Petrol queues reported now on BBC news

GrannyGravy13

I hope you are not referring to me MaizieD cannot remember last time I purchased or read any newspaper.

I have been referring to the original BBC coverage of this item. Which appears to have been picked up by all and sundry and become a self fulfilling prophecy.

You're not the only person posting on this thread, GG13

It is quiet where I live- every garage has closed down.

I hope you are not referring to me MaizieD cannot remember last time I purchased or read any newspaper.

I have been referring to the original BBC coverage of this item. Which appears to have been picked up by all and sundry and become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Clevedon

If the newspapers didn't blow everything out of proportion it would help!

If the idiots in the population (which appear to be in a majority) didn't put 2 and 2 together to make 40 it would also help.

I'm finding it quite amusing that many posters who utterly denied that the paper they read had any influence on their , say, vote to leave the EU, are now screaming about the media leading the panic. Are the media influential or are they not?

If the newspapers didn't blow everything out of proportion it would help!

The visas run out on Christmas Eve anyway. I will be interested to see how many bother….

One of the paramedics I work with had a disagreement with her 82 year old Mother yesterday when she was told that her Mother had popped out to fill her car up ‘just in case’. As my colleague said, she only drives about 10 miles a week and never goes below half a tank. ?
Last night we had ambulances off the road as they can’t find fuel and only a couple of the older ambulance stations have fuel bunkers.Things are desperate enough at the moment with long waits for ambulances without adding in no fuel.
I came home at 11pm and there was a queue outside our local petrol station who were in the process of having a delivery.
Perhaps we should go back to the wartime slogan ‘Is your journey really necessary?’

Of course none of these fine citizens causing gridlock at my nearest petrol station had in any way been influenced by press reports. No they were all just filling up in the normal way. And every last one of them had an urgent and totally justified need not to have their fuel needle move anywhere near the half a tank mark!

Even though the government is now going to issue visas to foreign HGV drivers, it won't make much difference for a while, at least. They have to decide to come, apply for a visa, find a job and somewhere to live and get themselves over here. As they will be short term visas many drivers won't want to give up a steady, though lesser paid job in their own country for a temporary one in the U.K. even if the pay is better. I can't see the situation improving much.
We need to find a way to encourage people to take on these rather unattractive jobs, make it cheaper to qualify, and speed up the process somehow.

3nanny6. So you don't agree with panic buying, but are glad that you stocked up with enough food to last you until February? ?

A 30 min journey on Friday took nearly 2 hours due to idiots blocking the roads trying to get into garages to panic buy. On my return journey no holdups, every garage with a sign ‘ no fuel’ . I despair of the mentality of a lot of people!!!

PS.Your apology for being so dismissive will be graciously accepted.

If you bothered to read, really read, other people's posts you'd have seen I didn't deny there was a localised problem. Queues throughout the country are because the situation has been escalated by sensationalist reporting, which claimed there was a FUEL SHORTAGE. No there isn't, although now because so many rushed to the forecourts to make sure their nowhere near empty tanks were filled to overbrimming, and some even filled several jerry cans on top, there are people who do NEED fuel who won't be able to get it. There has been a delivery problem to some areas, it will now be worsened by the countrywide topping up. I wonder why you think there are suddenly areas of gridlock around petrol stations? Must have happened by telepathy because it wasn't even a tiny bit media driven ? Hope my midwife niece's home deliveries don't mind the long delays of her getting to them by public transport.

I find your post condescending and belligerent, but shan't ask for or expect any apology.

BP have made the petrol problem!
I think there is something else behind this with BP?
It's know there is a shortage of drivers.
400k HGV drivers needed in Europe, including Germany, Italy, Poland Sweden and Denmark. Now USA have a Truck driver issue as well.
This problem has been exacerbated by the idiot press and those desperate to make sure they have a full tank of petrol.

The media love to create panic buying if they did not constantly stir the pot.People would have just bought there normal amount instead of buying to much and filling petrol cans,there would have been enough to go round.Same idiots that caused a tiolet roll shortage at the beginning of covid.

