50 percent is better than 0

cnr :)

:Suspiciou you're doing exactly the same as all the other panicking fools.. only you, as with them see it as being safe ..

Pathetic really , massive queues already in bucks. Popped into the BP, no queue , filled up and got some groceries. Came back out to find there a large queue already and some strange woman parked behind me. Only happened to be Little Ginge :)

Since they have to give 7 days notice as to the date of the strike which hasnt been done - what is the point buying fuel now? Surely in at minimum a wk everyone will need more anyways.

Moronic people, listening to a moronic govenment I can only assume most of them voted for and the fires fuelled by the BBC who love nothing more than scaremongering.

Actually, a tank lasts me about a month at the moment so that should take me past any industrial action :thumb:

Funny, but I thought it was the unions/drivers who voted to strike? Maybe I misunderstood and it's actually the government, in conjunction with the BBC, who are to blame ... :Suspiciou

Me thinks you need to blame the real culprits here - the unions and drivers. Not saying they haven't got real grievances but it's their proposed actions that are causing all those "moronic people" to queue at the garages!

Dave

The Government have caused this boll0cks and it's a fcuking disgrace. Firstly no dates have been set for any strike action. Secondly there will be a 7 day notice pending any action so at the moment there is absolutely NO excuse to panic buy.

This is disgusting scaremongering:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17545739

They really don't live in the real World do they? Fill up? What at a good £70-£80 for a tank when I budget £20 a week for petrol. Do they really think in this economic climate people can just go out and spend £80 on petrol just like that and this is before any strike action has even been announced? What it is is a huge increase in fuel tax income if they get everyone to fill their tanks at £80 a pop :mad:

I am keeping to my normal routine of when I put petrol in the cars but I bet when I go to the petrol station up the road it will have run out because of all the fcuking muppets who are falling for the Government spin :rolleyes:

Oh and of course then there is the issue of demand and supply. What happens when petrol demand rockets? The fuel companies start putting their prices up so expect a litre to get to over £1.50 in the next couple of weeks.

Just spent £300 on fuel last night, not because I was panic buying, I just needed to. Wife does 500miles a week and mine, just drinks fuel :D. It was very busy a 7pm and and 9.30pm when I went to get fuel :lol1:

Exactly, and we'll all be complaining then. Plus, this isn't really going to help the arguement that fuel is too expensive, and normal people are struggling to fill up, if everyone goes mad and stocks up. It may not be the government that has proposed this strike, but I think they are very much using it to their advantage.

Local Shell's are out of V-Power & diesel (Stourbridge, West Midlands), other garages big queue's, managed to get filled Momentum at Tesco's.

What a situation - rush on fuel, stamps, pasties FFS!

I may have a totter up to Tesco in Cradley at 3:00am and top up like usual, no effing way I'm queuing though (usually have to queue even when there isn't a panic at that place during the daytime as its 2nd cheapest to Sainsbury in Merry Hell).

The BP in Lye had a massive queue, and thats the most expensive petrol station in the area....Haven't a clue why people use it, don't they ever notice its usually a good 5p more expensive than everywhere else (even when there isn't panic buying)? Convinces me this area is full of idiots :cuckoo:

The users of BP must be company fuel card holders who don't give a toss about the price and who are probably doing it for whatever loyalty scheme is on at the time.

Could be, but I've seen what look like housewives and OAPs filling up there too :cuckoo:

They had someone on the tesco forecourt last night to stop arguments breaking out ffs:lol1: people were that panicky about the pumps running dry that people were trying to jump the queue.

Imagine what this country would be like if something serious was going to happen

I just popped to the Shell nr work as I'm down to a 1/4 of a tank. Sign saying no regular diesel and only 4 pumps open for UL and V-power. Everyone is queued up at one pump so I squeeze past dozy bint and drive straight to a pump - result.

Then drove to Subway for lunch which happens to be opposite another Shell garage. And witnessed my first incident of "Fuel Rage". Cars on nearside of road queued up about 12 back. Car coming from other direction pulls up indicating to turn in thus queue jumping. At first he stays there but then realises he is holding the traffic up behind him. Goes to drive past other queue cars but bloke blocks him and shouts "f**k you" out of the window. Guy reversed out with his tail between his legs. Had to chuckle.

Someone found these posted up at his local garage

So they removed one and took it back home / to work just to take a picture of it? How strange.

He was probably the one putting them up.

The BBC this morning was pathetic. Trying to tie Ed Davey down to when people should top up their cars :rolleyes: Like a kids debate. Bill Turnbull should be embarrassed.

Isn't it obvious that it depends how much you drive and how incovenienced you would be by a petrol shortage. If you have to drive to care for an elderly relative then keeping your tank full makes sense. For the average Joe the current situation makes no difference. When really pressed, Ed said "Top-up when the tank is half full." Hardly government advice is it? :mad::mad: I wish people were capable of making their own decisions.

Exactly it would be anarchy.

We used to be a nation regarded as polite and able to queue.

If you go to 3rd world countries nobody will queue, it is just a free-for-all.

That'll be why its a 3rd world country :luvlove:

Just been on the local news that the price of petrol and diesel at the garages monitored have crept up a couple of pence a litre over the last 2 days.............

Shaun

The people making those decisions should be fired, what a pathetic thing to do to an already struggling nation ..

Strange thing I noticed at Shell was a handwritten sign at the entrance saying no diesel when there was v-power diesel. Sign makes it sound like they don’t have diesel period.

Wish my misses had a diesel period, it would save me thousands.

Just went passed Shell in Porthmadog. They had a hand writen sign on all pumps with "Max £20" on them :lol1:

Errr Cradley, Lye, no convincing needed :D They can't even speak normally :)

Thing is, very few people actually ever fill their car up. Whent he lorry drivers did their blockade years ago the problem was the same as now. People who would normally put in £20 putting in £50 and more.

With each car having more than double the juice in, that's why they are running out.

It only goes to show how daft the nation in general is and its brilliant to see those on here who have done it makign out like they aren't the same as all these other sheep! I'm sure everyone in those queues is also sayign "i'm not panic buying, i'm just beign prepared by grabbing as much as a i possibly can."

5t.

I do. 9 times out of 10 it'll be on fumes when I fill up - and always to the brim. Just under half full at the moment so got plenty left and will fill up when I can. Passed the garage about 3 times today (was there anyway) but couldn't be ar5ed to queue. The queue was more than normal at that garage but not any worse than I've seen in the summer when the emmetts are about .... :D

I'd say one of the reasons that people are filling up is that their kids break up for Easter tomorrow and they've arranged trips out/going away/etc so don't want to disappoint them.

Dave