The "Fuel" problem

Don't panic they said.

So I didn't.

Now I have 10 miles of petrol left and all of the many petrol stations within 10 miles of me are either closed completely or have no unleaded. On the odd occasion a petrol station gets a delivery, the Facebook mob descends in their 4x4s and strip it dry within a couple of hours. It has been like this since Friday.

Luckily I can work from home and have no care responsibilities etc but I can see why people who rely on their vehicles to live or work did panic last week.

It's going to take time to sort in our area because those that have 3/4 tanks will be unnerved into filling up prematurely as soon as a delivery arrives.

To be fair, around town I’m yet to find one that’s run out, some have limited it but they haven’t even run out of that expensive unleaded that’s meant to be better but no fornicator buys yet…

Both shell garages near my house had plenty, morrisons, Asda, and the ones down Grimsby/Cleethorpe Road.

I guess it does prove just how easily people are persuaded…makes you wonder if the last two years could’ve been a lot less than they were had people the ability to make their own mind up and not trust sensationalised media…

I filled up (E10 unleaded) at Tesco in Cleethorpes today. Less than a quarter of a tank so I thought I'd top up if there wasn't a queue. Didn't need to wait at all. However, I'm well aware that it is different in N.E. Lincs in comparison to many areas. My brother in law (Norwich) is struggling to get fuel and we were due a delivery at work from the south east yesterday which had to be cancelled because the driver couldn't get any fuel.

It all depends where you live, really. In N.E. Lincs, the vast majority of folk work very close to where they live. Due to our 'end of the line' situation due to geography and transport links, there won't be a huge amount of long-distance commuting going on in our neck of the woods. Once people have filled up, it isn't likely that many of them will need to again for a week or two so few issues with fuel. In heavily populated areas or places from where people do a lot of commuting, not the same situation.

You'd also hope that the refinery quite literally down the road might mean that restocking local filling stations shouldn't be too much of an issue!

Don’t worry. All those German expats are going to come to our aid. The ones with driving licences from before this century are eligible to drive 7.5 tonne vehicles. 😆

Besides, it’ll all balance out. Pretty soon because there aren’t enough agricultural and food processing workers there won’t be much food to transport so those drivers can be redirected to driving petrol tankers, and there won’t be anything worth driving to the shops for anyway.

It took the Soviets successive five year plans to achieve such shortages. Boris has done it in under two years. Stalin was half-baked by comparison. 😂

Three cheers for Comrade Boris and all his friends in the Red Wall. Fraternal greetings from Soviet peoples. We salute everything you are doing for the cause.

We were out on Saturday and driving home from Reading in about fifteen miles we passed eight empty petrol stations.

Here in the South the situation is far worse that anyone will admit. Anyone driving to Woking on Saturday I am working here this week, and this morning walked past three dry stations.

I wouldn't be surprised if Boris the great self-protector doesn't lock us down in the next few weeks citing Covid worries, but really just using that as an excuse for the lack of fuel and empty shelves in all the shops.

Crazy times.

Quoted from Hants.Mariner

We were out on Saturday and driving home from Reading in about fifteen miles we passed eight empty petrol stations.

Here in the South the situation is far worse that anyone will admit. Anyone driving to Woking on Saturday I am working here this week, and this morning walked past three dry stations.

I wouldn't be surprised if Boris the great self-protector doesn't lock us down in the next few weeks citing Covid worries, but really just using that as an excuse for the lack of fuel and empty shelves in all the shops.

Crazy times.

Nah…the army will sort it out…well that’s what they’re telling us.

Apparently there has been no fuel panic in Northern Ireland. I wonder why that is. It can’t be because it is still effectively part of the Single Market, because the driver shortage has nothing to do with Brexit.

Turkeys are a lot more relaxed about voting for Christmas this year.