It's got fuck all to do with the government. They tell the current state of the problem and give advice on how to deal with it.
Joe Public, don't give a fuck about any of you, definitely not behaving in a public spirited way, so fuck the lot of you, I'm filling my car with fuel, get some more in the babies feeding bottle if I can, now on the lookout for turkeys for Christmas even though that's months away and I'm happy sorted, fuck the lot of you.
I've got enough petrol to keep me going but these daft twats are now lugging way more petrol in their tanks than they need and so are paying more per mile than they need to. Meanwhile, while they're driving around with full tanks costing more to lug about, the stations will eventually be resupplied and I'll take my petrol as normal with no problem.
Panic buyers are some of life's most disgusting and low life's of our society. It was shown not too long ago when the shelves were emptied with NHS staff suffering. My only complaint about the handling of the recent problems is that we haven't stamped down on the rats of our society