Fuel prices

[Typeflyer]

It’ll all go away soon as the moron hoarders will have nowhere to hoard!

[adderman]

It’ll all go away soon as the moron hoarders will have nowhere to hoard!

Unlikely.
People on FB now reporting when tankers are turning up at garages to replenish.
Next minute queues for miles around.

Oh and BP at Chieveley M4/A34 and later Shell at Corley(M6) were both 158.9 for diesel this morning.

[tm74sqn]

Photo in paper yesterday showing some muppet filling half a dozen cans with fuel, presumably then putting full cans in boot of his car and taking them home! Dangerous and possibly illegal?

[jimbo]

This would never have happened without the BP press leak regarding 5 fuel stations, yes only 5 ran out, coupled with irresponsible scare monger reporting by the media! Maybe because Covid is no longer the headline story something else was needed to sell papers and push BBC up the rankings?

[steamy]

I blame Brexit

[jimbo]

I blame Brexit

it hasn't helped!

[mustang5861]

This would never have happened without the BP press leak regarding 5 fuel stations, yes only 5 ran out, coupled with irresponsible scare monger reporting by the media! Maybe because Covid is no longer the headline story something else was needed to sell papers and push BBC up the rankings?

To be fair, any coverage of the 'fuel crisis' on any of the TV channels can be interpreted as 'scaremongering' just by virtue of the story being covered. Channel 4 News was, to my mind at least, guilty of blatantly stoking the fires by claiming (last night) that steps to introduce fuel rationing are looking more and more likely.

As is the case with the newspapers' insatiable desire/need to sell more and more copies, bad news guarantees TV news attracts viewers' attention like flies to a corpse. 'If it bleeds, it leads' is the accepted wisdom and that's not going to change any time soon.

Have a nice day!

[d555]

I blame Brexit

Brexit hasn't helped but there are other factors in play also. This wretched COVID pandemic and irresponsible news media for 2.

What Brexit has highlighted though is that the UK has had such a large reliance on the EU force over the last 40+ years and especially over the last 20 years that it is now no longer able to rely on its own workforce to keep the country running.
Adults today no longer want to do the , what some my think as menial, low paid jobs that keep Supermarkets stocked, petrol at the filling stations, regular bin collections...etc. Basically, jobs that without them the country will collapse.
It's all very well for young people to want continue their education for another three + years at University but it doesn't help the farmers bring in the crops, for animals to be slaughtered for the meat industry, transport goods all around the country , construction work etc, as we can't rely on overseas labour forever.
And yes, I voted to exit the EU and knowing what I know now would do to same again, as this current short-term state of affairs will resolve itself ( maybe not significantly in my lifetime, but hopefully for my children) and we will come out stronger and let's hope a more United Kingdom
Just to stay on thread I'm still seeing large queues of ovine like fools at the , mainly Supermarket, filling stations

[Condor68]

I remember in the 1980s the Budget put a few pence on a gallon.There was a filling station a fair bit outside Brechin on the Montrose road.We really struggled to get through to get to Montrose due to huge tailbacks both ways.What puzzled us was people driving to a country filling station due to a rise of 2 pence a gallon that for a 10 gallon tank was a saving of 20 pence if you filled up before midnight. That was assuming an empty tank.Cost more to get to the Filling station

[steamy]

What Brexit has highlighted though is that the UK has had such a large reliance on the EU force over the last 40+ years and especially over the last 20 years that it is now no longer able to rely on its own workforce to keep the country running.
Adults today no longer want to do the , what some my think as menial, low paid jobs that keep Supermarkets stocked, petrol at the filling stations, regular bin collections...etc. Basically, jobs that without them the country will collapse.

It only took Brexit for you to realise this?

[mustang5861]

I remember in the 1980s the Budget put a few pence on a gallon.There was a filling station a fair bit outside Brechin on the Montrose road.We really struggled to get through to get to Montrose due to huge tailbacks both ways.What puzzled us was people driving to a country filling station due to a rise of 2 pence a gallon that for a 10 gallon tank was a saving of 20 pence if you filled up before midnight. That was assuming an empty tank.Cost more to get to the Filling station

They were all from Aberdeen - as the saying goes, 'copper wire was invented by two Aberdonians fighting over a penny!'

[slogen51]

No petrol in Mildenhall or Brandon this afternoon

I have about three hundred miles left in the tank so will have to ration trips out to Mildenhall - no more photos only trips but now only if I need a number( joke, tin hat on). Apparently according to Boris the situation is improving and WE need to change our behaviour. That maybe true but he is beginning to sound like King Canute.

Shows how fragile the essential supply chains are in this modern world we inhabit. Everything is quite marginal : a small change in the average temperature brings chaos on the roads; slightly fewer number of workers causes crops not to be picked or lorries to be driven.

Thinking seriously now about a hybrid or all-electric car

[Nighthawke]

Brandon pumps were taped off yesterday when I went past. Heaving on Friday whereas usually one or two vehicles to be seen.

[Condor68]

Been a while since I heard that one Mustang but you dont see many pennies in change in Aberdeen?

[iainpeden]

Thinking seriously now about a hybrid or all-electric car

Given we have just a fairly wind free September even that might not work!

[page_verify]

Been a while since I heard that one Mustang but you dont see many pennies in change in Aberdeen?

I was once told by a Scotsman that copper wiring was invented when two Scotsmen fought over a penny.

[mustang5861]

Been a while since I heard that one Mustang but you dont see many pennies in change in Aberdeen?

You're right - and it's because I've collected them all. Here. In Aberdeen!

[slogen51]

Well I have made some ham sandwiches to keep me going while I queue for petrol after Mildenhall at lunch time today. I also may try and get the Christmas turkey from the man!

[plmc135]

Fuel available at our Sainsbury's this morning. Was not greedy / selfish like some and just took £20 worth. Took about 5 minutes. Hopefully will be back to normal when I next need a small top up.

[Philly1971]

I blame Brexit

Brexit hasn't helped but there are other factors in play also. This wretched COVID pandemic and irresponsible news media for 2.

What Brexit has highlighted though is that the UK has had such a large reliance on the EU force over the last 40+ years and especially over the last 20 years that it is now no longer able to rely on its own workforce to keep the country running.
Adults today no longer want to do the , what some my think as menial, low paid jobs that keep Supermarkets stocked, petrol at the filling stations, regular bin collections...etc. Basically, jobs that without them the country will collapse

British people will fill in those jobs once the salary reaches a satisfactory level. It’s funny that some ambulance chaser solicitor can earn a fortune and yet we now realise that lorry drivers are much more useful to society than solicitors. Therefore we need to pay those people the salary they deserve, and that goes whether they are British drivers or from elsewhere. Yes costs will go up, but we can’t keep paying people a pittance to do essential work.