Fuel stations empty and car queues

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I live in a town about 10 miles outside of Edinburgh - population about 70,000.

We have several garages and I just usually go to the local Tesco as it's cheap and convenient. It seems we have no fuel at all now. The asda fuel station had a delivery this afternoon and there was a queue of cars waiting to fill up so I am guessing that will run dry again soon.

I did notice the roads seemed quieter when I was out and about and so i did wonder if people were staying home to save their fuel.

Hard to know if there are actually shortages or if everyone is just panicking.

I have to admit I usually just fill mine when it gets empty but I have been going once a week to top it back up to full at the moment.

What's happening in your local area. I've been checking FifeJammers Facebook and it seems other areas are running out too ie Cupar.

Because let’s say you normally use 1 litre of fuel a day, and fill up with 30 litres once a month, on the 15th. You’re normally buying 30 litres and then another 30 litres in another 30 days. If you decide on the 16th that the price is going up/ there might be shortages or whatever and “top up” with 1 litre, now you’ve bought 31 litres this month, 32 litres if you do the same tomorrow and so on. If loads of people do the same, there is a huge spike in unanticipated demand and we get shortages

I went this morning and no issues, £1.49 at morrisons.

Ours too! Fortunately they always move quite quickly. But they’ve been over double the normal length every time I’ve driven past in the last few weeks.

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Smug EV owner.

If this town begins with S then yes it’s been ridiculous! All the garages have been sold out by midday/late afternoon and the queues have been massive every day for nearly a week now.

South Somerset here, just been to fill up at Morrisons and out of 12 pumps only 4 had fuel. Queues werent too bad though, people were in and out quite quickly .

Same situation here, no petrol yesterday afternoon at Sainsbury's. Today they have 3 pumps out of 12 with petrol but no diesel

I live about a 5min walk from a petrol station no issues here. I’m in Lanarkshire. Drove past 2 different ones yesterday and no queues or limits etc.
I’ll just be filling up when the petrol light is on as usual.

Cornwall, no issues. Except for price obviously.

@bookishmum1 yes it does!! Right next to a town beginning with B…..

I assume that the roads will be quieter in the central belt due to it nearly being school holidays and people taking their kids away early. Trains were quieter.

The UK gets its unleaded fuel from domestic refineries and imports from Norway and the US. There are no shortages - just panic buying.
A proportion of the diesel comes from Saudi so supplies are likely to run out shortly together with jet fuel.

Big issues in Hull, most fuel stations sold out locally. I need my car for work and am on my fuel light so will have to try and do a mad dash somewhere soon!

There are no shortages and no need to panic buy. The only reason anything runs out is people panic buying. Just stop.

I filled up at a petrol station on a busy main road this morning at about 10am and was the only person there . I haven't noticed any queues or quieter roads.

It will all calm down in a week or two, the panickers can only fill up the tanks so many times. Give it time. It will settle down.

Local flights have been cancelled in anticipation of this. It’s potentially going to hit Cornwall hard this season as tourism will decline.

I clearly remember that, I’d picked up a hire car in the morning which was running on empty, gone to work, left work in the evening and every petrol station had horrendous queues 😬 and yes, because people were panic buying

No issues here at all. People are talking themselves into problems, simply fill up as normal

SW

Been past loads of petrol stations today and none were busy. But we did see 191.9 at one place.

It’s toilet paper all over again isn’t it.
sigh….

Business as usual here near Belfast. Tesco ran out of unleaded last week because their price hadn’t gone up as much as others, but all back to normal now that their price is the same as everyone else’s. No queues. Traffic a little bit quieter overall because of the Easter break as no school traffic and also a lot of parents are off work.

We are a bit closer to Edinburgh than you, and while our local Tesco had no unleaded this morning, at the next closest petrol station there was no problem. I think it's maybe just down to Easter holiday daytrips in the sunshine earlier this week - no danger of that for the rest of the week, looking at the forecast, so hopefully things will settle down soon.

NE and absolutely no difference to usual here.. not seen a single queue at a fuel station.

I'm in the West Midlands and just tried 7 garages to find some diesel, none of them had any 🤦🏼‍♂️