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

[classic33]

BP closed 17 stations because Royal Dutch Shell are converting them over to electric charging stations.

They've to remove all the petrol/diesel pumps and storage facilities to do this.

 

[Pale Rider]

It definitely wasn’t whipped up by the press.

They passed on the news in a measured fashion, as usual:

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That story was published after the panic buying begun, which is why the strap is 'fuel crisis mounts'.

It also references Tesco shutting stations, which didn't happen until after the panic buying took hold.

Stories these days travel at breakneck speed, word dribbles out mid morning about BP stations being shut, and within a few hours the whole world knows about it and panic buying is well under way.

 

[potsy]

But why on earth would the national news talk about a few petrol stations closing?
Hardly a big deal, surely

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

But why on earth would the national news talk about a few petrol stations closing?
Hardly a big deal, surely

It is if you use the right language

Like PANIC PANIC - THEER IS NOT FUEL LEFT - BUY IT NOW ALL WE ALL DIE!!!!!!!!


or you could say
FUEL STATIONS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY CLOSE DUE TO FUEL SHORTAGE

cannot be denied - they could identify 10 places that have closed - from place in several parts of the country
each one has closed due to a fuel shortage

OK the one down the road was just fine - but the details are correct
That is how journalism works - that sells papers (or gets clicks nowadays)

without the sales/clicks they go bust

My ex MIL used to read the Daily Mail
bit weird for an immigrant but whatever
and she kept a pile of them in the living room until put them in the recycling every few weeks
WHen we visited I used to fine a long 2 page story and look for the facts
I would normally read through a page and a half of rabble rousing and extreme stuff
and then, after all that, I would fine a series of very well written facts that justified all the previous
in a way

I did wonder how many people got that far through the article

fun game

 

[Brandane]

Hope this is allowed under the new rules - it's news.
The fuel problem might be about to get worse; petrol giant Essar on brink of collapse, according to the Sunday Times.
Get your tanks filled quickly, people!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I suppose the press could have reported (as the BBC did, although only as the final sentence in their report) that only 1% of stations had closed, or to put it another way, 99% of petrol stations were still open.

Nah, sensationalism sells.

 

[classic33]

Will there be enough to refill my camping stove?

Will they let you fill your camping stove from the pump?

 

[Jenkins]

A couple of thoughts have occurred to me about all this, firstly thank you main stream media for creating this fuel shortage and panic buying, secondly just how much extra revenue revenue has Boris and his gang of corrupt dumbo’s raised due to the idiots who have caused this by panic buying and draining the storage tanks of fuel stations the length and breadth of the UK? Perhaps there’s some sort of a cunning plan to get some money in to the government’s coffers by working hand in hand with the various media outlets, just a thought, oh and while we’re at it, who on earth is going to let somebody loose in an HGV on Monday who passed their test last Friday, nobody’s going to do that, what’s the combined cost of a tractor unit and trailer? I’m guessing around £160,000 to £180,000 add in the ADR test, then let them loose in a moving bomb with 25,000 litres of petrol swishing around inside, it just ain’t happening.
Thank you to all you news outlets, you’ve screwed us all over once again

Not as much as they would have done if they hadn't frozen the fuel duty rate for the past 5 or more years, but at the same time allowing public transport fares to be raised by above the rate of inflation - thereby effectively cutting the real cost of motoring while making rail travel comparatively expensive.

 

[classic33]

It is if you use the right language

Like PANIC PANIC - THEER IS NOT FUEL LEFT - BUY IT NOW ALL WE ALL DIE!!!!!!!!


or you could say
FUEL STATIONS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY CLOSE DUE TO FUEL SHORTAGE

cannot be denied - they could identify 10 places that have closed - from place in several parts of the country
each one has closed due to a fuel shortage

OK the one down the road was just fine - but the details are correct
That is how journalism works - that sells papers (or gets clicks nowadays)

without the sales/clicks they go bust

My ex MIL used to read the Daily Mail
bit weird for an immigrant but whatever
and she kept a pile of them in the living room until put them in the recycling every few weeks
WHen we visited I used to fine a long 2 page story and look for the facts
I would normally read through a page and a half of rabble rousing and extreme stuff
and then, after all that, I would fine a series of very well written facts that justified all the previous
in a way

I did wonder how many people got that far through the article

fun game

Similar to hoarding toilet paper?

 

[slowmotion]

Here's a moral maze question that I'm putting to the parishioners...... I've got about ten litres of diesel in my van. I don't use it that much, but ten litres makes me edgy. I can't be bothered to queue in a line of vehicles for 90 minutes to reach the pumps at a garage.
Would it be totally wicked to walk from home to the pumps with a five litre plastic container, go to the front of the queue, spend 90 seconds filling it and pay?? Is that simply not cricket?

 

[HMS_Dave]

Here's a moral maze question that I'm putting to the parishioners...... I've got about ten litres of diesel in my van. I don't use it that much, but ten litres makes me edgy. I can't be bothered to queue in a line of vehicles for 90 minutes to reach the pumps at a garage.
Would it be totally wicked to walk from home to the pumps with a five litre plastic container, go to the front of the queue, spend 90 seconds filling it and pay?? Is that simply not cricket?

Go in the small hours to a 24 hourer. Much quieter.

 

[slowmotion]

Go in the small hours to a 24 hourer. Much quieter.

In a way, I'm not interested in the practicalities of pulling off this devilish scheme, but in the morality of it. Is jumping the queue as a pedestrian with a container pretty despicable?

 

[HMS_Dave]

In a way, I'm not interested in the practicalities of pulling off this devilish scheme, but in the morality of it. Is jumping the queue as a pedestrian with a container pretty despicable?

I suppose its perhaps correct and moral to queue up like anybody else buying petrol. But i wouldn't fancy it, in that angry, anxious environment, i would wager the risk of being crushed is higher. Personally, i'd attempt to walk right up to the pump and push in like a pillock for safety reasons, but given the pictures in the press, i better brush up on my Kung Fu skills first...

 

[classic33]

In a way, I'm not interested in the practicalities of pulling off this devilish scheme, but in the morality of it. Is jumping the queue as a pedestrian with a container pretty despicable?

Suppose, like @tyred, you didn't want it for a car. Would that make a difference?
Unlike Tyred, your need might be emergency generators for your WDC.

 

[slowmotion]

I suppose its perhaps correct and moral to queue up like anybody else buying petrol. But i wouldn't fancy it, in that angry, anxious environment, i would wager the risk of being crushed is higher. Personally, i'd attempt to walk right up to the pump and push in like a pillock for safety reasons, but given the pictures in the press, i better brush up on my Kung Fu skills first...

Thanks for the self-defence advice Dave. I'll keep a hefty wrecking bar down my trouser leg, ready for any fuel-hungry plonker.