PANIC BUY!

[irie]

People like landscape gardeners and anyone that uses plant need cans of fuel or they cant work. So it may not be just for selfish storage reasons...

Must be a huge increase in landscape gardening.

As a result of panic-buying, fuel refiner Essar said sales volumes from its Stanlow, Northampton and Kingsbury terminals over the last weekend were up 22% against a "normal" weekend.

[Mr. Dazzle]

You don't need everyone to buy extra fuel for the panic buying to cause a temporary shortage. You just need to alter the timing right?

Say for example you've got a garage that restocks fuel once a week. Over the course of a week their supply drops fairly consistently until they get restocked. So one tanker, once a week, can keep them open. Then say you have seven such garages. One tanker, visting each once a week, can keep seven garages open*.

If everyone suddenly buys fuel all on the same day, instead of it being spread out over a week, all seven garages will be emptied on one day. Then you might have to wait up to a week for your usual tanker to get to you and fill you up.

No extra fuel bought - but still lots of empty forecourts.

*You may meet these garages on your way to St. Ives

[Supermofo]

Yup.

I've gone from a tank of fuel a week to a tank a month since lockdown.

If I have half a tank when the news comes out of a potential supply issue but I think I have 2 weeks fuel so all is good then chances are everything is dandy.

If I and a million others like me all rush to fill that half a tank now in panic, then that's 30 litres X 1 million cars = 30 million litres of fuel demand that would otherwise have been spread out for 2 weeks in the space of 2-3 days.

Fuel like everything else now is delivered on a tight schedule of 'just in time'. But a huge spike in demand will knacker it very quickly and with no excess capacity to catch up easily. So even with calm it's gonna take a while for things to smooth out.

[Asian Boss]

The local supermarket petrol station has fuel for sale, no restrictions and no queues.

There was a nasty old bastard filling up cans though.

[DefTrap]

That's a result.
Looks like Boris fixed the massive crisis (that definitely wasn't short-term panic buying) in less than a week

Does this mean truckers can go back on our "couldn't give a toss" list? (not that they ever left mine)

[McNab]

Are we not clapping for tanker drivers tonight, then?

[Asian Boss]

Are we not clapping for tanker drivers tonight, then?

Is that for the ones we still have or the ones Boris Brexited away?

[slowsider]

You don't need everyone to buy extra fuel for the panic buying to cause a temporary shortage. You just need to alter the timing right?

Say for example you've got a garage that restocks fuel once a week. Over the course of a week their supply drops fairly consistently until they get restocked. So one tanker, once a week, can keep them open. Then say you have seven such garages. One tanker, visting each once a week, can keep seven garages open*.

If everyone suddenly buys fuel all on the same day, instead of it being spread out over a week, all seven garages will be emptied on one day. Then you might have to wait up to a week for your usual tanker to get to you and fill you up.

No extra fuel bought - but still lots of empty forecourts.

*You may meet these garages on your way to St. Ives

If the usual customers who buy fuel from one garage over a week, from a garage that is filled once a week, all buy it on the same day, the garage sells the same amount of fuel. If they use that fuel over a week, the garage will have been replenished by the time they need to refill.

[KungFooBob]

...so if she weighs the same as a duck...

[Mr. Dazzle]

If the usual customers who buy fuel from one garage over a week, from a garage that is filled once a week, all buy it on the same day, the garage sells the same amount of fuel. If they use that fuel over a week, the garage will have been replenished by the time they need to refill.

And if it were a closed system, where the same customers always visit the same garage and buy the same amount of fuel, said situation wouldn't be a problem. It's not.

That's why the UK as a whole isn't short of fuel, but local regions and specific people are.

[Noggin]

You don't need everyone to buy extra fuel for the panic buying to cause a temporary shortage. You just need to alter the timing right?

Say for example you've got a garage that restocks fuel once a week. Over the course of a week their supply drops fairly consistently until they get restocked. So one tanker, once a week, can keep them open. Then say you have seven such garages. One tanker, visting each once a week, can keep seven garages open*.

If everyone suddenly buys fuel all on the same day, instead of it being spread out over a week, all seven garages will be emptied on one day. Then you might have to wait up to a week for your usual tanker to get to you and fill you up.

No extra fuel bought - but still lots of empty forecourts.

*You may meet these garages on your way to St. Ives

Oi, none of your sensible argument and reasonable explanations here!

You know the roolz - tis the gubbermints fault and people are eejits!!

[JackyJoll]

I’m being called up!

[Horse]

"Vere de Norbiton"?

Is that somewhere near Trumpton and Chigley?

[JackyJoll]

I can hardly remember how to murder a Yorkie bar or bite squares off a prostitute.

[Jody]

I can hardly remember how to murder a Yorkie bar or bite squares off a prostitute.

You'll be rite, it states in the letter Jacky posted that training is available !

[Yambo]

When or if they get through they will have to explain why they need the fuel and then have to decide themselves if the reason is deemed urgent enough for a same day appointment or can they wait two weeks.

[Count Steer]

Yay! Got £35 worth this morning. Let joy be unconfined. I have also made the ultimate sacrifice and changed the settings from 'Dynamic' to 'Economy' - it's like driving through porridge.

(The Mrs misread one of the options and thought 'Comfort' was 'Combat'. Now that's an option they should add. ).

[KungFooBob]

The local news had a feature last night where a reporter visited 5 fuel stations in Barnsley.

One didn't have any diesel.
One had signs up saying there was a £35 limit.
None of them had queues.

Sensible Yorkshire folk.

[slowsider]

Likely more a tabloid and social media frenzy

[Mr. Dazzle]

Sensible Yorkshire folk.

Too tight to fill their cars up past 1/4 anyway.