How long before fuel rationing?

We'll all be in the shit soon then🫢

this and the newspapers and social media fan the flames.

This is so dangerous

The story may not be true. But what it tells us is that you'll never lose money betting on stupid.

I remember having a few days off school as the bus couldn't fuel up. We thought that was rather good at the time.

It was great - we filled up just before it all kicked off and didn't use the car too much - DH had a works van. We had some time off during the fuel strike and went to Alton Towers and Waterworld - because everyone was conserving fuel, both were really quiet! It was fab!

I think that has been debunked as fake news. The woman is in Texas and it was a few years ago. The trash media really doesn't help things.

Because of the idiots panic buying. Which surely will push prices up due to high demand.

But its not about how much we personally import from the Gulf - its about the world supply markets. If the countries that buy their oil from the Gulf can't get the supplies they need, they will look to other markets to fulfill their needs, including Norway, the US, Libya and Nigeria.

We may not get the immediate shortages, but they will come if this carries on much longer - and it will take a while to get anywhere near back to normal because once those countries that are affected switch their supply chains, they won't be in a rush to go back to their old ones and risk future instability.

The impact of the damage on processing and storing facilities across the Gulf is also massive - even if this ends in the next couple of weeks - which is looking increasingly unlikely, there is going to be an impact on supplies for years to come.

Hopefully it won't become the apocalyptic nightmare of famines that are predicted in the article someone linked above (although that is actually a very well researched piece), or even rations.

However, it is highly likely that we will see continuing price rises and potentially as a result, will have to make some fairly serious lifestyle changes compared to what we have become used to as a society over the past 40 years, and the past 10 years in particular. I'm not talking on an individual level, but a macro level.

I think we are going to have to very quickly get used to seeing less out of season product availability and also imported fresh foods - especially where production depends on hot houses, we will have to give up our reliability on 'just in time' production and households will have to give up their love of next day delivery for every little thing (and I say that as someone who definitely overuses their Amazon Prime subscription).

Panic buying is stupid, but it is eminently sensible to make sure you have a store cupboard of key supplies and ingredients which you keep topped up and have to hand back up plans for meals a recipes which don't include ingredients that may become hard to get.

I think it is also advisable to keep some cash in the house - if this thing does escalate, one of the impacts is likely to be an uptick in cyber attacks - remember how everything fell apart when the Cloudflare update took out supermarket payment machines for a few hours and bank payments were delayed - imagine that happening for a couple of days!

No fuel queues or shortages here

We could always fight a war over it

What's left in the North Sea isn't 'ours'. The licenses were sold off by the Thatcher gov in the 1980s. So if it were ever extracted, it would be sold on the open energy market by the company that owns the field and benefit the UK not one jot. We wouldn't get first dibs, or a preferential deal, or any kind of discount. So I really have no idea why people think this would help. What would help is a government helping people to insulate their homes, making housebuilders build more efficient houses and investing in renewables.

We won't run of out fuel, there won't be rationing. Stop being gullible

So I think that people are being a little naive to assume that because our fuel doesn't come from the middle east that we will be fine as long as people don't panic buy. If global supplies are effected it is not unreasonable to assume that there might be some redistribution of fuel supplies and that some fuel which was previously sold to us might be sent to other countries instead.

The other issue is that jet fuel does come from the ME so even if we have petrol and diesel there is quite a strong possibility of flight cancellations in the future.

Don’t start threads like this. It’s exactly how panic spreads really quickly.

If you are topping up your car to the brim every day, do it quietly.

There are a few pumps at every petrol station out of supplies by us, but still petrol to be had, albeit at crazy prices. For what it's worth, the last tankers that got through Hormuz before it was closed, will be docking at the various ports they were bound for in the 2 weeks after Easter. Its after that there are likely to be shortages in some things, all depending on what the orange lunatic does next of course. Not scaremongering, just reality.

I stopped to fill up yesterday, as the tank was down to about 15%, and the previous transaction at the pump I used was £3.40. Ridiculous.

People probably making sure they have full tank for Easter at a cheaper garage, there is 10-20p litre price difference at some for diesel.

Me too - I remember how quiet the roads were. It was lovely 😆

Thank you!! I’m nearly out and I do a lot of baking so I’ve added it to my list. Only two packs I’m not greedy.

I remember the tanker drivers strike. Low fuel meant high prices but people kept on driving.
Once most pumps actually had none everyone drove really slowly and there were less cars about.
I wish they would ration it because then everyone is in the same boat.

Well the poster said both were crazy, visiting family & days out 💁🏻‍♀️ (post at 15.35)

Panic buying fuel makes no sense, especially if your not filling jerry cans up by the dozen... Like once your fuel tanks full you can't add anymore anyway... Many people (myself included) fill the tank right up to the cut off any time they refuel their car.

The big question is this... Never mind the bog roll shortage of 2020, will there be another yeast shortage 😂

That's a dreadful statement. However with an 89 year old mother nearly 100 miles away and an 89 year old MIL 240 miles away, I confess, I considered it and researched it. Legally, I can only buy and store 20L, I think, so frankly it's a drop in the ocean. Just praying at present, because if we have to get to them, we have to. Presently keeping both cars full at present - not due to panic buying but because we have people who are dependent on us.

No shortages here and if I have an emergency with an elderly, I'll pay what it takes.

Well we have over 5% fewer cars that now use electric and not petrol/diesel.

Most our fuel is unaffected with the conflict.

So the ONLY problem we actually have is idiots panic buying, which will firstly make fuel suppliers up their prices to profit from this, and secondly cause shortages.

So if people just carry on as normal we won't have a problem.

(And yes, anyone who fills up their tank when they didn't need to is indeed one of these idiots).