Have you been panic buying?

System

These days you need to stock up with anything you normally buy the moment you get a hint of a shortage.

Here's a tip: Morrisons in Aberystwyth have sold out of Parmesan cheese.

But you could see that coming as the Euro crisis mounted - Italians always hoard Parmesan in bad times.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Rupert_Bear wrote: »

We have half a tank of diesel, one byke, a pair of legs and a bus pass

We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Hit it. :cool:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa_jqxnn4o

RUN_RABBIT_RUN

i've been putting it on my cornflakes and the wife has been drinking the stuff.

also filled up the storage tank so we can shower in it tonight, happy days :beer:

rartherinv

My mate Paddy has been panic buying diesel. So far he has 4 pairs of jeans 8 shirts and 6 bottles of aftershave...

pqrdef

frosty wrote: »

Very glad the goverment didnt advise people to stock up on food in case the delivery vans couldnt get fuel,it would be chaos at the supermarkets with all the shelves being stripped bare.

If you want to see chaos in supermarkets, start a rumour that toilet paper deliveries might not get through.


Seriously though, Maude's advice would have been excellent, if the government had arranged for extra deliveries to forecourts in the days before the strike, assuming adequate stockpiles at refineries.

But they couldn't improve the throughput of the system, because the tanker capacity for the extra deliveries doesn't exist. So they couldn't get enough petrol out for everybody to stockpile. All that could happen was that some people would stockpile at the expense of others who would then run short.

In that sort of situation, the traditional response of the fair-minded is rationing. A supermarket faced with a run on toilet paper, instead of allowing the greediest to fill their boots, might impose a limit of 6 rolls per person, to ensure that everybody can keep going.

So the government does the exact opposite. Instead of trying to regulate the situation in the interests of all, they go out of their way to encourage the selfishness of the greedy.

Well it shines a beam of light into the Tory mind.

pqrdef

AMG762 wrote: »

And i now have enough fuel to take the children out this weekend

Well that's really high on the nation's priorities in a crisis. No possibility that other people's needs might be greater than yours then.

MoneySaverLog

Quick get them in....

AMG762

pqrdef wrote: »

Well that's really high on the nation's priorities in a crisis. No possibility that other people's needs might be greater than yours then.

There is no crisis.

I would have bought this fuel Saturday anyway.

Only a couple of days early as i could see they would run out.

It would be more fair complaining about the panic buyers filling the car up and fuel containers

J_i_m

mothershipton wrote: »

havent been panic buying but did need to fill up. Felt like i should have a sign saying, I acutally need petrol in my car!!

Broadly my sentiments. I got caught out by the idiocy as I've been commuting on the fuel light until pay day... Only to then find that most fuel stations have run out of fuel thanks to either people's naiveness, simpleness or downright selfishness.

It wouldn't have been a very clever situation on my part to run dry and have the need to re-bleed the fuel system on my diesel.

Luckily last night on the 5th station I tried, I managed to find somewhere with some diesel and filled up.. And since the prices have surged again in the last couple of months it was the most I've ever spent on fuel. I've been driving for about 10 ten years now and in that time the price for a litre of fuel has doubled.

Still.. Good luck to the tankers with any strike, it's not their fault that people are stupid and I'm sorted now for the next few weeks.. As I tend to get 5-6 weeks out of a tank

kabayiri

What's worse?

Panic buying, or

Panic running out (in a neighbourhood you don't know)