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"Should you panic buy fuel? A true prisoner's dilemma" blog discussion

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  • propertyman
    propertyman Posts: 2,922 Forumite
    For all the criticism the government getting I thought it on balance got everyone prepared for a potential strike and stole a march on the unions.

    Any passing moaning about the government will fade quickly in the light of the resentment that the motoring public will show for the unions.

    The 1970's were 40 years ago and the sooner the militant left wing unions learn that the better for all of us.
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  • JezR
    JezR Posts: 1,698 Forumite
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    The first unusually long queue at a petrol station I saw was over a week ago, ie a couple of days at least before Francis 'jerry-can' Maude.
  • aldredd
    aldredd Posts: 925 Forumite
    regarding the tweet about the ambulance...
    I was a manager at a busy petrol station during the last round of major panic buying (around 2004 iirc).

    Once we were running low, we closed, keeping a bit of petrol & diesel in the tanks reserved for staff and emergency services. Pretty common sense for any petrol station I'd have thought!
  • Peanuckle
    Peanuckle Posts: 481 Forumite
    I got stuck in a queue at the petrol station at a local supermarket last week, the delay? It was a driver who had started fuelling (they are all "pay at pump" with a £5 min.) and only managed to squeeze £2.65 into the car before it was too full for any more!!

    Eventually they were persuaded to pull forward and the next person put enough in their car to make it up to the £5 and gave them a couple of pound coins. Just how stupid can people get?

    I had to top up our car (the red light was already blinking) as I drive my husband across the city to his yard and then return home, with 2 children and myself with serious illnesses I can't afford not to have enough fuel for a hospital trip. Hubby rang from work to say he was having a hard job finding anywhere with diesel to fill the lorry, if this continues then it's more than fuel that will be in shortage. How long before Joe Public works it out and starts panic buying food in preparation for when lorries no longer have the fuel to deliver shop stock?
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