God damn stupid petrol panic buying retards!

Woolley · Post by **Woolley** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:24 pm

As I left work today the fuel bar started flashing. So I drove home and thought I'd get some petrol from one of the stations near my house. Nope. All dry. People need to stop being so god damn retarded and stop drying out all the petrol stations. I'm gonna have to use my car tomorrow to get to work now cus I don't have enough petrol to get there on my bike and I don't know if any of the pumps near me will have any fuel left. Good job my cars a diesel and i can get 500 miles out of a tank. Is it like this for everyone else in the UK? I'm driving to Cardiff on 19th April (in the car), hope I can actually get fuel to get back home when I'm there.

edscoot · Post by **edscoot** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:53 pm

I'm down to one bar and it won't be long before it starts flashing. I'm worried that if I go hunting for petrol there won't be any left at the stations and I won't have enough to get home

What a bunch of tits. Even if there was going to be a strike (which there isn't, at least until after Easter), there would be 7 days notice.

nich · Post by **nich** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:23 pm

I was out on my mod2 today (passed woot!), and we always have to stop to fill up the tank.

Bunch of idiots, several stations out of fuel, tons of queuing, people with the jerrycans grabbing every bit they can.

I mean, come on, I'm in London myself and most people don't even need a car to get around!

Doesn't really cause me problems as I cycle to work/shops, but still, what a pain in the ass.

TC3 · Post by **TC3** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:36 pm

Filled both car and bike yesterday without much trouble. With the thick government we have fuelling (pun intended) the panic I thought it best I fill both up. Did I panic buy? Nope just being smart with some fore sight of what was about to happen. If I am an idiot for doing that....fine but I got a full car and bike now :-)

nich · Post by **nich** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:43 pm

Well, it seems like no strike around easter.

Panic over

Teamtd11 · Post by **Teamtd11** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:47 pm

I filled up a couple of days ago before all this happened. Still half a tank left so should be good for a week of getting to work and back.

Worst part is there is no confirmation of the strikes going ahead. Its a big issue with a 6L tank and people draining stations dry. But i guess to someone filling up there thought pattern is 'Something about fuel!? Must panic! How will my child get to school 2 miles away without my huge 4X4 box to protect him/her'

gn2 · Post by **gn2** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:29 pm

Given that the average man in the street supposedly doesn't believe a word said by a politician, it's amazing that this happened.

Woolley · Post by **Woolley** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:38 pm

Maybe it's a ploy by the government to quickly make a massive amount of money

Woolley · Post by **Woolley** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:57 pm

Oh yeah, just got back from picking girlfriend up, drove past tesco on the way home. Surprise surprise sold out. This sucks balls.

Esdain · Post by **Esdain** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:38 am

i am begining to worry a wee bit, work today is fine, plenty of fuel but work tomorrow, hmmm gonna be interesting

edscoot · Post by **edscoot** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:08 am

edscoot wrote:I'm down to one bar and it won't be long before it starts flashing. I'm worried that if I go hunting for petrol there won't be any left at the stations and I won't have enough to get home What a bunch of tits. Even if there was going to be a strike (which there isn't, at least until after Easter), there would be 7 days notice.

Went out last night to fill up and sure enough the last bar started blinking as soon as I left home. The Shell station was sold out, Queing at Morrisons, Asda (the cheapest) was sold out. I used the next station I found, BP or something, and very expensive - 144.9p per litre!

I've been thinking of going on a long holiday on the scoot and wondered if anybody has any advice on a 1 or 2 litre scooter friendly spare fuel bottle/can? Useful in this situation as well.

duive01 · Post by **duive01** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:13 am

What's going on there than? A strike or something?
I have never been to a gas station which was sold out!

gn2 · Post by **gn2** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:22 am

Tanker drivers voted for strike action, but no strike has yet been announced.
The whole mess has been created by a thoroughly incompetent Prime Minister who said people should top up their tanks and maybe keep some spare fuel stored in their shed.
Hey presto: fuel shortage.

Taz · Post by **Taz** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:00 pm

Now I know what you are talking about as its just made the news here in Oz along with the proposed tax on cornish pasties! Im off to the UK in just over a weeks time for a 2 week biz trip and have hired a cage as will be doing a lot of driving. Hope its sorted by then, especially the pasties

Woolley · Post by **Woolley** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:39 pm

Yeah I didn't hear about that until I signed a petition in Gregg's

haildamage · Post by **haildamage** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:16 pm

edscoot wrote:
edscoot wrote:I'm down to one bar and it won't be long before it starts flashing. I'm worried that if I go hunting for petrol there won't be any left at the stations and I won't have enough to get home What a bunch of tits. Even if there was going to be a strike (which there isn't, at least until after Easter), there would be 7 days notice.
I've been thinking of going on a long holiday on the scoot and wondered if anybody has any advice on a 1 or 2 litre scooter friendly spare fuel bottle/can? Useful in this situation as well.

you could get some camping fuel bottles at your local high end camping store.

i always try to keep plenty of fuel on hand in case of a natural disaster. i have several bikes so i shuffle fuel around between them to make sure it stays fresh. once in awhile i drain the fuel from my offroad bike and put it in my PCX before the gas gets too old. then i refill the dirt bike tank as a way to store extra gas.

in addition, here in japan we learned that it is a good idea to have a relationship with your neighborhood gas station when the shit hits the fan after the big march 11 disaster last year. there were fuel shortages and many gas stations would only sell to regular customers or were rationing except for regular customers!

ese12105 · Post by **ese12105** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:56 pm

Man crazy stuff guys. Never seen a gas station sold out here in the US, but I've ears of it happening years ago before I was born. Good luck guys. What a pain in the butt!

maddiedog · Post by **maddiedog** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:51 am

We had a gas shortage here in the Southeast US in 2008. I had people offering me thousands for the scooter I was driving at the time. Lines (er, queues for you Brits) were miles long where there was gas. It was insane.

Similar reason as the UK too, our panic and "shortage" was caused by people theorizing that damage from a hurricane was going to cause a shortage... Theorizing about a shortage caused one. Thanks, politics.

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