Energy crisis

MarkMas

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MarkMas

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So....
"somewhere between 0% and 90% of forecourts are out of fuel"
"in an unrelated incident, one of the 10 ambulance crashes per day in the UK happened near a petrol station"
"it can take a year to recruit and train a new HGV driver, and we want you to fear that there will continue be a 'petrol crisis' for a year"

I wonder how James Robinson and Jack Newman explain to their mothers what they do for a living, "We spin nonsense and half-baked statistics into headlines designed to make people frightened or outraged, which for some reason they like to read, and repost to try to make random acquaintances on social media equally frightened or outraged."
 

MrMickS

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Isn't it actually that between 0% and 90% of forecourts are out of one fuel?

Driving to Cheshire and back in the gas guzzling V8 I went past a few petrol stations before stopping at one and topping the tank up.

The I stopped at was out of diesel. Some of the others where out of E5 and others out of fuel completely. Talking to people at the event I went to they'd filled up with E5 and it was the only one left.

It appears that the insanity around filling up has spread to all fuel types.

In unrelated news I'm sure that there must be a hole in the Cali's fuel tank. Its the only explanation for the rate it disappears ;)
 

Doohickey

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I was out yesterday and every petrol station was completely out of fuel even in a one horse town in the Dales. Our local Shell obviously had a delivery yesterday and the requisite queue had built up blocking all surrounding roads. Saw a story saying that people had queued for an hour or more on the North Circ to fill up but of course they were all 'nearly empty and I'm not panic buying'.

The world is nuts.
 

midlifecrisis

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Passed a few petrol stations on my way to sportsitalia, all had queues.

N0bheads, the lot of them.
I'll need fuel on Thursday, possibly around Egham. Can I book an appointment with the Esso?
 

allandwf

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Got petrol for Rangy today, just under £100 lol. Watched in amazement as the woman in front in her quest to fill her new white Peugeot 3008 to the brim, let around 2 gallons of diesel pour through her bumper onto the ground, oblivious until I peeped at her.
 

mjheathcote

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Just done a 310 mile business visit to Cambridge and back.
Nearly all the garages on the A1M were out of fuel with their price boards switched off. One Esso garage was open for fuel and the queue was back onto the motorway, causing an obstruction.
In theory had a 20 miles excess range if I couldn't fill up before getting home, but on the A57 a BP garage was open with no queues and could fill up as normal...
 

zagatoes30

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Well I passed 5 petrol stations whilst out, all had fuel of all types, no queues and no panic - Mind you the Irish never seem to panic, they just shrug and say "it will be grand"
 

Felonious Crud

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Isn't it actually that between 0% and 90% of forecourts are out of one fuel?

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Good point. If petrol stations stock 4 types of fuel (super versions of non-super petrol and diesel) then it should be the case that up to 75% of fuel-types should be available. correct?
 

CatmanV2

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Good point. If petrol stations stock 4 types of fuel (super versions of non-super petrol and diesel) then it should be the case that up to 75% of fuel-types should be available. correct?

I believe that is the case, but I guess that would be the minimum

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