To think if you don't want people to panic buy fuel...

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... you probably shouldn't tell them not to?

YABU. What would you prefer? Keep quiet that there's a strike happening at all and just let people find out on the grapevine?....

But would people find out on the grapevine? With the internet, of course some would, but not as many as when it's on the 10 o'clock news. It makes me want to fill up, even though I consider myself a fairly rational person.

It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it?

I keep a prudent eye on my fuel guage and top up when necessary

You fill up more often than you should and create queues

S/he panic buys and causes shortages

It's rational to fill up....

I had absolutely no idea there was going to be a strike...

It would explain the massive queues at every bloody garage i tried this morning! Good god i only put £15 in...!

What we should be buying fuel... OMG!!! I'll rush out and panic buy now

I didn't actually know anything about this.

Unless you only have a car as an option to get to work or some other emergency must do daily activity then no you shouldnt be panic buying..or just topping up/keeping filled up.

I assume supplies will be earmarked for essential services?

Id rather see buses and freight kept on the rds than lazy feckers who insist on driving TBH.

I agree that everyone else should got and panic buy fuel, however, I might pop along to the petrol station myself to fill up, just in case.

You can now panic buy stamps too. First class is going up by 14p!!

the second any Govt asks the public not to panic buy, a stampede starts. Twas ever thus.
I might panic buy chocolate. Just in case deliveries cant get through....

How long notice of a strike do the union have to give?

Filling up now, whilst supplies are normal, is probably the best thing to do (as petrol stations can be replenished), rather than seeking fuel once regular deliveries are suspended and there is a possibility that stations will run dry, as even with the military onnstand-by, deliveries may be patchy.

I just had to fill the car up with petrol. The tank was nearly empty so I had to fill up anyway but I suppose I looked as if I was panic buying (though only to everyone else there, who probably were panic buying). What shocked me was the cost - it normally costs just over £40 to fill up. Today it was over £50.

Though the think about panic buying is, it's entirely rational for an individual to fill up with petrol, just disastrous when everybody does it. But we all act as individuals not a group, so from our own point of view we're being very sensible, as someone said up thread.

I might panic buy chocolate. Just in case deliveries cant get through

Now thats a sensible idea.

Amberleaf you are lucky that public transport provides for your needs. It doesn't meet my needs, specifically on one day a week where I have to attend 3 meetings, 25 miles apart, within 4 hours. Public transport would take 2 hours to get from meeting to meeting and cost more than I earnt.

The car is quicker, cheaper and more enjoyable and allows me to get other things done as well on the way.

Your life may suit public transport but your judgy pants wedgie seems to be preventing you from seeing that not everybody is in your situation.

I do love the way drivers are called Lazy...
schools break up this week, so dd will be home for 2 weeks.
so how else will I get her to youth scheme?
or will those who judge come and push her wheelchair for me?

I knew nothing about this until I saw it on here this morning.

I have just returned from Sainsbury's and filled up my tank.

Thanks for the heads up.

Needed to fill up today, on empty. Live in very rural East Sussex. In Eastbourne, DH's hospital appt. - every supermarket petrol station completely blocked - and roads - with drivers queuing for fuel. Went to normal Shell station, waited half hour in queue, managed to fill up. Should keep us going for about 2 weeks, if we're careful - no public transport. 15 mile round trip to nearest shops.

oh bugger - I need to fill up today too as I'm pretty much empty!!
haven't seen the news - when are we going to run out (I don't have time to fill up tonight!)

Loving "judgy pants wedgie" that one is up there with cock porn (thread on things kids say). Advice needed. We are driving from the far NW of Scotland on Friday to Devon! Mad, I know but we have family to visit. Is it bad? No problems here yet as we live somewhere remote so not enough people to bother the one garage anyway. Advice wanted.

Amber - it must be lovely to be able to do without a car but many of us can't. We managed to go down from 2 to 1 after a house move but, here, a car is essential, not a luxury.

Omg - is there going to be a strike? I have no petrol - its beeping away ...better go and get some

A 25 mile walk to work seems a bit excessive to me. I filled up yesterday because I needed and I don't plan on filling up again until I'm down to a quarter of a tank again. I am dependant on the car (sadly) but I refuse to panic buy.