For those who live near enough, Strensham Services on the M5 (just north of the M50) have the largest fuel tanks in Europe. I think they are used as a civil defence fuel supply point. When the last fuel crisis took place 15 or so years ago, they never stopped pumping fuel. Of course you will pay motorway prices.
Hold tight for a few days and hopefully normality (or something similar) will resume. Unlike the blockades in 2000 when supplies were not available this time around there is simply a delay to deliveries. There is no shortage at source but the tanker may be a day or two later than normal due to driver availability. Plus, all the hoarders will not be driving more than normal so will still have full tanks in a couple of days when the pumps come back on, so it should just be a one-off spike in demand and overall average sales will probably be hardly any different. As long as you have enough for the next few days don't sweat it. This is just like the bog roll panic last year - the shelves were restocked after no time at all in reality and most of the corner shops (around here anyway) never ran out anyway.
Most of the corner shops,buy from their family/ ethnic connections,They have ways of skirting around the system and pay no tax. That is why they are so succesfull, when English shop owners are going out of business.
Agree. Apparently we have been in this logistical scenario all summer. The oil delivery companies have been managing. It’s is the newspapers that caused the stampede. If they had kept their gobs shut we’d never have known. Instead we do now know of the distribution challenges and suffer the consequences. Once the knobs have filled all their buckets with fuel then we should get back to normal. Would someone take all the journalists out and give them a talking to about what we need to know?
The Mail Online (aka the Gammons' Gazette) is the chief culprit: it quite deliberately creates a scare, then sanctimoniously condemns the inevitable and entirely foreseeable consequences. It's called clickbait.
Maybe if all the foriegn drivers, that are claiming benefits here, for kids kids they dont even have, along with the the bogus housing benefit, came back to work, there wouldn't be a problem. We would certainly have money to spend on training home grown drivers.And your comment tells me all i need to know about your tratorous attitude.
This has got just stupid now. Queues for miles and miles and the waste of police time keeping it orderly and safe. And there is no need to rush to buy. Its a scam to make money and taxes from the onslaught. If there was a shortage of drivers they would just send in the Army driver again to pick up the pieces. Joe
Looks like my job tomorrow will be off. Can get there but no certainty of getting home. Just come back from Essex and every filling station l've passed was closed, including on the M11. I think Thurrock on the M25 is also out. Stating the obvious guys, but be sure wherever you go your tank will get home. Feckin costing me money now.....
Where is all the fuel going ? People can only fill their tanks, then just use the same as they normally would. Nobody is blasting up and down the motorway, using it up, just for the fun of it,
I was wondering about chancing my arm and driving out into the boondocks in the hope of finding a garage nobody else knew about trouble is the most likely thing is I'd just use more juice on a wild goose chase
Buggered if I know Mick. Hoarders I suspect. Have you seen that video that's doing the rounds though? A woman filling a PLASTIC SHOPPING BAG and putting it in her boot
Been no issues with panic buying fuel in our little corner of the UK... and yous think the Irish are mad! Laughing aside. That is a shite situation purely caused by the media and greedy degenerate wanking dogs
To be fair she did tie a knot in the top and double bag it.... Edit: it's an old vid rehashed for the current hot topic.no less scary for that mind
