Fill up your car "in the normal way"

[Captain Nemesis]

urges our Glorious Leader.

Well - my "normal way" would be to go into a filling station tomorrow and stick about £100-worth of unleaded into my tank.

Since Im now at the stage of the warning light on, and the trip computer no longer showing a range, I wonder if BJ or someone in his office can tell me which garage within a few miles I can go to and do what he wants me to do.

 

[transam]

Act normal is what he wants every one to do

The Uk needs normality back

Transam is adopting the

every man ( person) for him self

approach

 

[motorbiking]

I filled the GFs car up at the start of all this as she was les than 1/4 of a tank - which on a 116d is about a gallon. My car is just over half a tank and I’ve resisted topping it up.

There is a good chance this panic buying issue was triggered by a carefully planned press release designed to put pressure on the government.

 

[JohnD]

There is a good chance this panic buying issue was triggered by a carefully planned press release designed to put pressure on the government.

Or possibly the truth got out, as, sooner or later, it was bound to.

How long do you think you can hide dozens of petrol stations with no petrol?

 

[ellal]

Spoke recently to a couple of friends, one in Spain and one in Germany...

Apparently there are no problems there, and the UK is regarded as a laughing stock - and self inflicted!

 

[gas112]

Seemingly to get over the crisis one of the companies is going to make fuel out of insect urine
I think its BP

 

[HERTS P&D]

Its seems to me that it is a good way of getting rid of the old stock of E5 petrol before it goes out of date.

Andy

 

[conny]

How long does it take for petrol to go out of date? I'm not talking about the change from E5 to E10 but just standard petrol.
People are advised to empty their mowers at the end of the season, to avoid 'bad petrol', but I never have and in over 6 years I've never had any problems starting it next season.

 

[Brigade77]

How long does it take for petrol to go out of date? I'm not talking about the change from E5 to E10 but just standard petrol.

Modern petrol is a MASSIVE problem for those of us with older motorcycles & we share our pain with users of many other petrol engined machinery.

Modern petrol has a shelf life & some respected sources are advising this can be as short as 30days.

 

[securespark]

There is a good chance this panic buying issue was triggered by a carefully planned press release designed to put pressure on the government.

Or possibly the truth got out, as, sooner or later, it was bound to.
How long do you think you can hide dozens of petrol stations with no petrol?

Don't know the mechanism, but I do know that the emotive language used by the papers ("pumps run dry', "Winter of discontent") is bound to worry the general public and a percentage of them will rush out and panic buy.
I can't see a repeat of 1979, though, so "Winter of discontent" is way OTT.

 

[motorbiking]

Or possibly the truth got out, as, sooner or later, it was bound to.

How long do you think you can hide dozens of petrol stations with no petrol?

It was having a very minor impact on a small number of filling stations. The issue we are facing is a shortage of lorry drivers. Part of the problem is that it is a horrible job. There is so much local government could do/not do, to improve that situation. While it's a significantly bigger country with a lot more space, the approach they have in France is vastly better. The truck stops are nice and the facilities free. In the UK our councils are a bunch of NIMBYs that don't care if they push a problem on to someone else. All vehicles are seen as source of revenue and pollution. We need nice truck stops with good public toilets. Local government should have a responsibility to provide facilities, not simply banning HGVs all the time.

 

[ellal]

It was having a very minor impact on a small number of filling stations. The issue we are facing is a shortage of lorry drivers. Part of the problem is that it is a horrible job. There is so much local government could do/not do, to improve that situation. While it's a significantly bigger country with a lot more space, the approach they have in France is vastly better. The truck stops are nice and the facilities free. In the UK our councils are a bunch of NIMBYs that don't care if they push a problem on to someone else. All vehicles are seen as source of revenue and pollution. We need nice truck stops with good public toilets. Local government should have a responsibility to provide facilities, not simply banning HGVs all the time.

In order to get decent treatment (not only for truck drivers) you need to change the mindset of a nation.
And that means investment in people and not profits for the few.

Hence why the tories rejected the 'european social model' and allowed brexit to happen...

Things are only going to get worse!

 

[Lower]

I filled the GFs car up at the start of all this as she was les than 1/4 of a tank - which on a 116d is about a gallon. My car is just over half a tank and I’ve resisted topping it up.

There is a good chance this panic buying issue was triggered by a carefully planned press release designed to put pressure on the government.

It was the road hauliers association that leaked what bp reported as lower than normal forecourt stock levels. However, they didn’t leak the fact that bp said they didn’t expect any shortages as long as there was no change in buying pattern.

The RHA leak was intended to put pressure on the government to allow foreign drivers into the country to reduce driver wage inflation pressures.

 

[Takelitterhome]

Things are only going to get worse!

Appears to keep you Happy....Silver Lining and all that.

 

[SirGalahad]

There is so much local government could do/not do, to improve that situation. While it's a significantly bigger country with a lot more space, the approach they have in France is vastly better. The truck stops are nice and the facilities free. In the UK our councils are a bunch of NIMBYs that don't care if they push a problem on to someone else.

Wait on. These councils have had their budgets cut by 40% and they have to raise income from whatever course they can. Added to this is the free market, private property rights neo liberalism pushed by the Tories - why should councils provide these services for free ?

Other countries realise that the wider benefits can be captured by not charging but providing these facilities.