Panic buying of petrol

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Saw a funny joke on the phone.

It is a picture of a chalk board outside a pub, the top part said 'Beer about to tun out', the lower part said 'Panic buy here!, :-) very good.

That deserves a coat chewing - NOBBY !!!

[Norm]

'tun out' - for beer, that's an apt typo!   

Anyway, what we really need to know is, "Where is this pub?"   We need to know.   Now!     

(pretty please) 

Thanks - fixed, doh!

[Gwydion]

Apparently saying: 'Don't Panic!' doesn't work.

2/3 of petrol stations now empty!

[Raider4]

No one's panic buying, they're all just being sensible and prudent . . .

[Techno II]

What are you trying to say, Martyn ? 

It does seem to be very variable, area by area.

Cheers - Phil.

[Raider4]

What are you trying to say, Martyn ? 

It does seem to be very variable, area by area.

Cheers - Phil.

I may have been being slightly sarcastic . . .

But . . .

If you'd ask people "Are you panic buying?", I bet most would say "No, I'm just sensibly filling up before they run out.".

Although there are always idiots. I remember the last shortage (caused by a tanker driver's strike, I believe?), there was one local taxi driver found with three plastic bins full of diesel being stored in his house.

My car's almost empty. Luckily I don't have to use it for anything in the next couple of days. Hopefully things will return to normal soon.

[Heedless Horseman]

Apparently saying: 'Don't Panic!' doesn't work.
2/3 of petrol stations now empty!

Probably same 'News' article'... from suppliers, (issues), and not time specific, Gather some places 'Ran out' until next delivery!
Local Tesco on Sunday... small queues, but not more than usual.. and they must have been queuing for something! Myself, 80% full... but don't have to drive to work, now. Not that bothered.

Raider... also remember reading about the Taxi driver storing petrol in Wheelie Bins! Wonder if they... or house, still there? LOL!

Myself... have six BIG  plastic cans ex work, next to Boiler... still marked 'Deionised Water'... so not to scare Gas engineer... But filled with Tap Water! lo,! 

[DecemDave]

No one's panic buying, they're all just being sensible and prudent . . .

Thats how I rationalise having a 15 year stock of minis to paint......  Avoiding future increases in metal prices or the banning of single use plastic.

[hammurabi70]

Thats how I rationalise having a 15 year stock of minis to paint......  Avoiding future increases in metal prices or the banning of single use plastic.

A novice! I am still working on purchases from the 1980s!

I think London is totally dry; last night on our 50-mile trip home every facility we passed displayed a NO FUEL sign.  What was really annoying was trying to negotiate the roads in the morning with everyone queuing for fuel.  Once all the car tanks are full we will, presumably, return to something nearer normality.  We can be a smug household as we no longer commute for work and a full tank does 80 trips to the mother-in-law but I think it true that those who really need fuel are just taking sensible precautions.  Which idiot suggested the media should have a DON'T PANIC headline?

[Leman]

I've bought an electric car.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

But you are in the Netherlands - is there panic buying there ?

[steve_holmes_11]

No one's panic buying, they're all just being sensible and prudent . . .

Not all of them..

I am being sensible and prudent.
The others are panic buying.
The ones ahead of me in the queue are causing a crisis.

[Leman]

But you are in the Netherlands - is there panic buying there ?

Don't be silly, we're still in the EU with the right to freedom of movement. My downstairs neighbours are Bulgarians, on the next street live Austrians and Hungarians. Round the corner are Poles and the next corner are some Germans. Then scattered amongst the rest of us are the Surinamese, Indonesians (as a result of Dutch Empire), and the Eritreans, Syrians etc. because the Dutch don't regard asylum seekers as some kind of virus. Furthermore there is a love of HGVs in the Netherlands, so there appear to be plenty of things being hauled by lorries, plus the superb rail network and the huge canal and river network across Europe moving goods here and there. It would appear the news media are not keeping you informed that you are the only country experiencing such a crisis. That would be an admission that the Brexit experiment is not working.

[Steve J]

They had the Lithuanian haulier chap on the radio again this morning and they are still experiencing HGV driver shortages in the EU. No problems with fuel though!

[Big Insect]

I've bought an electric car.

I was thinking of that - especially now our barking mad Mayor (Mad Marvin) is thinking of introducing a low emissions zone in Central Bristol & our little A2 wont comply. Said 'zone' would starts at the bottom of our road (but doesn't include ours - so we are not exempt) - but means that if we want to leave the road to go anywhere sensible (shops or just out of Bristol) we will have to enter the zone & either comply or pay each time!!!

However, as there is only on-road parking where I live, the charging of said electric car is going to be very tricky - as you can never guarantee to park outside your own house.
The bloke next door however - who has bought an electric car in advance of the new zone coming into force - has also installed a fantastic gadget - a bit like those large gantry type overhead swivel hoses, the sort of thing you see on oil rigs and fuel tankers. So he can park his car up to 4 doors away from his house and run a charging cable over the pavement above car and head-height out to his car to charge it. I am just waiting for this year crop of students to fix their eyes on this and either try and swing on it or cut it (for drunken amusement); or one day he'll forget and park it on the opposite side of the road and the bin lorry will carry it off as it gets tangled in it.

Like all such things - there is no joined up thinking in things these days.