some veg oil on offer this week, I'll go queue there instead.

Albannach is 100% right, it's the panic buying/hoarding that causes the shortage.

cal

Thanks Carlos...just what I had feared

[charvell]

Just read on sky news that Dorset police want all the petrol stations in the uk to tempory close due to panic buying wtf

[shokenore]

Not really wanting to get into the why the tanker drivers are THINKING of carrying out strike action ,that is a totally different matter.

I am going to break one of the few rules I have (a politics rule)

My hat goes off to the totally incompetent fcukwits who are "running"the country ,congratulations for starting and feeding the frenzy of the "fuel shortage".

Of course people will now go out and buy fuel,and if they are buying more than usual or filling up wheelie bins with the stuff then it will lead to shortages , the retailers will take time to catch up on a supposed 45% increase in fuel purchases in such a short time period .

Soap box now empty please feel free to rant.

[BUSHWHACKER]

It's probably Cameron causing it on purpose, needing a nice fat cash injection for the government coffers.

Yup.

[shokenore]

Yup.

You cynics

There is no proof that the robbin' barstewards have raised an extra 32 million in extra duty

[Chris W]

You cynics

There is no proof that the robbin' barstewards have raised an extra 32 million in extra duty

That'll buy a few duck houses.

[BUSHWHACKER]

You cynics

There is no proof that the robbin' barstewards have raised an extra 32 million in extra duty

80 million was the figure quoted on the 3pm news.

[leighh]

I'm buying my diesel next week, when the forecourts are empty and the prices have come down because everyone else has got 200 litres in the shed.

[smurfL6]

I'm buying my diesel next week, when the forecourts are empty and the prices have come down because everyone else has got 200 litres in the shed.

Me too ha ha