Drago's murder deathkill slaughter massacre panic petrol buying watch!!!

[classic33]

Stuff all this petrol-and-bogrolls bollocks, I've run out of olives!
I had to eschew my usual Martini and have a rum and Coke instead.
Civilisation has fallen at Doctor Towers.

With the Co2 shortage, you may be down to drinking just the run soon.

 

[TheDoctor]

With the Co2 shortage, you may be down to drinking just the run soon.

In which case I have limes. For the time being, at least.

 

[Pale Rider]

I walked past BP's london office last night - two or three security on each door - do they have secret stocks?

The climate change vandals smashed up their premises a few months ago.

BP has plenty of money, so while there is no immediate threat of a repeat, they may have upped security generally in the wake of the last incident.

BP were also among the first to close stations, so they may also feel that has put the spotlight on them.

 

[Arrowfoot]

Yep; most areas of the HGV driver issue were covered in the now closed thread in NACA..

I read the extract @Mo1959 so consciously put out. I was shocked to read how France treated its HGV drivers than the UK. This sector needs to be overhauled. Is there a union behind drivers?

 

[Arrowfoot]

I think sometime last year I posted how I wanted to move to a low rise apartment when its time to retire. Walking distance to the high street of a small town. Close to a train station. This fuel situation reinforces it. I was thinking more of convenience, lose the vehicle for expense and environment sake. Hopefully cheaper car rentals for the occasional long trips

I think it "held hostage" comes to mind.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I see the points the writer of this is trying to make, but there are some interesting details, especially when it comes to comparing the UK and France.

Compare France to the UK. I can park in nearly every town or village, they have marked truck parking bays, and somewhere nearby, will be a small routier, where I can get a meal and a shower, the locals respect me, and have no problems with me or my truck being there for the night.
Go out onto the motorway services, and I can park for no cost, go into the service area, and get a shower for a minimal cost, and have freshly cooked food, I even get to jump the queues, because others know that my time is limited, and respect I am there because it is my job. Add to that, I even get a 20% discount of all I purchase.

I grew up in a railway family, and as is probably obvious, I'm a bit of a tree hugging hippy. I remember being told many times that "of course railways aren't economical compared to trucks" when asking about the environmental impacts.

If there are "marked truck parking bays" in every town or village, and they are free at motorway service stations, and he gets a 20% discount, then either the service stations have a business model that assumes it's worth it for them to attract truck drivers, or it amounts to a substantial subsidy of trucking from local governments; after all, if I want to store 48 tons of goods in a town I'd have to pay rent.

...ask your local council just how well they cater for trucks in your district.
I know Canterbury has the grand total of zero truck parking facilities, but does have a lot of restrictions, making it difficult for trucks to stop anywhere.
Do you want me to go back to driving trucks? Give me a good reason to do so. ...
...
It surely cannot be too much to ask of a town/city to provide facilities for those who are doing so much to make sure their economies run and their shops and businesses are stocked with supplies.

What he's effectively asking for is a subsidy of the trucking industry, on top of the effective subsidy that already exists when we take into account that trucks pay relatively little towards the upkeep of the road network.

I fully understand and sympathise with his other argument, that truck drivers in the UK are treated badly, paid badly, but it means that the trucking industry relies on either having a state subsidy or exploiting truck drivers. Either way it seems the economic case for using trucks as opposed to rail is not as clear as was presented.

But fortunately there's someone else to blame:

...because of the influx of foreign drivers willing to work for a wage that is high where they come from...

There were ways to avoid this specific situation but the UK chose not to bother. It's always easier to blame someone else...

 

[Blue Hills]

The climate change vandals smashed up their premises a few months ago.

BP has plenty of money, so while there is no immediate threat of a repeat, they may have upped security generally in the wake of the last incident.

BP were also among the first to close stations, so they may also feel that has put the spotlight on them.

probably - was a bit surprised glancing through their plate glass to see some big pics of tanker ships/derricks etc - I thought those companies liked to portray themselves as powering the world on starling sighs or the like these days.

 

[theclaud]

Nice memento.

How did you dispose of the rest of her corpse?

View: https://youtu.be/kjPhFSlhOuQ

 

[Drago]

When will the idiots realise that the worst thing you can say is “there’s no need to panic buy”?

Indeed. What the lemmings hear is.."for the love of all thats holy, panic buy!!!"

The moment panic buying is mentioned in any context it is triggered.

The media should be taken to task over this. Some outlets were positively pouring fuel on the fire.

 

[Salad Dodger]

My car was starting to give me the low fuel light yesterday, so I needed to get some motion lotion. Apparently both local tesco, where I normally fill up, were like armageddon, so I went to a local filling station. It's expensive, so not usually very busy. Yesterday all 4 double sided pumps were occupied, and I was 3rd in the queue behind those people. Now filled up, and I shouldn't need fuel for maybe 3 weeks as long as I stay local.

 

[NorthernDave]

Someone posted a photo on Facebook of queuing cars at the local Sainsburys petrol station yesterday morning.
Within half an hour the local "paper" picked up this photo and posted it across all their channels adding to the hype.

Trouble is, that petrol station is cheapest filling station locally and is right by a motorway junction and is on a really poorly laid out retail park, where queues to get out onto the roads block the entrance and exit from the filling station making queues an everyday occurrence.

Still, let's not let facts get in the way of fanning the flames, eh?

PS, I filled up last weekend and have three quarters of a tank left, so I'll not be joining the lemmings

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Kendal update:

No queues at Morrisons/Sainsbury/small independent apart from the usual handful of cars.

No 'no fuel' signs either.

A curse on the media including social.

 

[Dolorous Edd]

Someone posted a photo on Facebook of queuing cars at the local Sainsburys petrol station yesterday morning.
Within half an hour the local "paper" picked up this photo and posted it across all their channels adding to the hype.

Trouble is, that petrol station is cheapest filling station locally and is right by a motorway junction and is on a really poorly laid out retail park, where queues to get out onto the roads block the entrance and exit from the filling station making queues an everyday occurrence.

Still, let's not let facts get in the way of fanning the flames, eh?

For all their righteous indignation, the media are not our protection against those in power by "holding them to account". For the most part, they are sensationalist sh*t-stirrers.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Someone posted a photo on Facebook of queuing cars at the local Sainsburys petrol station yesterday morning.
Within half an hour the local "paper" picked up this photo and posted it across all their channels adding to the hype.

Trouble is, that petrol station is cheapest filling station locally and is right by a motorway junction and is on a really poorly laid out retail park, where queues to get out onto the roads block the entrance and exit from the filling station making queues an everyday occurrence.

Still, let's not let facts get in the way of fanning the flames, eh?

PS, I filled up last weekend and have three quarters of a tank left, so I'll not be joining the lemmings

Much like the Foot & Mouth epidemic here in The Lakes in 2001.

Never did we see a 'pall of dark smoke hanging over the county', in fact we never even saw one fire despite infernoes being plastered across the news.

Also, Kendal town centre was never less than usually busy for the best part of a year that the county was locked down (Fells etc closed).

And yet, the local rag (Westmorland Gazette) had a front page picture of a deserted town as its lead article. The locals reckoned it must have been taken very early in the morning before the town got underway for the day.

Why we put up with our crap media is beyond me. If it bleeds it leads!

 

[Drago]

Word in our local chipwrapper is that serveral local forecourts ran dry yesterday.