Drago's murder deathkill slaughter massacre panic petrol buying watch!!!

[StuAff]

The station over the road had a delivery just before closing last night after being dry for a few days. Filled both bikes just after seven this morning, and it's been busy but not manic all day. Straight in to a pump both times. Quiet now, but they still have fuel. Enough in my bikes for two full working weeks, so should be fine now. If not, there's always the self-powered option.

 

[stephec]

I've heard things are that bad that Chris Rea's already started walking home for Christmas.

 

[Drago]

As you know I take the American papers too, andmits quite amusing to see the picture they are painting of this panic buying fuel crisis. If you believed the NYT thr UK is wedged firmly between the stone age and bronze age, yet there are no queue or the like up my end.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Coming back to #BrokenUK tomorrow so I've filled up the tank on this side of the Channel.

 

[Drago]

My Dad came back from France/Belgium on Saturday and was braced for doom and gloom, a UK transported back to 1973.

He drives off the train at Ashford, and straight up to the pump at the first petrol station he came to. It cames as a bit of a surprise after a week of foreign media portraying the UK as being devoid of any combustible material whatsoever

 

[classic33]

Any offers on two litres of petrol purchased in 1996?

 

[kingrollo]

Things quite bad in the black country again. First 3 stations totally empty. Seemed plenty of diesel - but not much unleaded and super unleaded very scarce ....and feckin expensive .

Weird all seemed normal at weekend.

 

[DRM]

Filled up yesterday at Morrisons in Consett, no queues, no shortages, just water dripping through the canopy during the monsoons across the North East, all other petrol stations I’ve passed were open and running normally

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Scheduling a refill in March

Try Chatteris just down the road. The refill in March will be in April.

(With thanks to @Speicher 👍)

 

[mistyoptic]

Three places in Stafford with fuel and no queues. J15a on M1 no fuel as we passed

 

[Profpointy]

It's interesting how only people who can't afford one themselves refer to then thus.

I dunno. My car, which I've had for the last 10 years cost me maybe 3 week's take home pay, so I dare say I could have afforded a brand new 4x4 if I'd really wanted one, albeit would have very much emptied the piggy bank.

EDIT the filter has substituted 4x4 for the original more scathing epiphet. I'd quite like a proper 4x4 like one of these below

I may one day buy one of these which would be around the same money, though very much a serious purchase needing careful thought

 

[mjr]

Belgium[...] their news is full of detail about their own 'fuel crisis'and allegedly empty supermarket shelves. It seems that despite their lofty editorial claims Le Soir is ultimately just as bad as the Mail over here for fanning the flames of panic buying.

Belgium's "fuel crisis" is just that prices have gone up recently. RTBF have given as much coverage recently to the UK's long queues as that. They're also facing a (smaller than the UK) price jump in natural gas, but I've not seen news of mass energy retail company collapses yet.

RTBF and newspapers have reported on empty supermarket shelves, but most of those have been about disputes at some logistics depots including a big Kühne & Nagel one at Nivelles... a dispute which is also affecting cross-Channel supplies (if you wonder why certain supermarkets have patchy supply of many Italian products for months now, this is part of it) but I think it's being masked by the UK's own problems.

 

[mjr]

Three places in Stafford with fuel and no queues. J15a on M1 no fuel as we passed

But that cannot be: J15a is near @Drago and everything is sunshine and unicorns near him!

 

[Reynard]

Try Chatteris just down the road. The refill in March will be in April.

(With thanks to @Speicher 👍)

As a citizen of the area, it's a fairly typical giggle.

 

[Badger_Boom]

A forecast is a prediction. It’s making a prediction about something at a future date.

No it isn't.

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