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

[stephec]

What is it with these chumps that queue religiously for the pump on the same side as the cars filler? I typically sail past a queue of them to an empty pump and simply carry the nozzle to the other side of the car, as they are designed to do. Do they simply like queuing?

Don't you just love the look on people's faces when you do that? 😂

 

[mistyoptic]

....a lot of my fellow Brits are pig lazy, so walking around the other side of the car is far, far too much effort

and yet, they will eschew the “pay at pump” option which would save them, and the queue behind them, from the time (and in their case effort) of walking into the kiosk

 

[CXRAndy]

Rumour has it BP created this panic, in lobbying tactic to gain cheap immigration visas

 

[Drago]

Why, where are BP thinking of going?

 

[R_nger]

I guess this thread would be unnecessary if somebody important hadn’t used the P word

Enlighten us

Somebody important said there was no need to panic. Don’t say that, no panic, no thread.

 

[classic33]

Why, where are BP thinking of going?

Holland, to see some Royal Dutch...

 

[PeteXXX]

Bit of profiteering going on, too!

Billing Esso on the A45 up to 150ppl for diesel, BP on the A6 rushden up to 140ppl for diesel..

 

[PeteXXX]

Rumour has it BP created this panic, in lobbying tactic to gain cheap immigration visas

Cheap immigration drivers won't have an applicable ADR licence, though, will they?

 

[Donger]

Drove up from Gloucester to Nottingham today to take Mrs D's elderly uncle out for a drive in the Peak District. Noticed 3 petrol queues and one bollarded petrol station up in Derbyshire. On the way home, electronic signs warned of an absence of diesel at Strensham Services on the M5. Got home late and without enough fuel left to make it to Swindon for our theatre trip tomorrow. Guess what? The good folk of Gloucester had managed to empty the first 3 petrol stations we visited. The fourth had only one remaining tank with diesel and no unleaded petrol.

So we tried getting back on the M5 northbound to try our luck at Gloucester Services. Got there just as they were announcing they had run out of super unleaded. No worries, we wanted normal unleaded. Except there was none of that coming out either. Up to Junction 11A, round the roundabout and back to Gloucester Services southbound ... within sight and probably only 200 metres away. Not the slightest indication of any shortages at all. Go figure.

Our theatre trip is back on, and I'll have enough to take my bruv to his hospital appointment later in the week too. Meanwhile, I expect everyone in Gloucester will have fully fuelled cars sat in their driveways for weeks to come. At least it's not like the toilet roll hoarding crisis .... you can only take as much as you can get in one tank.

 

[mustang1]

We have to remember that some people have to have fuel in order to get to work.

But we do need to consider others

Having said that I )

Does not compute. Let me get my dictionary out........ Er nope, still does not help. What is this word "consider" you talk of in conjunction with "others"?

Edit: grrr, typos. I think the iPhone keyboard is much better than Android.

 

[DCLane]

The local nutter who drives him modded Range Rover round at 11pm until the early hours (black, noisy exhausts, modified petrol V8) is out, so he must've been able to fill up

 

[classic33]

The local nutter who drives him modded Range Rover round at 11pm until the early hours (black, noisy exhausts, modified petrol V8) is out, so he must've been able to fill up

Oddly the idiots who usually fly round on motorbikes & quad's around this time are silent.

 

[Jenkins]

Off for the weekend at Silverstone tomorrow and needed fuel having left myself with ust over 1/4 of a tank when the car was last used 10 days ago. Town centre CoOp owned one was queueing and blocking the nearby roundabout. At Morrisons they were also queueing and blocking the entry & exit to the supermarket. BP just outside the Dock is mainly a truck stop with a few car pumps, but charges a couple of pence more per litre than the other two and was almost empty. Worth the extra 80p to fill up without queueing.

Went past a couple of fuel stations in Ipswich when out for a bike ride this afternoon and things were starting to get a bit shouty! Good to be able to ride past all the stationary traffic.

 

[neil_merseyside]

Four times longer than it has to be because dicks are waiting off the forecourt for their favourite pump to come free, instead of simply picking an aisle.

Why do sheeple in cars not realise that when they are refuelling the hose will almost magically reach 'the opposite side' very easily if you can park appropriately - oh hang on I've just realised I made an assumption about parking ability - hell parking is a lesser skill than looking beyond the bonnet and not bumping into stuff ...

 

[TheDoctor]

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.