Petrol the new toilet roll

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My mate drove to Dorset today and he said that once he was about 20 miles out of London all the petrol station were fine with minimal queues. Therefore I can only conclude that the SE is full of shitheads.
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Only if Norfolk is "SE" as it's still a clusterfuck.
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That’s all the inbreeding ;)
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All the old people who do 5 miles a week suddenly needing to brim their tanks for no reason, and all the people that have to actually drive anywhere because public transport is virtually nonexistent.
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It's not my fault, it's everyone else's.
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It's not my fault, it's everyone else's.
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nuttinnew wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:57 pm It's not my fault, it's everyone else's.
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This was about 15 years ago from memory. By far and away the best episode of HIGNFY
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:lol:
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Took me about 45 mins of driving round to find a petrol station with any fuel this evening. Eventually found one and queued for about half an hour. By the time I got to the pumps they only had diesel and super unleaded left. I'm good for another week or so now. It pretty nuts out there!
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2000 was the first petrol crisis in my living memory. That was caused by the drivers strikes.
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I had my 1st metro in 2000, it had no catalyst so I was quite happy driving around with LRP in it 😁
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The shortage seems to have reached the South Hams today. I filled up yesterday though, so looking forward to a nice traffic-free trip home on Saturday.
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Popped past Tescos just now for snacks. They had a sign up saying no diesel, but the entrance to the 24h station was completely coned off. All the diesel and a few normal unleaded nozzles had caps over them, all the super ones were clear.

I guess they’d just shut it to stop people turning up while it’s unattended and filling all manner of containers in the middle of the night.
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Fairly quiet in the Midlands, popped into Tesco and barely a queue, full tank of 99. Drove past The Asda and only a few waiting.
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I woke up randomly a couple of hours back so thought I might as well go see if anywhere had fuel. Half way in the red, I didn't fancy too much queueing. Success at the local Shell; nice, it's the station I usually use, and while pretty busy there wasn't really a queue. Not all grades were available at every pump but they were all there somewhere, and a £30 limit with a jerry can exclusion (that might be Shell wide atm). I was lucky for another reason though, a tipper had gone in just before me partly raised and it looked fecking close to the canopy. When the driver hopped out and saw it he froze for a good few seconds...

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Mito Man wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:14 pm That’s all the inbreeding ;)
Then they should be staying at home!
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Dammit! I was hoping he was on foot.
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