to think this petrol station is being ... naughty?

00100001 · 2021-09-27T08:38:46+00:00

so a local filling station is publicly announcing they're only open for emergency services to fill up - turning others away. But, on the down-low... if you give them £10 and they'll let you fill up ... AIBU to think that's not on?

DebbieHarrysCheekbones · 27/09/2021 09:39

girlmom21 · 27/09/2021 09:53

One of our local garages is refusing to let anyone with a fuel card fill up because they have set rates on fuel cards but the garage has increased their prices for the general public,

araiwa · 27/09/2021 09:54

Don't they always go bust after?

amillionmenonmars · 27/09/2021 09:55

I do hope that people remember those garages that are putting up prices at this time - and no longer return their with the business. A couple of shops tried it on with the panic buying of some goods last year. They are very, very quiet now.

PineappleWilson · 27/09/2021 10:42

Presumably though, they have enough fuel for emergency services plus a few others? not sure how you'd tell at a glance that the car was a window cleaner rather than a nurse filling up though. If people are willing to pay £10, let them get on with it. Fuel stations will be calmer as we go through the week, and people can't spend their work hours queuing.

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00100001 · 27/09/2021 10:45

@PineappleWilson

Presumably though, they have enough fuel for emergency services plus a few others? not sure how you'd tell at a glance that the car was a window cleaner rather than a nurse filling up though. If people are willing to pay £10, let them get on with it. Fuel stations will be calmer as we go through the week, and people can't spend their work hours queuing.

presumably some sort of ID is given t "prove" your key worker status, just like in lockdowns etc?

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HelplessAndLost · 27/09/2021 10:54

Once you have the fuel in your vehicle how they can stop you using the card?
I could show my debit card to get onto the forecourt but then just use a fuel card to pay.
What can they do? Make me pump it out again?

sst1234 · 27/09/2021 11:20

That’s extortion. Name and shame them.

girlmom21 · 27/09/2021 11:25

@HelplessAndLost

Once you have the fuel in your vehicle how they can stop you using the card? I could show my debit card to get onto the forecourt but then just use a fuel card to pay. What can they do? Make me pump it out again?

They could decline your payment, I guess?

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00100001 · 27/09/2021 11:54

@HelplessAndLost

Once you have the fuel in your vehicle how they can stop you using the card? I could show my debit card to get onto the forecourt but then just use a fuel card to pay. What can they do? Make me pump it out again?

presumably, you have to go with cash. Or they add £10 to the price when you go up to pay?

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HelplessAndLost · 27/09/2021 12:02

@girlmom21 Suppose so but then what? If I don’t have the funds in my bank account not sure how else I could pay. Just a nightmare shit show all round isn’t it.
One of my DC has a really important medical appt tomorrow and it’s 30/40 mins away.
We have to go every week so I’ll use what diesel I have left to get there and back tomorrow and then just hope I can get some again before next week.

girlmom21 · 27/09/2021 12:34

@HelplessAndLost I guess they know businesses will have alternative methods of payments and that's who they're trying to screw over here.

Hopefully you'll be ok tomorrow - lots of fuel stations by us seem to be much calmer today! Fingers are crossed for you. The last thing you need is to worry about fuel of top of medical appointments.

RandomLondoner · 27/09/2021 12:55

I do hope that people remember those garages that are putting up prices at this time - and no longer return their with the business.

Putting up prices is the economically correct way to deal with the crisis. Government should be encouraging every petrol station to put up prices by say a pound a litre, or whatever it takes to make the queues dissipate.

Lougle · 27/09/2021 12:59

@RandomLondoner

I do hope that people remember those garages that are putting up prices at this time - and no longer return their with the business.

Putting up prices is the economically correct way to deal with the crisis. Government should be encouraging every petrol station to put up prices by say a pound a litre, or whatever it takes to make the queues dissipate.

So the rich can pay and the rest just suffer?

ancientgran · 27/09/2021 13:01

@amillionmenonmars

I do hope that people remember those garages that are putting up prices at this time - and no longer return their with the business. A couple of shops tried it on with the panic buying of some goods last year. They are very, very quiet now.

Maybe they are having to pay more for it and have to pass it on. They can't run at a loss. Having said that I have no idea if wholesale prices have gone up.

Theunamedcat · 27/09/2021 13:02

@RandomLondoner

I do hope that people remember those garages that are putting up prices at this time - and no longer return their with the business.

Putting up prices is the economically correct way to deal with the crisis. Government should be encouraging every petrol station to put up prices by say a pound a litre, or whatever it takes to make the queues dissipate.

And how will the rich get there coffee then? Its not sahm who "need fuel" its workers care workers Dr's nurses everyone who needs fuel is buying it