Petrol the new toilet roll

[Barry]

Local Shell was taped off, and Morrisons had a queue halfway up the bypass.

[RobYob]

Fucktards on the A11 queuing into the left hand lane.

[Rich B]

The BP I drove through in Bracknell on the way back from work was fine - pumps open, and my missus filled up in Cobham with no queues.

[Jobbo]

200 metre queues in the village today. doesn't help that the Tesco/Esso was ramraided 2 weeks ago and they haven't reopened it yet so the Texaco/Coop is being hammered. At least I put £40 in the TVR last night.

Yes but was that enough for you to make it home ?

Dave!

In a TVR you only need enough fuel to get you to the next breakdown and the AA take you the rest of the way

[Simon]

All stations out of fuel down here apart from the Tesco and that had a queue around the car park.

Both cars running low and actually need fuel, not just a sanity top up like I bet 90% of the dickheads out today.

I'm gonna start being more selfish in future I think. Tired of being nice to my 'fellow man' when my 'fellow man' is clearly a cunt.

[Simon]

Fuck it. In the end took both cars in turn to the Tesco and filled up there. The queue took about 30 minutes for the Merc then after about 20 minutes for the Yeti (as it was that much later).

It means I can now still contemplate going to the work social next week and the wife can stay mobile with the little'un.

Figured it best to do that now whilst it's the middle of the night and everyone else in the house is asleep rather than laying in bed fretting about it, or worse, sitting in the lounge masturbating to increasingly shameful pornography.

[nuttinnew]

Twenty minute queue at two in the morning?! Dayumn. It was my intention to do a mid-night run but for once I fell asleep and stayed asleep

[Gwaredd]

My van is empty, my car has about 50 miles left. I'm not queuing for it when I know there will be nobody at the pumps next week, as everyone's tanks are now full and deliveries are continuing as normal.

[duncs500]

At least, unlike toilet rolls, most people won't be able to hoard a 6 month supply.

[Mito Man]

Hmm, have people started taking Jerry cans yet

[duncs500]

Apparently some are doing that, yes. People are so fucking mental.

[Alex88]

Of course there is no hgv driver shortage in the eu either. #Fact

Not saying there isn't, but they're not having petrol stations closed through lack of drivers are they? Also a recent survey of people in the industry cited the top 3 reasons for the crisis as Brexit and drivers retiring joint first followed by the recent IR35 rule changes. #Fact

As apposed to a large amount of good drivers leaving as the wages have been pushed so low they earn more money in Sainsbury’s. So that £5 overnight allowance didn’t really cut it.

Only 1 stayed in working for Shell, 2 other relatives quit about 5 years ago as they were getting paid less than years before after agencies were just too cheap to compete with. I think Tesco’s and M+S we’re well paid as they had their own drivers and trucks but I don’t know if that is nationwide.

I know my Cousin complained a lot as each year he earned less with less benefits.

The haulage industry caused this, not Brexit. It should be a skilled position transporting goods around the country, not cheapest wins at all costs. I’ll ask a friend how he sees it as he has been in since 2018 ish.

Dave!

Newsnight had Andrew Bridgen on; he reckoned that the Gov was made aware of a shortage of drivers as much as 6 years ago, and that there's more than enough qualified drivers in the UK right now, but not enough was done to retain them and not enough is being done to bring them back to the profession. Also said that businesses should have prepared for Brexit impact and reduced reliance on cheap EU labour. Let's also remember that there's a huge HGV test backlog due to Covid restrictions.

[Simon]

What garages should've done, instead of rationing fuel to £30 a customer, was to check fuel gauges of people entering and only allow those with a quarter tank or less to fill up. That way you wouldn't have had those idiots topping up with £10/£20 when they were mostly full anyway. That way you'd probably have had just about normal levels of demand yesterday.

When I am king these are the rules you can expect.

[Jobbo]

What garages should've done, instead of rationing fuel to £30 a customer, was to check fuel gauges of people entering and only allow those with a quarter tank or less to fill up. That way you wouldn't have had those idiots topping up with £10/£20 when they were mostly full anyway. That way you'd probably have had just about normal levels of demand yesterday.

When I am king these are the rules you can expect.

There would still have to be queues of stationary cars to achieve this.

Well done on filling up both your cars though. If you actually needed the fuel, surely they’d have been full already?

[Mito Man]

What garages should've done, instead of rationing fuel to £30 a customer, was to check fuel gauges of people entering and only allow those with a quarter tank or less to fill up. That way you wouldn't have had those idiots topping up with £10/£20 when they were mostly full anyway. That way you'd probably have had just about normal levels of demand yesterday.

When I am king these are the rules you can expect.

When I am king I’ll just have those topper uppers executed and removed from the gene pool. You just know they’re the same people who stockpiled toilet paper, pasta, rice and bought 2 dogs during lockdown which they’ve already given up to a rehoming centre.

[speedingfine]

If you actually needed the fuel, surely they’d have been full already?

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[Simon]

What garages should've done, instead of rationing fuel to £30 a customer, was to check fuel gauges of people entering and only allow those with a quarter tank or less to fill up. That way you wouldn't have had those idiots topping up with £10/£20 when they were mostly full anyway. That way you'd probably have had just about normal levels of demand yesterday.

When I am king these are the rules you can expect.

There would still have to be queues of stationary cars to achieve this.

Well done on filling up both your cars though. If you actually needed the fuel, surely they’d have been full already?

Yes but we only needed them to be full for tomorrow with family birthdays, so normally I would've filled up tonight when getting our Saturday takeaway. As it is now all the petrol will be gone now and there's no guarantee of a Saturday tanker delivery.

As for my fuel gauge idea, yes there would've been a hit of a queue but it takes 5 seconds to check a guage compared to 5 minutes to fill a car. And when word gets around people wouldn't even bother to go if they weren't eligible. Or maybe just put up a sign warning people?

[Simon]

If you actually needed the fuel, surely they’d have been full already?

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I think it was too clever for my sleep deprived brain

[Simon]

[NGRhodes]

:/ https://www.reuters.com/article/factche ... SL1N2N023L