PANIC BUY!

[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.

[Potter]

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

If it's reported as fact then you have to decide depending on the story and who is releasing it I suppose, but I rarely see fact reporting in UK media, it's opinion pieces with cherry picked 'fact' to suit the agenda.

Even 'facts' are tricky to process, when I speak to non-UK people about the UK I often hear stuff like it's awash with knife crime, or paedophiles, which obviously I try and reject, but then they show me 'facts' printed by the media about knife crime or Operation Yewtree, or Rotherham.

So you have to apply a bit of common sense, otherwise 'facts' don't really mean very much.

[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

[Potter]

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

And everyone sat there laughing at it.

The question to ask is what are we sitting laughing at now that is going on right under our noses?
(spoiler - it's not running out of petrol)

[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.

[Potter]

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.

They believe peoples stories that they go to them with, without checking them properly.
Then they print them and people think it's gospel.

I don't know why people are surprised to hear this, the press sometimes get taken to court and lose because of libel.
IIRC the director of the BBC had to resign about ten years ago when they gave out news that was absolute lies, I can't remember what it was about now and can't be arsed to google, but they tried to hush it up as much as possible.

I trust the news on here before them.

[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

[Mr. Dazzle]

IIRC the director of the BBC had to resign about ten years ago when they gave out news that was absolute lies, I can't remember what it was about now and can't be arsed to google, but they tried to hush it up as much as possible.

You mean the situation with Dr David Kelly, the Hutton inquiry etc?

[Yambo]

The end of new diesel and petrol cars was scheduled for 2030.

Due to unforeseen circumstances this has been brought forward to next Wednesday.

[Cousin Jack]

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.

Out and about on the bike on Wednesday. passed at least a dozen petrol stations, one was out of fuel. SiL busy panicking because Morrisons have no fuel
Thursday, out in the car, passed 5 or 6 petrol stations, 1 was out of fuel (a different Morrisons)
Friday, out in the car, passed 1 petrol station, busy selling fuel.
Saturday, popped down to Tesco, still selling fuel.

Plenty of panic last weekend, but it all seems to be over now locally. Except perhaps at Morrisons.

My car has enough for about 600 miles
Wife's car has enough for about 300 miles
Bike has enough for about 150 miles.
All without topping up except when sensible, ie when down to about 1/4 or less.