Petrol running low

Notmyrealname

I'll fill up on Monday on my way home from buying stock when my tank will be nearly dry. Shouldn't find much of a queue by the sounds of it

Premier_2

Off to the supermarket myself now.

I hear bread and milk are selling out fast as fears the hauliers fuel supplies are drying up already.

Maybe get several tinned products in too so we don't all starve? Never know how long this is going to last, but seems like at least until after Easter by the reports...

Jennifer_Jane

spadoosh wrote: »

I didnt think the strike was planned for another couple of weeks. People are as'ses! Theyll fill up and probably run out exactly when the fuel strike is on, 'dud if only i'd filled up sooner'

And why are we expecting it to be a crisis. The army are taking over, the last time they did this they put the fire brigade to shame!!

And Jennifer_Jane, now youre back from the petrol station how is it pragmatic? You ever think about all the vehicles that need to fuel everyday that will struggle because you car is half full. Haulage companies will suffer, tradesmen will suffer, ambulances, fire engines, police patrol cars, taxis, all will suffer because you feel the need to have half a tank of fuel doing nothing. I refer you back to the original post of 'selfish, mindless, idiocy'.

This is what nearly killed (did kinda kill) northern rock

You are contradicting yourself. If there is no crisis, then what's the problem? My half-tank of petrol would not normally be doing 'nothing', I would be using my car to live my life, which is what I'm entitled to, and which is none of your business. If all the emergency or trade vehicles cannot get petrol, then the Government should be rationing it, or getting emergency supplies to them. Do these vehicles use petrol or diesel - or LPG as taxi friends of mine do?

I have been pragmatic and, indeed, prudent, by filling my tank up perfectly legally and at a very high price (and indeed not in any different way from what I would normally be doing. I didn't know there would not be petrol at my local petrol station), and by not using my car except for extraordinary journeys (ie picking my OH up from the station when he's here for Easter), I will be helping the country's petrol supplies by reducing consumption. I've got mine in early and expensively, and more will be delivered to the pumps before the strike goes ahead (IF it goes ahead). There's been plenty of warning.

What amount should I have filled up my car by, in your glorious and noble opinion? I needed petrol this week, I got it. If everyone is filling up by - what - £5 worth; £10 (as we had to do 12 years ago) - there certainly will be queues at petrol stations.

I'm now done and dusted for a week or two. When my car is half-full, I will search again for a petrol station and keep it topped up at your levels, but as an old(ish) woman, the last thing I want to be is running out of petrol on the road (as did happen to people in 2000 - and as almost happened to me on the road waiting in the queue for the petrol forecourt.

I clearly did not start the panic, otherwise there would have been petrol when I went to the local petrol station, but certainly I'm filling up, and if emergency services don't have stocks to get them through, then they are clearly guilty of appalling bad planning.

Mindless - no, dear, pragmatic and prudent.

Rolandtheroadie

Filled the bike up yesterday and when the wife gets home today, I'll get her car filled up to the brim.

Lum

Doesn't seem to be too bad around here. Filled up yesterday because I was down to zero miles on the range readout and I'd already used my 5 litre can*, there wasn't even a queue at the Shell in Newport. They had a bloke in a hi-viz out marshalling people to free pumps though.

This was about 4PM. I suspect it probably got silly after 5.

Cost over a hundred quid to fill up too!

* I have a company fuel card and they deduct private fuel from my salary. The cut-off date is the 28th, so if I could have gotten another day out of that fuel, I'd get an extra month before I had to actually pay for it, so believe me I really did not want to be filling up yesterday. I'm sure that I still looked like a panic buying plonker, however.

vax2002

Wish I could afford to fill the tank up...

Sgt_Pepper_2

vax2002 wrote: »

Wish I could afford to fill the tank up...

So you're one of these people who put £2 and buy 20 fags at the same time

YORKSHIRELASS

I will be filling the car up when I go out this afternoon. I live in a rural village where there is no public transport and no shops. I really rely on my car especially as I have a disabled son who has three hospital appointments next week and one of those appointments is 50 miles away.

I have to say that I am quite worried about the situation at the moment.

Lum

vax2002 wrote: »

Wish I could afford to fill the tank up...

With it coming out of my salary monthly, it's more cost effective to fill up to the brim every time, due to the detour needed to actually get to a petrol station.

Full tank lasts me around two weeks.


Still silly though. I remember about 10 years back, my dad bought an old 4.2 litre Jag for cheap, and it cost £100 to fill up the massive fuel tank on that thing. He then went on to drive it at 40mph everywhere as it was the only speed that you could get double digit MPG. These days it costs the same money just to fill up a sodding Mondeo.

BargainGalore

I do need some fuel I am almost running empty, hopefully there is no shortage where I am.