Petrol "crisis"

happy days

happy days

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Well up here (Manchester) garages are mainly out of petrol and massive queues forming on any garage that has some. I am just onto the red so looks like I wont be going far :D .
 
Apparantly Asda in Preston ran out for a time yesterday, and I was in Lancaster at lunchtime and Asda there had run out, a tanker arrived about 1pm. I did notice other garages in Lancaster seemed about 4p a litre more than last week :shock: . Mad, the drivers aren't even on strike. Pity I have an electric lawnmower, I cannot use a fuel shortage as an excuse not to cut the lawn.


John.
 
Some garages down here on our local news are limiting 20 quid per customer . Not gonna get me far in the v8 eh !

Update , as i type Phils work partner just phoned , no diesel in local garage and about 50 cars queing .
 
It will all be used as an excuse to put prices up and the Govt will get even more tax revenue .They must be laughing at us
 
Not helped by daft government minister causing panic buying. Sometimes they just don't think before they open their mouths :shock: .
 
I appreciate that they wan't to inform the public about potential strikes but to then say do not 'panic buy' is like a red rag to a bull, it implies that there will be shortages so everyone panics and fills the car up even though they may not need that fuel :roll:
 
What a plonker he was telling people to fill petrol cans and keep them at home, sad bit is,its us that voted him in :evil:
 
happy days said:
sad bit is,its us that voted him in :evil:
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Not all of us only some......

Dearest price I've seen was £1.59.99 a litre diesel :shock: £149.99 a litre 95 :shock: £158.99 a litre 99 :shock:
Talk about taking advantage, also noticed that all the pre-priced fag packets had been taken off the shelves and new price's applied :| definately sticking the knife in and twisting it :evil:
 
stina said:
happy days said:
What a plonker he was telling people to fill petrol cans and keep them at home, sad bit is,its us that voted him in :evil:
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I never :mrgreen:
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I was just going to say, we didn't vote them in, they won by default.

Well for once I'm lucky, I'm not allowed out of the house much at the moment, so my fuel useage is very low, plus I've got no idea what's happening at the stations near us.
 
I can't say that I've noticed a problem anywhere locally. That said, the 75 and the 2000 are almost completely devoid of fuel, and the V8 is the only one with much in it. Not ideal, to say the least.
 
The Shell station in Menai Bridge is closed for the 2nd time in the week. I'm driving up to Edinburgh on Saturday and back on Sunday so perhaps the roads will be nice and empty for us!
 
No crisis here 8)

The press should just keep their mouths shut and this would've all blown over without a hint of fuel shortage anywhere. The bit that's annoying me is all the "about time someone did something about the price of fuel" noise that this seems to be generating. The strike is nothing to do with the price of fuel. All this will serve to do now is push the price up further due to the increased demand. That and the profiteering of some fuel stations that some have already pointed out.

Dave
 
Pulled into a Shell garage to fill up the girlfriends' new Audi a few days ago, and they'd just run out of diesel.. luckily the new car is petrol

Put some petrol into the E-type as well.. which was fun

Am now back in Afghanistan where they don't have petrol problems :)
 
What a glorious summer I can foresee.

Fuel shortages, water from standpipes and bloody VAT on pasties!!!!!!!!! :shock:

Seriously though the government have acted so irresponsibly here just to manipulate public opinion over the threat of strike action.

Still I'm sure there have been some pockets nicely lined over the last 48 hours and those hard up oil companies have received a nice little earner out of it.
 
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