Panic buying next week?

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Ok very random but I work in retail and we’ve been told to expect panic buying/shortages on fuel next week due to something big happening. Am I really naive as when I was told this I have no idea what it is about? I do read the news in the morning but I haven’t seen anything that would relate to this?

I mean we have enough stockpiles of fuel to keep the country running and keep the deliveries going to restock shops.

There are fuel shortages in Cambridgeshire. My son said he managed to get some but most fuel stations are really low.
Glad for my electric car at times like this.

No, we really don't. I'm not sure why you think we do. We currently have about 6 weeks' worth of fuel and after two weeks prices would be extremely high. After about 4 weeks we would likely see rationing with supplies being diverted to essential industries

In any event the entirety of the food in the shops (including their warehouses) is around 3 days worth if it had to feed everyone in the country so if there was no more coming into the country for some reason then there would be nothing to transport anyway.

Possibly some kind of cyber attack, so make sure you have cash at home aswell as supplies. Banks could be hit as some have been recently. Waters being tested IMO. Having cash at home means you can still buy what you may need. Just be prepared rather than oblivious as some posters seem to be.

What kind of retail? It's not outing to say supermarket, so if you mean supermarket, just say so. And the government have been telling everybody to stock up for weeks now, its hardly news.

My boss knew about first lock down 3 days before it, we literally closed entire building the day before it was announced (hospitality).

Cobra Warrior exercises are on at the moment.

I misread this as 'weird shit limit'.

Amazing physiological control if that were true 😂

We have already seen the shortage. Our local station must have just closed when we got there (lunch time) so we had to fill up at motor was services and some pumps were out of unleaded.

Christmas?????

Apparently you are next week and in a panic.

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No its stationary so stock up on those bic pens everyone

Personally im stocking up on cider...unfortunately the bottles keep springing leaks

Re fuel stock, I have a couple of questions.
Apparenrly we have 6 weeks of road fuel. Can anyone put this level into context please? For example, is this more or less than we have typically had in “normal” trading conditions, ie no war or pandemic.

Given the 6 weeks & context, are the UK’s fuel refineries & importers able to keep this stock level up?
The same goes for aviation fuel though I don’t believe that has a 6 week inventory level target.

It would be ideal if someone could share the contribution from each of those sources & the confidence there is in reliability of supply, per fuel type.

When there’s a decent piece of analysis then we can decide collectively whether or not to fill our pockets full of diesel.

Depends on the cyber attack, if shops lose the use of their till systems they probably can't take cash payments either.

We have an older house so we have a pantry and I do keep stocked up on pantry items like tins and dried food etc etc but I’m not talking of warehouse level stocks of 24 cans of everything I might ever use!!!!! I’m talking about 6 tins of beans/spagetti, kidney beans/
chopped tomatoes - etc etc

if everyone goes out and goes wild it pushes up prices and means people who can’t afford to buy extra miss out on availability but also they pay more as will anyone else!

This is the problem and why there is blind panic 🫣

We have enough fuel to produce food, enough stockpiles of grains, etc to feed people, enough of everything. There is potential that supply could delay occasionally but not significantly.

And by we I don’t necessarily mean the UK alone, I mean within Europe, amongst countries who trade with each other, outside of any blocked/inaccessible fuel. Nobody will starve, nobody will be unable to get to work, there will only be real and genuine shortages if we actually panic buy

That's genuinely witty 🤭.

Having cash that will be taken at our local shops

Can anyone recommend a good camping gas stove?!

I don’t know that that’s necessarily true. No idea of facts but I’m planting next years crops right now. I have about 2000L of red diesel storage on the farm. I’ll be using that up in less than a week when I’ll be reliant upon being able to deliver. Can’t order till a few days before because if it rains all week I won’t have space to store it.

We also have generators for livestock operations. Again, we have enough diesel on site to last for about two days but no more.

We are not unusual, it’s how farming works.

There’s no magic stock of diesel I can use to plant crops. If the forecourts are short, our suppliers are short. Yes my sheds are full of last years crop (although they’re certainly not full based on the weather) but if there’s no diesel for the lorries to collect it there’s no way of getting it anywhere.

Our whole food system is based on Just in Time principles.

I'm in Cambridgeshire and haven't noticed anything. But I wish I could afford an electric/ hybrid car anyway.

Op, Trump is considering stopping exporting diesel. It's also pay day for many. I need to fill my car, as I always do when I get paid. Maybe it's a combination of factors.

I have this problem too. I always buy enough for a week and it's gone by day two. I have started to stash it in the garage instead.

Yes YOU as an individual don’t have stock, but WE as a global economy do

No there isn't