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The local Tesco last night was refusing to allow people to fill jerry cans. Could be a nuisance if you've got a petrol driven lawnmower.

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Nah, cracking excuse to let the bloody grass grow IMHO

I guess it isn't helping that there are so few petrol stations these days. Roughly 50% of the petrol stations around where I live and my route to work have closed in the past few years.

20 litre minimum is an arse!

My other half's MX5 only takes about 30 litres in total, so we'd have to run it very low to be "allowed" to fill it up! If bikes are allowed less, so should MX5's.

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Panic a go go down here in bridgend!!!!

got a trip to tamworth via rugby tomorow then back to south wales thursday. car does 320 on a tank at very best.

But its all part of the fun isn't it? you can't support the protests without seeing the panic buying as part of the overall effect.

Still going strong is it? Wife (works in Bridgend) said things were bad yesterday, and they were 5-8 deep at my local co-op at 10pm last night - In Tafs Well a small garage is ,according to collegue, now selling unleaded at £1.10, there was no queue there apparantly

Ouch!....I get 440 out of the MG ZT,

A lot of people are saying that if they can't get to work..."too bad". A lot different from last time.

Lets see what provision the government make for the emergency services, but I suspect they will do nothing and just blaim the protestors for killing babies and old folk or some such cobblers.

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I think Blair is away at the moment, Brown seems to be copping the flack....come to think of it do you reckon blair is one of the protestors?

I am waiting for Fat B*stard and bully boy scum Prescot to chirp up.

Or maybe he still has his foot in his mouth from his stupid Katrina statement.

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I think there's plenty of room in his mouth for both his feet.

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Managed to fill my van up today without too much fuss, just one person filling in front of me then my turn. Was quite lucky I guess, most filling stations I passed were queing on the forecort 3/4 deep and often on to the road. The supermarkets were the worse - all to save that 1 or 2p per litre! ASDA in Burnley were back out onto the roundabout and they were marshelling people at Tescos in Blackburn.

Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, the leader of the protests was saying they were definately not blockading.

Yes and it'll be interesting if the Police start cracking heads as well. I hope they (the Police) don't have to. After all, they have to pay for petrol like everyone else. With the language that Police hierarchy have been using lately, i'm somewhat concerned whether senior Police Officers actually serve the public or whether their there for the personal gratification and use of Blair.

Panic buying of fuel is a sobering reminder of just how delicately balanced western economies really are. Just the idea that there may be petrol shortages is sending people into a frenzy desperate to fill up so they can continue with their car dependent lives. What if we were to face a real crisis that saw food vanishing from supermarket shelves?
Still, I suppose its difficult to be too critical, particularly when you consider that during the protests in 2000 many employers faced with their own problems, adopted an uncompromising stance i.e. get to work or lose a days pay or holiday!
Mind you, take a look at the BBC Have Your Saycomment forum today. How many of those people went out to do their regular fill up and were confronted by panic buyers or people in their village who don't really need to use their cars but still panic bought nonetheless? Just to set the record straight we are of course to believe that they personally were not panic buying or that they really do need to use their car where other people don't. Umm, isn't that what everyone is thinking???

Yes indeed, we seem to be living a 'just-in-time' lifestyle and I'm definatlely guilty of that. I don't carry much cash as there is a cash machine that's only 5 minuites walk from home. No need to plan ahead for food - two supermarkets open 24 hours that are only a 5-10 minute drive away, or a delivery service is available.

It's only when something like a petrol shortage or severe weather occurss that we realise how ill-prepared we are.

A century ago a shortage of oats would have had much the same effect.



If the lorries stop running due to lack of fuel, there will be

Cheers
Peter

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Wildy should post one this - she once lived on both Moscow and Leipzig under Communist rule. From what she says - humans are conditioned to join a queue...I vaguely remember as a kid some kind of sugar shortage and people stockpiled .. I am sure I remember customers being rationed to one bag and people shopping together to purchase a non essential like sugar/


Have I filled up? We fill up when we are on qurter tank - bit we are both classified as "priority" - so like last time ... we get to fill up!

Fool's game to panic buy petrol though. I agree that duty and tax could be reduced and given the obscene profits by petrol comapnies - they could sustain a lower price to ease through the crisis caused by Katrina.

I also agree that these higher prices will damage the economy - and this view is shared by bnaks, Institute of Directors, CBI and other financial houses per Radio 4's business news,

Thus Brown shoud reduce duty and oil companies take a short term drop in profits to allow economy to sustain a break even at least and prevent a bust scenario.

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I strongly suspect the oil compnies and petrol retailers are going to be laughing all the way to the bank over this. Queues to buy fuel at grossly inflated prices then of course no sales for a few days whilst they replenish their tanks and bank all the loot.

Prices will then tumble and Gordon can increase tax.

Nah, this is very much a modern phenomenon, remember, there is no actual shortage its just an imaginary one fuelled (pardon the pun) by the media. A century ago folks would have been blissfully ignorant of a national shortage of anything until it was too late. Furthermore, they were more self-sufficient, certainly as communities anyway, today people are totally dependent upon commoditioes produced for them not by them. Many people today would be completely screwed if Asda ran out of microwave ready meals



Yeah, I was going to put that in but didn't bother in the end.

IIRC this did actually happen the last time we had the fuel protests, the supermarket shelves got pretty bare because they weren't getting the usual deliveries and people were panic buying food.