People are fulling up cars that they might otherwise only fill up periodically. While fuel tanks aren't elastic that creates an eleasticity jn demandm and it canntake some week for that to recover as people ultimately still burn much the same amount.
Weve also seen much container filling, people with jerricans, a dozen fuel cans, even wastebins and vases.
Until everyone resumes their normal buying pattern, and does so long enough for demand to re-regulate itself at previous levels, the problem will continue, although the longer time goes by the rules of spatial comptibility start to regulate the matter instead. It surely cant be long until the latter starts to bite, and has probably already done so in much of the UK.
