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Bizarre blaming the BBC , the only reason there is no petrol or diesel and every petrol station has sold out, is because there are a lot of selfish fckwits in this country who have spent the last few days queuing up with half a tank already in their car. Same reason no one could get toilet paper at the start of lockdown.
The supply chain is now disrupted and it will take a couple of weeks to get back to normal
exactly this, people are selfish and stupid and then just blame it all on tv news who have been saying all weekend you shouldn't panic buy
exactly this, people are selfish and stupid and then just blame it all on tv news who have been saying all weekend you shouldn't panic buy
While I’m not condoning panic buying in any way at all,if you’ve spent 45 minutes queueing to get into the garage it very unlikely that you’d only put £10 worth of fuel in your vehicle.So I guess people will be buying more to save having to queue up 2 or 3 times a week,which would lead to shortages if everyone did the same thing. But there are some real muppets out there queueing up because they’re down to 3/4 of a tank.And the people filling Jerry cans are the worst,unless they’re sharing it around to people who maybe can’t get out and queue in the Hope of getting some fuel.
exactly this, people are selfish and stupid and then just blame it all on tv news who have been saying all weekend you shouldn't panic buy
Unfortunately people hear the word panic and er, panic.
And unfortunately humans by and large are pretty stupid (me being no exception).
The situation is ridiculous, you go from one day where there is no issue (or known issue - blissful ignorance and all that), then someone shoots their mouth off in the media and you have chaos.
Just went out for my daily stroll. local garage got an enormous queue, and about 100 yards or so from the entrance car in the queue came to a juddering halt, 'been running on fumes mate' said the passeger to me.
Besides having an evil smirk across me gob, for some reason I just could not bring myself to do the gentemanly thing and help push the car.
Just what have I become, didn't even have a Chels** sticker on the car.
Just went out for my daily stroll. local garage got an enormous queue, and about 100 yards or so from the entrance car in the queue came to a juddering halt, 'been running on fumes mate' said the passeger to me.
Besides having an evil smirk across me gob, for some reason I just could not bring myself to do the gentemanly thing and help push the car.
Just what have I become, didn't even have a Chels** sticker on the car.
Four+ days gone by and people STILL panic buying despite being asked not to. Beggars disbelief.
Anyone running on fumes should fill up, anyone with 1/2 or more a tank absolutely not unless they can prove they are going on a long journey. Problem is it's impossible to manage & enforce. No way should forecourt staff risked getting abuse, or worse.
I've converted my car to running on bog rolls and pasta. Works a treat and nobody is stockpiling them anymore as they still have attic fulls of the stuff!
absolutely on the environmental and geopolitical consequences on our thirst for fossil fuels.
I'm just not convinced that electric cars are as green as they are made out to be - less polluting over their lifespan then petrol cars certainly, although I'm not sure at what point you discard your old car for a new one in an environmental sense - the ' earth cost' of manufacture and disposal. But green? Nah.
I agree, they're kinder to the environment than diesel or petrol vehicles but still not green.
Even though only wind energy was used in the manufacture or my car and it's partially made of recycled materials and its battery can be reused for storing electricity once the car is scrapped, there was still a large environmental impact involved in its production.
If you want to be green, keep anything which has computer chips in as long as possible because those chips require incredible amounts of energy and water to produce, plus the manufacturing process results in a mountain of waste, much of it hazardous. In three months this year, Intel's chip plant in Ocotillo produced 9000 tons of hazardous waste, used 561m kilowatt-hours of energy and consumed 927m gallons of fresh water.
It's best to walk, cycle, or use public transport.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Petrol queues. (n/t) on 13:41 - Sep 27 with 1919 views
I've converted my car to running on bog rolls and pasta. Works a treat and nobody is stockpiling them anymore as they still have attic fulls of the stuff!
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"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Eldest daughter getting married in didcot Saturday, got to travel from Lowestoft on Friday , as of 10 minutes ago all petrol stations fuelless, hope it improves by then!
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
Spoke to the local Tesco delivery driver when he turned up, he told me they have keys to the fuel pumps that allow them to fill the delivery vans. Getting absolute volleys of abuse as they fill.
Unfortunately people hear the word panic and er, panic.
And unfortunately humans by and large are pretty stupid (me being no exception).
The situation is ridiculous, you go from one day where there is no issue (or known issue - blissful ignorance and all that), then someone shoots their mouth off in the media and you have chaos.
not sure it was shooting mouths off they just reported on the continuing issues with deliveries, how people reacted to news that there might be a week or so delay to petrol deliveries has been ridiculous.
not sure it was shooting mouths off they just reported on the continuing issues with deliveries, how people reacted to news that there might be a week or so delay to petrol deliveries has been ridiculous.
Well yeah no one knows about the issues of deliveries until it gets splurged all over media? So why mention it at all?
Petrol queues. (n/t) on 13:41 - Sep 27 by R_from_afar
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Apologies if that upset anyone, that might have been a thoughtless thing to post, sorry.
I posted it simply because when I was in Tesco during the early days of the pandemic, quite a few shelves were empty, including in the beers and spirits aisle, but there was a huge, teetering stack of Corona branded beer, on special offer.
Sincere apologies again. This pandemic is not funny and my wife has, at times, had to work on COVID wards at our local hospital, so the worry for me is a very personal one
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Wonder if the government could put the army in on petrol distribution, tell the likes of mega rich BP they’ll be paying the army £200 an hour per head until they pay enough to employ proper staff, whether then the oil companies might get their act together.
Too many companies getting wealthy on cheap EU labour this century, time for a shake up.
that's kind of their job to report on the news, alternative is too say nothing and leave people completely in the dark
Spot on Dave and if it had not been reported people would be kicking off about suppression of the news
They were still taking about 100 or so petrol stations empty when 3 out of 4 in my area were already closed and remain so, if anything they and other main news outlets have under reported the true scale of the situation.
that's kind of their job to report on the news, alternative is too say nothing and leave people completely in the dark
But it wasn't news. It was a few forecourts out of some 8,000 in the UK.
If it was not 'reported' nothing would have happened and you wouldn't have thousands of cars sitting idle at home with full tanks but loads of people, like a friend of mine who is trying to move home with a rental van, absolutely fukked.
I'm sure stock of all sorts of stuff ebbs & flows all the time, that's just how it goes. It doesn't need to be 'reported' on in every minute detail.
Wonder if the government could put the army in on petrol distribution, tell the likes of mega rich BP they’ll be paying the army £200 an hour per head until they pay enough to employ proper staff, whether then the oil companies might get their act together.
Too many companies getting wealthy on cheap EU labour this century, time for a shake up.
A Conservative government telling companies they need to pay their employees more? I think you'll be waiting a long time for that.
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