Ref sainsburys frome out of petrol what a lol

[mendiplogs]

I put fuel in 3 times yesterday because i drove down the country (not because I was panic buying lol). Once just North of Newcastle at a Shell £1.41pl, no problems, then topped up about 80 miles into the journey on the basis that I thought it would get me home £1.39pl ... then was taken on a massive diversion on the A1 which took about 45mins maybe a bit more so I had to put another tenner in at a shell garage just before Cambridge services ... this last stop was the only station that seemed to have a problem as only about 3 pumps had standard unleaded and was I hell putting vpower in my knackered rover 200, so I queued for about 15mins for the standard stuff.

 

On a more positive note though I have been offered the job I applied for as a climber over in Canada, so fingers crossed I can sort my visa and get out there

HI MORRIS it all mad here theres garage still out of petrol//dev :lol:jon

[mendiplogs]

I put fuel in 3 times yesterday because i drove down the country (not because I was panic buying lol). Once just North of Newcastle at a Shell £1.41pl, no problems, then topped up about 80 miles into the journey on the basis that I thought it would get me home £1.39pl ... then was taken on a massive diversion on the A1 which took about 45mins maybe a bit more so I had to put another tenner in at a shell garage just before Cambridge services ... this last stop was the only station that seemed to have a problem as only about 3 pumps had standard unleaded and was I hell putting vpower in my knackered rover 200, so I queued for about 15mins for the standard stuff.

 

On a more positive note though I have been offered the job I applied for as a climber over in Canada, so fingers crossed I can sort my visa and get out there

Hi There still long q at the garages in bath it's all mad here Jon

[County4x4]

Little village garage nr me had queues yesterday, blocking the roads! Absolutely stupid, people falling for the hype! This is going to cripple the country at this rate. I heard some garages put up their prices by about 5p per litre to slow down sales, didn't work!! So now we've proved that a) we will pay as much as they want for fuel and b) just the mere mention of a strike and we will panic buy. How very clever, on behalf of the truck drivers, and how very stupid on behalf of the govt. Or was it? Was it just a ruse by them all along? So the garages hiked the prices by another 5p per litre, they will drop it by maybe 3p after the "crisis", yet we will still have yet another fuel price rise. Win win for the government coffers again

 

Spot on Andy - you can't beat the great British public for making a crisis out of a rumour. Thing is too, if there is eventually a strike, all these people panic buying will have probably run out by then anyway! The government haven't helped a bit with their comments, but it's the public who have made the crisis. I did also read somewhere that the huge extra tax income from this panic will reflect in the end of year figures for the country, so then the gummint will be able to tell us how well they're doing! There's also talk of the whole thing being engineered by the govt to try and reduce the effect of any future drivers strike, their thinking being that if they have a "controlled panic" now - yeah right - we'll all be better prepared if the tanker boys do come out. Joe Public doesn't do controlled panicing though - we like to panic proerly!

[mendiplogs]

Spot on Andy - you can't beat the great British public for making a crisis out of a rumour. Thing is too, if there is eventually a strike, all these people panic buying will have probably run out by then anyway! The government haven't helped a bit with their comments, but it's the public who have made the crisis. I did also read somewhere that the huge extra tax income from this panic will reflect in the end of year figures for the country, so then the gummint will be able to tell us how well they're doing! There's also talk of the whole thing being engineered by the govt to try and reduce the effect of any future drivers strike, their thinking being that if they have a "controlled panic" now - yeah right - we'll all be better prepared if the tanker boys do come out. Joe Public doesn't do controlled panicing though - we like to panic proerly!

 

HI ANDY your right there mate it all mad :lol:in bath and frome there still very low on dev and petrol there some out there going to the garage 3/4 jerry cans mad jon

[Dts trees]

I saw 1.50 the other day in surrey jon

[Chris Sheppard]

All back to normal here at the mo - worst I saw was one Asda out of fuel a few days ago and longest I had to queue for so far was about 5 min more than normal. One station put there fuel up 1p and they are fairly dear compared to everyone else anyway so no prob.