I Think The Petrol Queues Are Subsiding.......

[ToraToraTora]

err indoors has just driven by several with no queue, one garage is rationing it to £30 per customer but there was no queue. I think all the panick buyers have now filled up everything they have. I saw some nobedski with about 6 petrol cans yesterday! PMSL

[Mamyalynne]

Piggy, someone with no cot to lie on who is saving for a holiday in the Alps.

[Barmaid]

It's still mad here. I nipped out earlier and they are still queuing like idiots at Tescos.

[sp1814]

bhg481

You mean in jerry cans right?

I think alot of people would back you up on that because carrying cans of petrol in a non-emergency is dangerous.

But let's be honest - the term 'panic-buying' is being used incorrectly here.

What I see are queue of people in their cars buying petrol.

That's not necessarily panic-buying.

People who use that term need to remember that picture they see on the news don't tell the whole story.

[bhg481]

Many years ago just before Christmas there was a supply problem with petrol, I can't remember why. My in-laws had come down for the holiday, my mum was in hospital with dementia and dad was staying at their home 250 miles away, so I had no need to use the car and was happy for it to be nearly empty. Then I got a phone call from my uncle saying dad had died of a heart attack and I needed to go north. The search for fuel was rather stressful and now I tend to keep a full tank.

[jackthehat]

No queues at the petrol stations round here, either..........but that's because they have no fuel.
Drove around Blackpool earlier in search of diesel to no avail so had to forgo lunch over at my cousins on the grounds that we weren't sure whether we could get there and back on what we have in the tank. :o(

[naomi24]

SP, if this wasn’t panic buying we would see it every day.

[bhg481]

sp - I was referring to TTT's comment that someone had about 6 petrol cans they were filling. There were also pictures in the Daily Mail of people filling plastic 5 litre bottles; that is illegal in itself without the volume limit for approved containers.

[rockyracoon]

It's tailing off round here as well. I think there must be a surplus of drivers locally as our local BP garage ran out of fuel on Friday night, had a delivery yesterday morning at 10am, and has had a delivery today.

Hopefully, this will see the end of this ridiculous nonsense.

[rockyracoon]

Yesterday, my husband saw a chap try to fill up a wheelie bin!

[youngmafbog]

//What I see are queue of people in their cars buying petrol.//

Well yes but then the same could be said of the Bog Roll brigade. Some will be the normal people, my SiL had to queue yesterday - his van was running on fumes but he siad the main problem was punters filling up the doing their weekly shop and not moving the car.

There are without doubt panic buyers and that down to the Government saying dont panic buy. Clowns, what did they think would happen?

[gingejbee]

I agree with sp...the term "panic-buying" is absurdly overused.
Anyway, one person's "panic-buying" is another's "careful planning ahead".

[Patsy33]

Not long come back from our local Tescos. As we drove past,the queues were manic! Lunacy...

[youngmafbog]

Oh and there were not queues round here from about yesterday afternoon. My daughter went out to get a couple of gallons to get to work and went straight through.

[youngmafbog]

//Whats a nobedski ? is it someone from your little corner? lol//

Oh dont we think we are the smart one, lets all have a dig at TTT, snigger.

nobedski = ***. I would have thought that was obvious to any simpleton.

[gingejbee]

Patsy...how is a queue "manic"? Did you mean "long"?

[Gromit]

Local garage shut today. Not sure if it has run out of petrol, or Covid. We seem to be in a bit of an hotspot.

[david small]

Needed petrol today. Garages all had queues. So I didn’t bother. Silly times. If people just behaved normally this would not be so restrictive.

[rockyracoon]

'There are without doubt panic buyers and that down to the Government saying dont panic buy. Clowns, what did they think would happen?'

I think the media started it first on Friday morning, by saying 7 or so stations had to close due to non delivery. 7 or so out of God knows how many!!! Then the government said 'don't panic'....so the public did what it does best....

[teacake44]

Its enough to make you start seeing pink elephants really.

[Patsy33]

Gingebee, yes long. It's not a very big petrol station but cars were packed tight behind each other, almost in the way of other cars trying to get around them, as they left the store. It just looked pathetic, insane...