If you keep panic buying fuel you'll be homeschooling again!😆

[FishesWithWishes]

Teachers need to teach in schools don't they?

Teachers can take their bedrolls into school, have showers and free run of the kitchens, even have parties and goodness knows what else. It will be something to look back on.

@noblegiraffe

I didn’t queue up at 5am on a weekend to fill up because MN said that if you were only going to leave the full car on the driveway all weekend then that made you a selfish fucker who was depriving nurses and ambulance drivers of actually-needed petrol.

Now people are being slated for not joining the panic-buyers filling up at the weekend?

If you had fuel on Friday, you didn’t go anywhere, you still have fuel to get to work tomorrow? Filling up because you have minimal fuel and would have done it anyway is not panic buying. If you didn’t have minimal fuel you currently have no problem.

I only fill up every month (short commute and tiny, efficient engine) so unfortunately I won't be unable to get to work unless this keeps up for at least a fortnight. Even then, a 1 hour walk to work is annoyingly doable. In my departments (I work across two) only 3 out of 15 can feasibly walk or public transport to work. I really hope the others managed to get fuel cos I'm not teaching 5 classes at once!

I’d like a mug because they’re always handy.
As a teacher is surely can't be for hot coffee. Maybe storing pink and green pens?

I hope FourTeaFallOut gets one saying 'Make way fucker coming through' on as that is how they reference themselves and I would agree.

@Anotheruser02

Don't most people fill their cars every week? Why is it reported as panic buying if they fill up this weekend? It's not toilet paper, people can't store in in their bedroom. I would usually fill up on the weekend and I'd usually have to que at the pump, when some petrol stations are closed of course the ques are longer at the ones open .

No, a full tank lasts me 2-3 weeks as a general rule.

Luckily I have 3/4's of a tank left as our local stations have all run out, lol.

I have already arranged to pick up to other teachers as I have a full tank/hybrid car so am good for the week. 60 miles a day x5; should be ok if I drive on the battery most of the time.

@Gimlisaxe

I was thinking about this, this morning, I assumed that with no fuel people would have to get public transport like a bus, then I realised I had no idea how you fuel a bus. Never seen on in a petrol station.

Once I figured that out. I assume you have to rule out buses, leaving trains, which is going to be interesting for some schools, that don't have a train station near them.

What I concluded is that it is going to be far easier to do, is when schools are finished for the day, someone comes along and locks all the teachers into their brand new cage home, then lets them out again in the morning ;)

My local bus depot has its own fuel bund, my uncle has one for his farm too. I presume that is normal practice. Remember that apart from BP being short of tanker drivers (because a contractor treated its drivers poorly), there isn't actually a fuel shortage. Deliveries are still being made at their usual rate, it's just that demand is higher than usual while people are filling up half a dozen jerry cans. So the tankers which serve bus depots, farms and railway depots will still be arriving as normal.

I should imagine covid is still an issue as it takes out groups of workers?

@TurnUpTurnip

I don’t really get stuff like this, people are acting like they have no choice but to drive, what do people without cars do, how do they possibly cope 🙄

I don’t think there is a single house in the village that doesn’t have at least one car. There is very little public transport , last bus back is around 5pm , first bus to the nearest town is about 8.30am . Some people cycle . My husband commutes about 50 miles along a major road artery which is quite a hefty cycle ride twice a day

If you had fuel on Friday, you didn’t go anywhere, you still have fuel to get to work tomorrow?

Yes, I do. Do you think the petrol stations will all re-open tomorrow?

generalh hybrid here too. Very grateful for it atm as can run in EV as long as I keep speed down and avoid steep (upward) hills

It’s quite clear that some people have no idea how poor public transport is in most of the country outside of the major conurbations . Plus buses here are now being cancelled for tomorrow because they don’t have any fuel either

@generalh

I have already arranged to pick up to other teachers as I have a full tank/hybrid car so am good for the week. 60 miles a day x5; should be ok if I drive on the battery most of the time.

Two!

@TiddleTaddleTat

generalh hybrid here too. Very grateful for it atm as can run in EV as long as I keep speed down and avoid steep (upward) hills

Mostly uphill on way to school and downhill on way home! 😊

@noblegiraffe

If you had fuel on Friday, you didn’t go anywhere, you still have fuel to get to work tomorrow?

Yes, I do. Do you think the petrol stations will all re-open tomorrow?

In a word yes the majority will reopen as they’re restocked on average every other day. The worst affected are also rationing the amount you can buy now. Many people have cancelled longer journeys. The busiest days for petrol stations are friday/ Saturday/ Sunday. A fuel tank is a finite size stockpiling isn’t really possible to any great degree. The official advice was to fill up if you had less than 1/4 tank. If you have less than a couple of days fuel I think you were unwise to delay filling up because of any comments on mumsnet as that would be a very normal point at which to refuel and not panic buying. If you have more than that there’s no problem and no need to talk about missing work. There’s been talk of a lack of drivers for weeks, this is the reality now, it’s a really poor situation for people living hand to mouth who don’t have the spare money to keep a bit extra in the tank, or buy a few extra groceries for emergencies

Peaseossom, but do you ever thing about moving or changing jobs?, I've never commuted 50 miles in my life and nor would I choose to

In a word yes the majority will reopen as they’re restocked on average every other day

Excellent news, no one needed to get up at 5am on the weekend after all.

@FishesWithWishes

Who on earth is voting IABU? It is what it is panic buyers... Your kids will be sent home for a lack of teachers, surely MN's worst nightmare based on last year just gone?!

Possibly because of the condescending manner of your post. You may not have meant to be but that's how it reads.

I fill up once a month. I walk to work and the shops but need to drive to pick up the dc's from activities. I've got 40 miles left.
I'm going to have a little look around town in the daytime tomorrow.

@generalh

I have already arranged to pick up to other teachers as I have a full tank/hybrid car so am good for the week. 60 miles a day x5; should be ok if I drive on the battery most of the time.

lift sharing is banned by our covid risk assessment

@Plumtree391

Teachers can take their bedrolls into school, have showers and free run of the kitchens, even have parties and goodness knows what else. It will be something to look back on.

presumably with our sons/daughters/dogs/cats etc

@JesusInTheCabbageVan Bill, thanks for volunteering. Can you come and get me at 7:50 this morning?!

Some brilliant posts on here from people who apparently cannot comprehend that not everyone lives the same way they do. They don't have a long commute, so no-one should (cos everyone can afford to live close to their work or have no desire to live in the countryside), they fill up once a week so surely most people do...is it really so difficult to imagine that people have wildly different circumstances?

No it's not hard to imagine at all, but in most circumstances it is ultimately a choice

I'll tell my colleagues they need to choose to move house in the next 24 hours to ensure they can get to school .