Fuel Wankers.

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Now that’s something we do have a shortage on. I hope people don’t start panic buying sunlight
It would be a catastrophe, people are sucking enough energy from the Sun as it is.

Much more and it might go out.
 

staffordjas

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After having to do some clever reversing manoeuvres around the services petrol pumps en-route back from down south , with hubby walking around the forecourts trying to spot the only one with unleaded , to make sure we had petrol to get him to work next week...... got back to Brocton garage to find plenty there and be told everything is back to normal around here now with no probs.
Should have rung them like I suggested :roll: rather than spending even more over the odds.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
After having to do some clever reversing manoeuvres around the services petrol pumps en-route back from down south , with hubby walking around the forecourts trying to spot the only one with unleaded , to make sure we had petrol to get him to work next week...... got back to Brocton garage to find plenty there and be told everything is back to normal around here now with no probs.
Should have rung them like I suggested :roll: rather than spending even more over the odds.
Everything has been back to normal round here for some considerable time.
 

pinky

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Well it appears we are at this again. I went to fuel up after a trip today and Tesco's had no diesel, we have asked around but everyone has said the petrol stations were rammed today and had run out. My other half needs some for work Monday, so if anybody is out and about tomorrow and sees diesel can you please pop on here as I feel like it may be a waste of time trying to find some and end up without anything in my tank. Thanks 🙂
 

timmo

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Sandon road had fuel this evening, no rationing either

Just seen the photo of sandon road now 😕
 
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joshua

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Main point about panic buying is that it is every person for themselves at that point. We can moralise about the right and wrongs of it but like food shortage panics there is no collective altruism. People are inherently defensive and thinking about their immediate needs and immediate family. It is what it is.

However, people filling the tank a couple of days early is not the same as people queuing round the block and taking make-shift jerry cans etc. If anything, perhaps one benefit of the previous episode might be that people are more inclined to keep their tanks topped up more regularly and that might reduce those bottlenecks if there is a sense of a shortage. If you have £5 left in the tank you gotta do whatever it takes to get some fuel. If you got a full tank already you can ride it out.
 

staffordjas

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I topped up with unleaded at a The Shell garage in Worcester each journey on Friday and Saturday , rather than my usual topping up at Brocton when I got home . (Brocton one was closed the other saturday at 5pm , so wasn't going to risk it )

No queues in Worcester at all each time , although it was 151.9 for unleaded at Shell and they had no Diesel left in any of the pumps . BP was bit cheaper (as I noticed after filling up saturday :roll: ) but despite looking busier it still didn't have queues.

Frankley services was advertising 153.9 for unleaded so not much dearer , and no signs at all saying they had no diesel at the time.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
The one on the eccy road is nearly £1.60 now, yet still had queues? I get 600 to a tank so got loads of time til I need to worry :)
 

cj1

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The one on the eccy road is nearly £1.60 now, yet still had queues? I get 600 to a tank so got loads of time til I need to worry :)
Petrol price average has broken through the 150p barrier and it's expected to keep climbing to 170p. Don't blame people for brimming off now before the surge. I topped off at 145.9 as there was no queue.
 

kyoto49

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My car needs E5, £1.67 a litre I've just paid on Sandon Road. What with the NI rise, the petrol prices rising constantly, and the electricity price doubling I can see economising becoming the new fashion/norm. Like the good old days eh 😳
 

Bob

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Morrison’s in Newcastle was horrendous earlier, I had to go at lunchtime because I didn’t have enough in the tank to get me back home and it was like people had lost their minds, I don’t know what it was a litre but it was £15 more than it has ever been to fill up 😩
 
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