Petrol running low

Strider590

Govt attacks media (News international), so in return the media brings country to it's knee's one tabloid reader at a time.....

What makes me laugh is that people are reading these sensationalist news headlines that say "PANIC FUEL SHORTAGE, FILL YOUR CAR NOW!!!!!" and then turning around and blaming the govt :rotfl:

Lum

Well to be fair the government have said pretty much exactly that, and the media have reported as such, with a spin that was entirely predictable.

Yesterday we had a government minister tell people to keep a jerry can in their garage. Today Cameron is telling people not to let their tanks get below a half.

Sure the media will exaggerate and sensationalise but this government know full well that this will happen, they've taken advantage of it often enough to get the media to attack groups they don't like, so these comments were either monumentally stupid or intentional.

So yes I'm blaming the government.

Maybe their plan is altruistic, they want to get a good chunk of the panic buying out of the way now so that if a strike does actually happen, but to be honest I doubt this. Cameron doesn't care about ordinary people. This is all about discrediting the unions and people they associate with (e.g. Labour)

Strider590

^^ The thing with the half tank of fuel, was that most people drive about 1/4 tank at a time, not many people actually fill their car.
They were simply telling us to keep a little more in reserve than we normally would.... But of course the tabloid press twisted this and turned it into mass panic. We had a threat of strikes a few years ago and it turned into nothing, no panic buying, no problems, but for some reason it's been blown out of all proportions this time.

The worst of it is that by the time the strikes happen (if they do), all the panic buyers will be running out of fuel again and the impact will be far greater.

Toomuchdebt

mikey72 wrote: »

It's normally 147.9 locally.
Cheapest is about 144.9, but for 3p a litre that's £1.80, so it makes no odds really.

The price yesterday was 143.9 so it's a big difference

fredandwilma

Lum wrote: »

This!

I'll confess that I took the Cefiro out to fill up last night (en route to Tesco mind) even though it hasn't moved for 3 weeks and was happily sitting there with little more than fumes in the tank as I hadn't gotten around to filling it up yet.

Why? My partner is disabled, but also the main earner in our household, and if her car breaks for any reason (and it is an 18 year old modified car used for a long distance commute) the Cefiro is the only other one she can drive. She can't drive the Mondeo any great distance as it's a manual and thus would cause too much pain.

Fortunately my local Shell hadn't increased the price on V-Power yet and V-Power is always the last tank to run out in a panic-buy scenario anyway.


The previous fuel crisis was never a problem for me, because my car was so old I just filled it up with 4-star, which never ran out.


Not going to rush out and fill up the Mondeo. The tank in that thing lasts me two weeks and it should all be over by then!

You have 3 cars to fill? I guess its a case of panic buying when you've filled all three :rotfl::rotfl:

StephenM_2

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ The thing with the half tank of fuel, was that most people drive about 1/4 tank at a time, not many people actually fill their car.

My normal habit is to fill the car when it drops below a 1/4 tank. I don't see the point in not filling it, since it would mean making more trips to petrol stations.

nifferwilko

johncas1 wrote: »

so why wait or do people just love queues

Of course we love queues - we're British :rotfl:

mikey72

Toomuchdebt wrote: »

The price yesterday was 143.9 so it's a big difference

It's always dearer round here.

But even then, 4p a litre was only £2.48 extra for the 62 litres I put in.

That's 7 miles worth. It's not even worth me shopping around for that.

Strider590

StephenM wrote: »

My normal habit is to fill the car when it drops below a 1/4 tank. I don't see the point in not filling it, since it would mean making more trips to petrol stations.

I've always done the same, largely because I hate petrol stations and the idiots that feel the need to do the weeks shopping before they move their car. It also means I can pick which one I go to (preferably one manned by British nationals or the business owner), thus reducing my chances of being caught out by credit card fraud.

fivetide

If you are doing anything outside your normal pattern you are part of the problem. Simple.

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