Panic buying fuel

I drive 60 miles a day from home to horse, horse to work and reverse that in the evenings. Late last night no garage near my house had any fuel at all and by the time I got to work I had enough in the tank for about 10 miles - with a 30 mile journey home ahead of me so thanks very much to the legion of topper-uppers. I even put my folding bike in the boot of the car and a pair of cycling longs just in case I had to bale out (cycling in jeans ain't comfortable). My journey only takes me past 3 petrol stations anyway, one is on the other side of the road which means waiting to turn right in the outside lane of a 50 limit road, in a hidden dip, and there was a queue anyway, one was closed and the other fleeced me for £146.9 per gallon but at least I have about 5 days worth now. Theiving profiteering barstewards. My monthly petrol spend is more than £250 at prices in the 130s. Of course the idiot panic buyers have also laid everyone wide open to much higher prices - well we happily paid over the odds this week, didn't we, so when it goes up 3p a litre in August we won't be able to complain. Morons.

The only satisfaction I have is that I plan to have my old girl PTS at the end of the summer (don't won't to see her struggle through another winter) and I will then commute to work on the local train so the petrol stations will only see me once a month and the government won't be getting all that tax out of me. HA!!
 
TicTac said:
I would like to add that I live in the middle of nowhere and work in the middle of nowhere too but I still refuse to get caught up in this mayhem!
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Same here. I filled up yesterday but only because I was on red! One petrol station near work had run dry yesterday, but the other one I went to was ok. Not crazy amount of people at mine. Problem up here is that we have to stay quite topped up most of the time because its NE Scotland and our nearest petrol station is a 20 min drive away...
 
I have just over half a tank and in my little car that's a good 200 miles so I'm not worrying just yet. I don't have to drive much anyway only the school run and that's 4 miles each way. It's the easter holidays now so I won't be doing that now, luckily!
 
Having found somewhere (12 miles away) with diesel, I watched 3 vans filling numerous jerry cans with fuel, goodness knows how much in litres. However the petrol station allowed them to 'stockpile'.It all seems flaming wrong!
 
My husband told me today that a friend of his queued for 20 minutes behind a lady who managed to ' squeeze' £4.00 worth of fuel into her car. When she was asked why she waited so long for such a small amount of fuel the lady replied

"well the government has told us to keep our tanks topped up, so that's what I've done!"

Now that IS stupid!
 
I have a friend who is going to have to cancel competing tomorrow, due to lack of fuel. All petrol stations that their HGV lorry fits into have sold out of diesel.....
 
I'm just glad I don't have responsibility for Ned yet! I can't drive yet and my parents are refusing to drive anywhere and buses are AWFUL where I live. I'm feeling a little trapped :(
 
It's absurd. I filled up one car the other night as I was 40 miles away and didn't have enough to get home and I was not amused by waiting half an hour for fuel, bought in small volumes by people who seemed to be picking up their groceries in the shop and generally not utilising the time-saving "pay at pump" options :mad:

I need to get diesel at some point tomorrow or I won't make it to horseball and back. I don't think places are out so it's not a major problem, but the whole situation makes me want to smash people's heads together :rolleyes:
 
fatpiggy said:
I drive 60 miles a day from home to horse, horse to work and reverse that in the evenings. Late last night no garage near my house had any fuel at all and by the time I got to work I had enough in the tank for about 10 miles - with a 30 mile journey home ahead of me so thanks very much to the legion of topper-uppers. I even put my folding bike in the boot of the car and a pair of cycling longs just in case I had to bale out (cycling in jeans ain't comfortable). My journey only takes me past 3 petrol stations anyway, one is on the other side of the road which means waiting to turn right in the outside lane of a 50 limit road, in a hidden dip, and there was a queue anyway, one was closed and the other fleeced me for £146.9 per gallon but at least I have about 5 days worth now. Theiving profiteering barstewards. My monthly petrol spend is more than £250 at prices in the 130s. Of course the idiot panic buyers have also laid everyone wide open to much higher prices - well we happily paid over the odds this week, didn't we, so when it goes up 3p a litre in August we won't be able to complain. Morons.

