How long before fuel rationing?

[Bettercallsalli]

A lot of talk of possible fuel rationing here if this conflict continues.
Will Airlines be able to cope? It does seem inevitable now.

The toilet roll became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Talking about car fuels, I wouldn't bother, unless you really need to travel, eg people having essential medical treatment some distance away in the big cities (you can't always use public transport for this). If you're talking airlines, that's different.

Everyone knows the situation and has seen fuel go up 20p a litre in a couple of weeks. That isn’t normal and as a nation we rely on petrol and diesel.
Of course government should say something. Why would it not?

12% is a significant percentage to lose…

Just filled my car up at our local Tesco's ( my tank was very low). Talking to the lady cashier and she told me that they are having fuel deliveries in every day instead of every 2 days as normal. Largely caused by panic buying. She said there was no need for it fuel stocks are Ok.
Stop panic buying people!

Agree, why do people insist on continuing to be reliant on oil? If we had invested in renewables earlier we wouldn’t be in this situation now 🤦‍♀️

It’s 12% of oil imports, so more like 7% of our total as we produce 40% of our own supply. And it’s only used for producing diesel and jet fuel, not petrol.

Well this is MN where taking a pebble from a beach is wanton destruction of the planet.

Wind and solar don’t work on dull, calm days…

Nuclear and storage technologies do though. I have solar and my lights are on and washing machine going despite it being dark outside - not using any mains. Nuclear for base load and renewables+storage for variable load is the future.

If she actually used plastic bags... adding a hydrocarbon-based liquid to a plastic bag is beyond stupid as this is likely to dissolve or degrade the bag.

That's what happened before though! People on social media would spread word and post pictures of queues and then people would panic and go and fill up and round and round it went for a while until eventually people stopped posting and it calmed down.

You go ahead love
what a stupid response 🙄

Same as my locals Sainsbury’s delivery every day. But the smaller petrol stations are selling out as normally they might do 3 deliveries a week and every month they would have the odd couple of days sold out anyway, so everyone’s headings to Sainsbury’s and the they keep running out. Soo ahhhh panic buy.

Agree. Costco had queues at their petrol stations here (North west), and are now limiting customers, likely it's because they are so cheap.

There isn't a fuel shortage, there's panic buying causing localised supply issues.

Someone visiting their family in Glasgow from Manchester isn't going to make a drip of difference to localised shortages in Newcastle

Drilling in the North Sea would benefit me personally and even I am happy to admit its a totally counterproductive idea.

It has to be bollocks, Sainsburys bags have holes punched into the base, the fuel would just run through when she was filling them.

Panic buying makes me sick.
Im a support worker for young adults with severe learning disabilities.
i need my car to pick them
up to do their personal chosen activities.
I love my job
I get minimum wage
i can’t afford to keep my tank topped up.
Fucking hell 😡

Some people may cut back leisure driving because of the cost of fuel. Food costs may rise because of transport costs. I doubt we'll escape unscathed

You'll be getting reimbursed by your employer I'm sure. Plus if they do ration they will prioritize for people in care roles who drive as part of their job.

For those thinking of storing fuel at home

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/know-how/does-fuel-go-off-old-fuel-and-fuel-storage-questions-answered/

No I don’t get travel allowance

I hate seeing all the papers talking about rationing and stirring people up to create an issue they can report on. It was a pain in the arse last time as I drive a lot for work so need fuel. Also drive to lots of new places so don't know where fuel stations are.
Luckily last time I went to expensive service stations as panic buyers tended to avoid those and I have a fuel card. It just creates unnecessary stress.

Im not using my car more than I have to she is economical but obviously cannot run on fresh air

I needed to lose weight anyway

You work as a support worker driving service users as part of your job and you dont get your fuel costs reimbursed?