Getting prepared just in case

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Is anyone else preparing or making plans, in case the situation in the Middle East escalates?
Ive filled my car up with fuel. Should i be doing more?

How can you eat it? I look at a bowl of tomato soup and all I can think of is vampires and a bowl of blood.

Let me know, if you're close they are yours.

😂😂😂😂 I meant a litre!

Yep, pay day yesterday so I filled the petrol tank today. It will only last me 2 weeks though so not sure how helpful that will be.........

No, sorry OP, you don’t get to now play the victim and act like everyone is being oh, so mean and making sarcastic comments.

You started your thread panicking about the potential rise in petrol prices, asking what measures you should take to prepare, and then mentioned that your DH is safely in Asia.

If your thread had been about your DH travelling near the ME and that you were worried about him, people would of course have been sympathetic and completely understood that.

You’re now just changing the story because you didn’t get the answers you wanted.

I remember when it was 7/6d which is probably like a foreign language now.

This is what kicked off the loo roll crisis during lockdown for example. People buy loads more than usual ,others see them getting low on the shelves, so they buy more and so on and next thing you have fights in the aisles over loo rolls. There never was a loo roll shortage, DH was a lorry driver at the time and said they were delivering more than usual if anything of loo rolls and other basics. They were just flying off the shelves a lot quicker.

How this really affects us though is the price of debt and the price of goods, Iran knows that the West is addicted to debt and they know that the bond market is going to kick off on Monday and they also have the geographical position to seriously disrupt world trade/economics, they would have to be invaded and occupied to prevent this.

www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-revolutionary-guards-tell-ships-passage-through-strait-hormuz-not-allowed-2026-02-28/

Remember when the man used to fill it for you? None of this self service nonsense.

We don’t use our cars every day, full tanks last us some time.

Annoying, when we’ve just this week used up the last of our Brexit stash. And we haven’t a working car to do a big shop.

I bet Amazon are making a fortune on loo roll.

Oh yes that was great. Now I fill up for DH, he's disabled. How life has changed.

How does that work, do you have a petrol tanker following you around with a hose attached to your car 😂im imagining something like an aircraft refuelbin mid air

There was a company in Sweden or Finland, can"t remember now, who made loo roll and the share price went up 800% or something, that is the definition of the madness of crowds and the sort of thing Warren Buffet would have sniffed out.

Well, you don’t have to…no one is making you 🤷🏼‍♀️

Bugger this thread, I'm really tempted to go and get petrol now in case there are massive queues tomorrow ...

I do this as a matter of course.

Mine lasts about two months but if I'm honest I could manage perfectly well without it. Bit more tricky for DH as he's disabled.

Just when energy prices have fallen, here we go again

The safest place to keep it, is in your stomach! No one will get it there!

ChazsBrilliantAttitude

envy of date pile

I couldn't Took much temptation to eat it

I still have a man to do it at my rural garage. It’s a slightly higher price per litre, but no stinky hands or sweaty plastic gloves, and I get to feel like Lady Penelope for 20 seconds.

If the Iran mess puts paid to that, I’ll be using my very hardest stare on the Ayatollah.

I always find the ones that say this really are the ones who haven’t quite reached full maturity. OP is anxious, not childish.

Better stock up on shit paper

If it helps I had to go to the pharmacy to get something and Sainsbury's petrol station was quieter than normal for a Saturday when I passed. Maybe the panic hasn't started or people had enough of that with COVID.