PANIC BUY!

[weeksy]

First 4 empty.

Tesco seems ok in reading

[Mr. Dazzle]

Brimmed the car at Tesco yesterday (the fuel light was on and everything! ).

There was a bit of a queue but nothing mental. 4 of the 20 pumps were shut.

[the_priest]

far do you have to go to reach 5 stations? I think we've got 2 in a 5 mile radius! Any queues where they had juice? (Trip to Farnham planned on Sun but should have enough for 2-way journey).

We have around 10 in a 5 mile radius, but due to population density, most are empty. Two were running yesterday and had big queues to and from them. But I was able to fill up the car, albeit the gogo juice was expensives!

[DefTrap]

They were covering up their top stars touching kids, so you think they wouldn't make a story up to sell a bit of news?

If you watch again old footage of the interviews / appearances of Sir J-S, especially in his latter years - he pretty much tells everyone what he's up to. This one is particularly excruciating
That's ITV by the way, and that's sir David Frost letting him crack on and that's an audience of Joe public cackling at how naughty he is. And it's only 1989.

Theres an awful lot of complicit acceptance going on, is the point, can't just single out the beeb.

[Taipan]

No queues at garages round here, or at least its contained to the forecours and most seem to have fuel. Except ASDA!

[Asian Boss]

Theres an awful lot of complicit acceptance going on, is the point, can't just single out the beeb.

I don't know what it's like where you are, but having been out of the UK for ages now I look back and I can't believe what I read/see in the media. The staggering racism, bias, systematic lies, etc, that they pump out is incredible. I never used to see it because I was conditioned by it, but now I've been out of it for ages and I can see behind the curtain I can't turn off being able to see it.

Bias aside, do you believe any of what is reported as fact? Or none at all?

[Nordboy]

We don't seem to have that much of an issue where I am. The first couple of days this kicked off were fine, then 3 days of the panic buying muppets, where it went crazy. I've driven past dozens of fuel stations in the last 2 days, no queues, all (except super unleaded, which I guess is not being prioritised) grades available. I'm surprised it's still a thing tbh.

[Pirahna]

Sir J-S

I like the bit where David Attenborough was his boss. Did he know what was going on?


Back to fuel, wifey managed to fill her car at Tesco. She was chatting to the girl directing traffic on the forecourt who told her they were getting 3 tanker deliveries a day, each delivery lasts 6 hours.

[Supermofo]

So passed 7 petrol Stations on my way to my brothers in Bedfordshire all empty Thursday night.

Friday we went up to Hinkley for the Triumph factory tour, we all went to my brothers to use 1 car and he had a full tank. All the petrol stations up there have fuel and no queues.

Back to Bedfordshire and I drive home to Hertford. Passed 4 empty petrol stations before queueing in Letchworth for a Sainsburys with fuel and managed to fill up. I had 40 miles of fuel left. Between Letchworth and home all the other petrol stations were out of fuel. So it definitely has a Southern feel to the crisis.

I wonder if it's lots of people and relatively few petrol stations. Or Southerners are selfish bastards

[wheelnut]

If you watch again old footage of the interviews / appearances of Sir J-S, especially in his latter years - he pretty much tells everyone what he's up to. This one is particularly excruciating
That's ITV by the way, and that's sir David Frost letting him crack on and that's an audience of Joe public cackling at how naughty he is. And it's only 1989.

Theres an awful lot of complicit acceptance going on, is the point, can't just single out the beeb.

Fucking hell, he even jokes about been feared in every girls school in Britain, and the back seat of his car.

And I think it’s later than 1989, the car grossman pulls up in is a M reg - 1995?

[Yorick]

Plenty of fuel available here in France.... but diesel is at €1.47 a litre !

1.10€ here

[Pirahna]

Plenty of fuel available here in France.... but diesel is at €1.47 a litre !

1.10€ here

€1.55 here (Ireland)

[Mussels]

I don't think the BBC make stuff up themselves but they do seem to copy press releases without checking them, most press releases are bordering on fiction.
I have no idea what my diesel cost today, I wasn't looking at that.

[slowsider]

Plenty of fuel available here in France.... but diesel is at €1.47 a litre !

1.10€ here

€1.55 here (Ireland)

Are you east coast? It's 1.44 here in the midlands

[Pirahna]

Are you east coast? It's 1.44 here in the midlands

Roscommon. I'll double check when I go into town later.

Where are you then?

[slowsider]

North Tipp.

[gremlin]

Dropped the Gremlinette off at the station using the family bus. Took a route back that took me past four garages, all out of fuel. The CRV now tells me it has enough petrol to go 1 mile.

Seems to be a never-ending cluster fuck of apocalyptic proportions.

[Mussels]

Apparently it's mainly a South East problem now, maybe the government could tout that as part of its levelling up programme.

[MrLongbeard]

Are you east coast? It's 1.44 here in the midlands

It's only 1.32 at the Asda in Leicester & 1.33 at Sainsburys

[slowsider]

Are you east coast? It's 1.44 here in the midlands

It's only 1.32 at the Asda in Leicester & 1.33 at Sainsburys

Anglocentric