The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

kaz7 said:
The consumer is the end user so if there are lack of drivers the product is not getting to the user so there is a shortage ? the gov are doing fuck all to get more drivers in so this will get worse
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What do you expect them to do? Tanker drivers are not just HGV drivers it takes longer to train them up
 
Keith Moncrieff said:
I actually need petrol, gonna look like a right twat
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Majority of people do.
most people have a lot of journeys or a long journey lined up - how long do they wait for?

the abuse ordinary people are getting is from the Brexit boys who just want to blame panic buyers rather than face the reality
 
Embarrassing isn't it? This is what civilization is now. Take, take and take, mostly so you can show everyone else what you have. Be siphoning off parked cars at midnight next.

It's a HGV driver shortage, not a fuel shortage, although now there's going to be issues replenishing what everyone panic buys.

Hope the government get their fingers out and relax visa rules for HGV drivers, even temporarily, or we'll find Christmas even less fun with kind of attitudes we've seen today.
 
What I did is drain all my petrol out of my tank by using the 2,000 toilet rolls I still have to soak it up I then decanted it into buckets. I then nipped back and filled up again. Win win really
 
I had to fill up as we`re travelling down to Cardiff next Thursday for a couple of night,but my local Shell garage had run out of diesel,which I use.Quickly up to our local Morrisons and by fuck what a queue but at least I managed to get some.
Our daughter who has been staying with us,is on her way to Brum to meet up with her sibling sister, but by the time she got to Morrisons they had run out.
Thankfully in the next town, Middlewich, she managed to top up.
Rationing is on its way boys and girls.
 
ell said:
If you cant get fuel at your local station, then its extremely unlikely the petrol station down the road wont have any either (Bar today where the idiots are out). Big difference between a petrol shortage and driver shortage.
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I was running on fumes so couldnt go far today, tried four locally with half mile q or emptied out but found one with people dropping out , they were out of diesel and just had two pumps with the new petrol in, managed to put a tenner in , i dont drive much so i didnt take much , the other two local to me was completely empty of fuel
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Majority of people do.
most people have a lot of journeys or a long journey lined up - how long do they wait for?

the abuse ordinary people are getting is from the Brexit boys who just want to blame panic buyers rather than face the reality
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It's never their fault.
 
Another example of how many cockwombles inhabit this country. There is and won't be a shortage of fuel unless people go out and fill out unnecessarily. A handful of BP petrol stations are closed so the whole country rushes out and fills up like sheep.
 
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