to be furious I had to queue for petrol because of stupit panic buying!

[cwtch4967]

I have half a tank of fuel in my (petrol) car. I was not panicing and had no intention of filling up as I don't do much milage in my car. We are going away for a week on Saturday and it's a three hour drive, we were planning to take DH company (diese)l car and were confident he would be able to fill up before we went............cue panic buying everywhere and now everywhere round here has run out of diesel!!!
Local nurses have been unable to get fuel to get to work (rural area) and it is just bonkers!!! There is no stike even arrange yet - if there was we would have a full seven days notice.
Why are people so selfish................????

Problem with us Brits is, if we see a queue we can't resist joining the damn thing......reckon we evolved from sheep tbh.

There's another ridiculous thread about stocking up at the supermarket too.
People are such fools!

Because everyoone else is also going away a week on staurday and needs to fill thier tank, just like you!

Plus the government have specifically told us to panic buy. And stock up.

its a mass social experiment

Oh, wow, do you think so Blubberyboo?
Will we be taken into a space ship and probed?

If you wait until this time tomorrow, most people will have already filled up so there won't be a problem.

nah the spaceships haven't got any fuel

Yup, if you've got ministers telling you to fill up people tend to think there's a reason to do so.
DH reckons its a ruse to get oil companies profits up before the end of the tax year

I was in Bristol in the early 2000s when the mere rumour of a fuel shortage brought the city to gridlock.

Strangely enough this am the pumps at nearby Tesco were quiet, though i noticed the person in front of me had only put £17 worth in their car. ( I did need diesel btw ) when I left the store there was a queue out onto the main road!
DD says that would be after a bit on the tv

We don't live in a city and have 1 co-op to feed a very large town,I also have people coming to stay and a shed load of stuff to do next week.People have to get to work.Sorry but considering further petrol deliveries won't be until Tuesday you'd be a bit silly not to fill up to be frank.

DD did have it a bit confused, she was writing an essay with tv on, she reckoned its a pastie shortage we have to worry about...

So, are you saying that you've got a good reason for wanting to fill up, but that everyone else is panic-buying?

hate it all. chill.
i can get the children too school tomorrow but maybe not back but that may be a good think!

agree clam.

Agreed clam

there's a lot of "my journey is more important than your journey" going on as far as I can see.

Well I still think it's pretty selfish behaviour to fill up your tank when you already have half a tank and only do a hundred or so miles a month as two sets of my neighbours have done. Because of everyone who didn't need fuel buying extra just in case there now isn't enough for those who really do need it now -a district nurse who lives down the road and uses at least a tank of fuel a week can't get any today and is hoping a delivery comes tomorrow.

Lord, can you not see the irony here?!

If everyone had carried on their normal business there would be enough fuel to round but by buying more than they need people have created a shortage which will cause proplems to a lot of people.

I have resisted panic buying so far - hope there's some left by the time I do need to fill up. Or it'll be a boring Easter in the running house.

Diesel is up to 147.9 in our local petrol station.

I'll see your DH rats and raise him a theory. My dad noticed an abnormal number of crude oil tankers coming up Thames Estuary and thinks they are creating panic to solve a storage issue with too much oil for the refineries.

But you've got half a tank yourself. Even allowing for your trip this weekend (clearly vital! ) you probably counted as one who didn't have to queue today. And there would have been more fuel left to go round for your distrcit nurse friend, or others like her.

Not entirely sure where to start with the OP.

Why are people so selfish................????

For all the same reasons that you need diesel for your car. If there had have been diesel, you'd have filled up right? And you wouldn't be worrying about the nurses when you did so?

By all means be pissed off by it, but call everyone selfish for it under the circumstances? Really? You don't think you might possibly be as selfish as all the other people you are having a go at?

yeah i drove past morrisons earlier and they were queuing for petrol for miles

people are twats. and sheep.

People were told to fill up.

I have buggar all food in the house and will need to do a shop.

Dp has a ton of work on at work.

People have lives.

My inlaws have filled up because they're coming to us (5 hours away ) and haven't seen the kids in ages.They don't want to disappoint the kids.

So we're all supposed to sit tight and hope there will be some left.No thanks.I remember the last one and I didn't fill up,big mistake-mug that I was!!!!

I was living in a city(Bath down the road from Bristol,was a nightmare) then with no kids and dp walked to work. Things are different now.

Op not sure why you think your journey is more important