Petrol Panic Buying Observations

[Stalker-of-the-deer]

All the fuel you could ever need in fort william....not a sign of panic anywhere

Got down to penrith 30 quid max fill at the last station with fuel. That was the only fuel I could get between Cumbria and Hull

 

[NoIDeer]

Just watched a pump attendant close the unleaded pumps to save what was left for emergency services. That's costing someone dearly. The media really do need to pay for this?

 

[Dunwaters]

If, as suggested there is no failure of supply but merely delivery then the media deserve a proper reaming and the lemmings deserve to be registered as such on their number plates and forbidden any fuel for 2 weeks.
Havent bought any for a while but have to soon I think.

If the delivery system has failed then you have a failure of supply.
Diesel, petrol or bog roll, if its not on the shelf its not available therefor you guys have got a shortage.

 

[gerarddwatts]

If the delivery system has failed then you have a failure of supply.
Diesel, petrol or bog roll, if its not on the shelf its not available therefor you guys have got a shortage.

Don't be silly. The 'delivery system' which was working perfectly well last week, can't cope with numpties making unreasonable demands on it this week. It'll work perfectly well again once they grow up.

 

[NullMac]

Have not heard anything from the ****wits telling is to stop producing Oil & Gas NOW

 

[Apthorpe]

Have not heard anything from the ****wits telling is to stop producing Oil & Gas NOW

Those clowns are already hitting us through the recent gas price spikes, caused not only by the Russians but by spastics (e.g. Dutch morons and brain dead judge vs. Shell) preventing Western oil companies maintaining their supply of gas.

 

[Apthorpe]

If the delivery system has failed then you have a failure of supply.
Diesel, petrol or bog roll, if its not on the shelf its not available therefor you guys have got a shortage.

Luckily you don't live next to a country that likes playing idiotic geo-political posturing games to everyone's detriment so are less affected by this sort of thing.

 

[Dunwaters]

Luckily you don't live next to a country that likes playing idiotic geo-political posturing games to everyone's detriment so are less affected by this sort of thing.

Oh God but we might just be in that position, cans and cubes at the ready..

 

[Dunwaters]

Don't be silly. The 'delivery system' which was working perfectly well last week, can't cope with numpties making unreasonable demands on it this week. It'll work perfectly well again once they grow up.

Your delivery problems are being blamed on a lack of tanker drivers, they take a bit more than a week to hire, train and qualify.

 

[User00047]

Looks like my kids have the day off school tomorrow
Not walking 10miles with my 2 yr old.

 

[johndeere]

words fail me

 

[gerarddwatts]

Your delivery problems are being blamed on a lack of tanker drivers, they take a bit more than a week to hire, train and qualify.

Only by half wits trying to blame Brexit. There is a general shortage of drivers, Germany for example has a shortage of between 45000 and 60000 drivers.
Of course we need more drivers, but the ones we had last week managed perfectly well until fools went mad and created a crisis. It'll be over again in a few days and normal service will resume.

 

[baguio]

words fail me

Did she really fill the bin up with water?

 

[JTO]

The nearest BP filling station has had the pumps coned off for about 4 days. Morrisons, about 600 yards away, has a queue all round the carpark and out in the road. As I drove by Morrisons about 2 hours ago, a tanker was pulling in. That must be the second delivery since Friday morning, when the local rag reported Morrisons was out of diesel, because I bought 46 litres there on Friday afternoon.

 

[slider]

Just watched a pump attendant close the unleaded pumps to save what was left for emergency services. That's costing someone dearly. The media really do need to pay for this?

Not sure I follow the logic of that, if the station as sold their fuel quicker that usual they still have the cut from that. I don't believe there will be any less fuels sold over the piece, its just a "lumpy" supply.

Once the horders that usually only buy £20 worth have filled up once they cant fit any more fuel in their tanks!

 

[slider]

Your delivery problems are being blamed on a lack of tanker drivers, they take a bit more than a week to hire, train and qualify.

But there is no great lack of drivers - just media driven frenzy that made people that normally run with 1/4 of a tank fill to the top and cause a "lump" in demand

 

[Klenchblaize]

Fuel availability aside this does serve to demonstrate the fragility of life as we know it in the UK and dare I venture take for granted?

Orderly queues at the pumps and supermarket checkouts as I write may indeed be the commendable and by default British way but just how much or indeed little would it take to see this tolerance unravel big time?

My view is a great deal less than we might imagine.

K

 

[Rasputin]

Only by half wits trying to blame Brexit. There is a general shortage of drivers, Germany for example has a shortage of between 45000 and 60000 drivers.
Of course we need more drivers, but the ones we had last week managed perfectly well until fools went mad and created a crisis. It'll be over again in a few days and normal service will resume.

Spot on anyone blaming this on Brexit is just a remoaner toss piece. How we can go from being ok to dead in the water over the space or a few days isn’t a driver problem they didn’t just all drop dead it’s a planning failure driven by the media.

 

[NoIDeer]

Not sure I follow the logic of that, if the station as sold their fuel quicker that usual they still have the cut from that. I don't believe there will be any less fuels sold over the piece, its just a "lumpy" supply.

Once the horders that usually only buy £20 worth have filled up once they cant fit any more fuel in their tanks!

The garage is guaranteeing supply to the emergency services, cant get get a delivery on time and is losing sales, someone will be paying for that either the garage or the taxpayer? My point is the media need to stop trying to **** the country up for a story and get on side!

 

[shakey jake]

i was told by a guy that ran an agency deiver firm that hmrc have started enforcing a rule about self employed drivers doing to many hours for 1 firm, last year he had 900 drivers in stobarts each day, once they had to register as employed alot have said no due to the loss of income