The only satisfaction I have is that I plan to have my old girl PTS at the end of the summer (don't won't to see her struggle through another winter) and I will then commute to work on the local train so the petrol stations will only see me once a month and the government won't be getting all that tax out of me. HA!!
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I can't believe your price is right!!! 146 pounds sterling (don't have the pounds sign on my puta!) a gallon???? Even after our earthquake in Christchurch gas didn't get to that price!!! But most of us now fill up when we are getting to half way!!! Even those of us not in an earthquake zone - as far as we know!! All I can say is thank goodness we emigrated here to New Zealand!!!!
 
Alyth said:
I can't believe your price is right!!! 146 pounds sterling (don't have the pounds sign on my puta!) a gallon???? Even after our earthquake in Christchurch gas didn't get to that price!!! But most of us now fill up when we are getting to half way!!! Even those of us not in an earthquake zone - as far as we know!! All I can say is thank goodness we emigrated here to New Zealand!!!!
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Fortunatly I think it was a typo!!!!! however petrol is a around a eye watering 140 pence per liter
and diesel 145 pence but no distance licence here, most of it is tax to pay for two unnessary wars , huge foreign aid to fund dictators , a enormous contibution to the EU, and a massive welfare budget to support the unimployed young brits now we have a more efficent imigrant work force doing their jobs....
 
Hunters said:
I have a friend who is going to have to cancel competing tomorrow, due to lack of fuel. All petrol stations that their HGV lorry fits into have sold out of diesel.....
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Diesel is a lot safer to handle than petrol, so she may be able to top up lorry using jerrycans.
I went in to local garage [repairs not fuel], to find he has had a delivery of ten huge jerrycans, now I know he is not allowed to store petrol [H&H] so I assume he is going to take it home with him.
 
I went yesterday for fuel filled up cost over £110 when I was paying the lady said that the queues are being caused by people putting often less than £ 10 worth and they are thinking of having a no less than £25 rule to stop the lines of cars.
It's madness had to go vets in the next town yesterday no fuel there and the one fifteen miles north of us has none to.
Only one fuel station in the town I live near so when it's empty that's that.
 
Am I the only one who read the heading as "Panic buying foal"?

What is it about society, when an idiot the likes of Jonesy from Dad's Army, shouts out "Don't panic", a line which we all laugh at, but when it happens in real life, the world goes daft?

We always have to fear something, don't we? In the '40s it was the Germans, in the '50's it was the Commies, and now it's Islamic terrorists, and no fuel. FFS, our world's gone mad.

Alec.
 
perfect11s said:
Fortunatly I think it was a typo!!!!! however petrol is a around a eye watering 140 pence per liter
and diesel 145 pence but no distance licence here, most of it is tax to pay for two unnessary wars , huge foreign aid to fund dictators , a enormous contibution to the EU, and a massive welfare budget to support the unimployed young brits now we have a more efficent imigrant work force doing their jobs....
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A typo indeed! Sorry about that. Interestingly, the thieving pigs have now dropped the price to £1 43.9 now the panic is over. My normal garage is still selling at £1 37.7
 
Interestingly, after all the garages running out of fuel round us last Weds/Thurs, I filled my car up and put the lawnmower petrol can in the boot, then drove to Heathrow from the North West on Friday. There was not a single garage that I passed that had no fuel or any queues. I drove back up today, and it was as though nothing happened! So my car stinks of petrol for nothing, but at least I would have got home if there had been any shortages!
 
Amazing how folk go nuts over stuff. It was the same when we had the heavy snow and people were panic buying bread and milk. One guy was stopped from buying a dozen loaves in our local shop and he went psycho in the shop, so bad that the police had to be called. The BP garage at the bottom of my road shot their prices up to 146.99 for petrol, no surprise that his was the garage with no queue at all whereas Morrison's was mad busy at 137.99 a litre. I filled up on Friday morning as I always do but did not have to queue but the queue the day before was all the way back to the roundabout which brought traffic to a standstill. Its madness....one woman was putting 3 quid in her car ffs. There needs to be some kind of idiot control put in place for these things
 
I am stunned sp many do not usually fill their tanks completely up! I hate filling up so always cram in as much as I can ( and never fill up unless needed ) it costs the same in the long run ( unless the price of fuel goes down )
 
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