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

[Cirrus]

Easily done….why only yesterday I connected my Nissan Leaf to the gas cooker. Clearly a senior moment.

And a new leaf blower is invented.....

 

[swee'pea99]

Meanwhile, on my morning walk which started going up through the town first, the bus into Perth had only 5 people on it but there were streams of single occupant cars. What a waste of fuel, but until public transport becomes an awful lot more attractive how can people be encouraged out of their cars. Either a bumpy, noisy ride on a bus that's usually frozen in the winter when you can sit in your comfy car in peace and quiet with warm air blasting. It's too much for most people to give up it seems.

As a longterm denizen of achingly green/woke/you name it north London, it's struck me more & more as the money's moved in how important a shiny black Chelsea tractor seems to be to so many of my neighbourhood planet-saviours. And this, mark you, in a place where public transport is efficient, frequent, comfortable, fully accessible to the disabled, free to the elderly, and broadly agreed by its users to be generally in good nick. The local council tried blocking off a major commute run for a few weeks as part of an effort to get pollution out of the heart of town, and guess what: the locals went bat shoot crazy.

People are idiots, and irredeemably selfish.

 

[Joffey]

People are stupid. The media didn't tell everyone to go and buy bog rolls a year ago.

 

[Pale Rider]

As a longterm denizen of achingly green/woke/you name it north London,

Blimey, Tottenham's changed since I was last there.

 

[slowmotion]

If your van is near empty on fuel, there is no difference.

But if you are filling up when nowhere near empty, because you are worried about there being enough stock for you to do so later, then you are panic buying. It is people filling up for that reason which causes those queues.

Judging by the fuel gauge, I've got 8.6 litres. Am I allowed to get some more, or will I end up in the stocks?

 

[swee'pea99]

Blimey, Tottenham's changed since I was last there.

We don't go to Tottenham. There be dragons.

 

[Pale Rider]

We don't go to Tottenham. There be dragons.

There ought to be a decent football team there, but regrettably at the moment there isn't.

 

[Saluki]

Today I needed to use the car. 30kg of dog food delivered to friend’s house as I am generally at work on delivery day (note to self to change this, he’s moving across the county). I had difficulty getting out of the top of the road as the queue to the Esso garage, some 3/4 mile up the main road, was blocking the junction.
I managed a 3 point turn and went a different way. I have enough fuel for errands requiring a car, not enough to visit aged Aunt and take her shopping though.
Bit irritating but I had thought that the panic might have subsided a bit by now.

 

[Landsurfer]

And i quote ...
There was no shortage of tanker drivers 3 months ago
There was no shortage of tanker drivers 1 month ago
There was no shortage of tanker drivers 1 week ago

Have the Daleks landed and exterminated them all ??

 

[Brandane]

And i quote ...
There was no shortage of tanker drivers 3 months ago
There was no shortage of tanker drivers 1 month ago
There was no shortage of tanker drivers 1 week ago

Have the Daleks landed and exterminated them all ??

The problem is there's not enough tanker drivers (or tankers for that matter) to cope when demand suddenly doubles or trebles over the short term, as has happened in the last few days.

The great British public expect that it should just be a case of opening another can of drivers, and tankers, to keep petrol stations supplied for a week, and then when it all dies down again (as it soon will) put them all away in a cupboard somewhere until they are needed again.

The public. Don't you just love them? After several decades working for and with them, nothing surprises me any more.

 

[fossyant]

Fairly simple, nobody going to work due to lockdown, then told to WFH, petrol use down, drivers needing work, go find work else where. People slowly start to go back to work, government say 'OK no restrictions', things get busy, more fuel needed, folk back working in September, one or two stations run short... PANIC....

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I'm working in Lisbon this week and I'm amazed to find that this story (more accurately, the queues and panic buying) is all over the national news channels here as a top story. It's bound to be a big story in the UK, of course, but I wasn't quite prepared for the Portuguese media to be showing such an interest.
I thought I'd be escaping it a for a couple of days.

 

[fossyant]

I'm working in Lisbon this week and I'm amazed to find that this story (more accurately, the queues and panic buying) is all over the national news channels here as a top story. It's bound to be a big story in the UK, of course, but I wasn't quite prepared for the Portuguese media to be showing such an interest.

Wait for the panic buying in Europe !

 

[Brandane]

I'm working in Lisbon this week

Can you bring us back a few litres of unleaded?

 

[fossyant]

Can you bring us back a few litres of unleaded?

In a carrier bag in your suitcase - it will be fine !