classic33
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Fit a second tank in the boot and fill both.
Drago's murder deathkill slaughter massacre panic petrol buying watch!!!
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Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
About 15p an hour?
ClichéGuevara
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- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
Very rough ball park figures. There are around 31 million cars in the UK, each with an average of around a 47 litre tank. So around 1,457,000,000 litres held in cars.
There are about 8,000 filling stations in the UK, which hold on average around 50,000 litres of fuel. So roughly 400,000,000 litres of fuel in filling stations.
A tanker holds around 40,000 litres depending on the fuel, so roughly 10,000 deliveries to top every station up, which isn't that much when it's spread around 8,000 stations.
Sits back and waits for teacher to correct my maths.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
It's also not certain it will return to normal because:
1. if people simply run their vehicles full-to-full with frequent top ups, and they're still using them as much (or even more because of hunting fuel and queueing), the supply network will only recover by the difference between max supply and normal demand. There will be no sudden recovery.
2. Some of the incompetent fuel storage will leak and be lost unused.
On this afternoon's ride, Esso had all pumps bagged and Sainsburys was empty of vehicles (a hedge and near miss with a give-way-jumping motorist prevented further inspection).
1. if people simply run their vehicles full-to-full with frequent top ups, and they're still using them as much (or even more because of hunting fuel and queueing), the supply network will only recover by the difference between max supply and normal demand. There will be no sudden recovery.
2. Some of the incompetent fuel storage will leak and be lost unused.
On this afternoon's ride, Esso had all pumps bagged and Sainsburys was empty of vehicles (a hedge and near miss with a give-way-jumping motorist prevented further inspection).
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
It’s like lockdown 1. The roads are empty as all the drivers a queuing up for fuel they don’t yet need.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
Derbyshire drivers queue for hours at closed petrol station
In Facebook post, the force's Mercia Police safer neighbourhood team said: "It soon became clear that the drivers had been queuing at a petrol station for several hours, despite the fact that the garage was not open to the public and was unable to serve fuel following unknown persons who had caused damage to some of the petrol and diesel pumps.
"With regret, officers, who were stood outside in pouring rain directing traffic, were subjected to abuse and a series of inexplicable excuses of why they needed to enter a closed garage that was unable to sell fuel."
One male motorist said he had been driving for more than three hours looking for fuel and was "furious".
"When asked how much fuel he'd used looking for petrol, he finally appeared to grasp the lack of solid ground his argument stood upon," the policing team added.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58721650
swee'pea99
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Joking aside, the roads did seem unusually quiet this afternoon when I did my usual cycle to the pool. I mused that maybe all the idiots had filled their tanks to the brim but were now avoiding non-essential journeys so's to conserve the fuel they never really needed in the first place.
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Pentlands Water of Leith
My wife had no problems filling up at the local Tesco mid morning yesterday, no queue. I walked past the local Sainsbury’s just before lunchtime today, the only sign of anything untoward was that a few of the petrol pumps were out of use. All the diesel pumps were fine. Again, no queues.
Landsurfer
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Captain Jerry has a yacht ... moored near Greenock ... He has a nice car and house ... he works hard, very hard, and has done for many many years ... He is an ADR driver ... hazardous chemical transportation .... In our friend Jerry’s case ..petroleum ... His average salary ... thats salary, not hourly rate, is circa £55k -£58k ..... Do not call him a HGV Driver .... He wears a company suit, does not pee in drinks bottles and is picked up by company driver to be taken to his loading point for the start of each 3 day shift.
This is what we are short of ........
And HGV drivers .....
This is what we are short of ........
And HGV drivers .....
Brandane
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- Location
- Costa Clyde
He's still an HGV driver, and unless his cab has an en-suite, then he has to take his chance and pee (or shyte) the same as any other HGV driver.
The tractor unit for pulling a tanker full of petroleum is exactly the same as the one that pulls a trailer full of corn flakes.
He also has a tachograph and has to comply with driver's hours regulations, so he isn't doing a 3 day shift.
Other than that, cool story, bro...
Brandane
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- Costa Clyde
Is this Captain Jerry's yacht, at the James Watt dock? It's even got his work truck parked up beside it!
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I was almost starting to hum Dignity, by Deacon Blue, as I was reading this. 😊
Landsurfer
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