PANIC BUY!

[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.

[Potter]

Or just a storm in a teacup that was a panic buying crisis and now it's over?

[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.

[Potter]

Likely more a tabloid and social media frenzy

Agreed, I said exactly that, and it caused panic buying.

I won't quote the people on here vehemently claiming it was going to be an enduring crisis (they don't like me), but there was a lot of "stop calling it panic buying, that's not what it is" etc.
We haven't even got to the weekend and it appears to be over.

The overarching shortage is going to endure and needs dealing with, but the acute "crisis" was tabloid sensationalism at it's best.

[Mussels]

Not over here yet, the queues aren't bad at our local BP but I couldn't get any diesel in there at 6am this morning.

[MingtheMerciless]

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[Yambo]

[Hoonercat]

The first I read of this 'crisis' was last Thursday (from memory) on the BBC, an article saying a very small number of BP petrol stations were closed as there was a driver shortage. TBH I didn't really think anything of it. My daughter messaged me the next day, telling me there was a major problem with getting fuel in the UK, I replied something like 'Don't be daft it's just BP that have a few petrol stations closed because of driver shortage'. She sends me a picture of her local BP, all pumps coned off, and tells me the queues at the other 2 local petrol stations are huge and causing traffic jams. That told me
Everyone rushed out to buy fuel based on a story about a small number of stations being closed, and now it's all the media's fault for making them do it. The British public seem to have developed a habit of blaming everyone else for their own choices

[slowsider]

It was the Sun wot won it.

[MingtheMerciless]

5 petrol stations with 4 miles, only one had fuel and a HUGE queue. So it’s not getting any better in my little corner of East Sussex!

[Supermofo]

Just took my son to the hospital in Epping. Massive queue at the local Sainbury's. Noticed the BP looked empty so assumed it was out. Then I noticed it had a tanker in it, then I saw the mile long queue on the other side on the road waiting for it to open. The other BP was out.

Joy.

[slowsider]

[Mr. Dazzle]

Drove past 3 stations today. 1 was shut, the other 2 had queues that only just spill off the forecourt. Compare that to Sunday when they were spilling out onto the road for a couple of hundred metres.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I got a full tank of unleaded for my car last night and a full tank of diesel for my wife's car this morning, no queues

[Gregor]

I nipped over to Ile de mouton for a full tank, first fill up since the 13th.

No fuel to be found in Maidstone or Sittingbourne, none at J8 M20, looks like there were a few people having a sleepover in the carpark Sunday night.

[Count Steer]

I nipped over to Ile de mouton for a full tank, first fill up since the 13th.

That's dedication!