I’m fortunate as I mostly travel locally, so being on the red, put £30 in early Friday morning, why would I fill the tank.
If garages limit purchases to £20/30 there are those who don’t need a full tank, but will still visit another garage for more with the other lemmings.
The media totally hyped this, our local radio station Thursday evening ‘we are getting reports of a fuel shortage and queues are forming at local garages’ ffs.

MaggsMcG

There is NO petrol shortage and NO shortage of trained tanker drivers. There was a delayed delivery for a very few petrol stations and the media hyped it all up. As usual, just like they did with the toilet rolls and other things in March 2020. It was panic buying and hoarding that caused it.

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It certainly was.

Alegrias1

Ooh look, here's another one.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58678131

When the RHA, the AA and the Scottish Government say the same as the UK government, you have to be quite hard pushed to think its a conspiracy.

Yes, exactly so. It doesn’t matter how many times it has been said that it was BP experiencing some supply problems ( to only some of their garages) and the media going OTT,
In the rush to constantly blame the government for everything bar the weather, some posters are making their comments appear very silly.

I have t go to Yorkshire on Monday to help my Mum move down south to be nearer me - I went to my nearest town (Hungerford) at 6.45pm this evening and they have run out of diesel completely and only have Super Unleaded left at £1.49/l, so that had to do, cost me a fortune but did manage to fill up which I was getting increasingly worried about!!

There is NO petrol shortage and NO shortage of trained tanker drivers. There was a delayed delivery for a very few petrol stations and the media hyped it all up. As usual, just like they did with the toilet rolls and other things in March 2020. It was panic buying and hoarding that caused it.

Copied from Facebook, but probably got as much truth as any other.
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Petrol tanker drivers have an ADR qualification as well as a HGV licence. They need this for them to drive petrol tanker lorries.
There is a shortage of HGV drivers. That's a true fact.
However HGV drivers cannot drive a petrol Tanker lorry without having an ADR qualification.
The UK had ADR drivers last week. NOTHING repeat NOTHING changed much in a week. Maybe some holiday or some sickness but not, I doubt a dramatic change.
The ADR drivers that were driving last week are still driving this week delivering fuel. So nothing has changed.
The petrol panic we are now experiencing is all down too media hype.
It's not because of brexit because all the EU drivers went back to Europe. Which is some of the reasons being banded about.
These EU HGV driver's, left months ago, and yet the country was still getting fuel without problems up until today.
So what's changed? Nothing !!
Apart from the disgraceful media hype and scaremongering to make news. Too sensationalise the fact that a couple of petrol stations were getting a late delivery so they closed.
The Result of the media scaremongering!!
Massive panic and chaos by everyone. Which is now causing a shortage of fuel until the ADR drivers, that we already had delivering fuel a few days ago, can deliver again.
The media should be fined and penalised, severely for publicising false news and creating the crazy situation that has been going on all today. Disgusting. They should hold their heads in shame.
And to top it the government have 1000’s of trained military personnel who are available if there was a real fuel crisis. Bloody Media!! Bloody sheep, bloody selfish mentality.

Alegrias1

I'm out.

It's like trying to reason with three year olds.

I think I am now, night night

growstuff you do make me laugh, I have lived in my house for 33 years, the petrol station is in my road and this is the first time there have been queues blocking the road necessitating the police to control the traffic.

I'm out.

It's like trying to reason with three year olds.

There are too many cars on the roads anyway and the climate could do with a rest. Every cloud and all that……

GrannyGravy13

We live in what I suppose could be called a commuter village not big enough to be a town. Petrol station had queues yesterday a delivery first thing and hey ho more queuing. I have had a home/base here for 50 years never seen panic like it, I am bloody furious at these greedy selfish people.

The Tesco’s on the A road had a delivery at midnight, it was put on local Facebook page and by 1 am the queues blocked the road.

Absolutely ridiculous, I agree with Alegrias1 this panic buying frenzy is 100% media driven. I am asking myself what is their hidden agenda ?

Did you interview all of them and issue a truth drug to find out which ones didn't need to buy fuel?

(Sigh) Another one who doesn't seem to accept that the "panic buying" isn't 100% media driven.

PS. It's not difficult. The hidden agenda is that people want to get to work on time or use their vehicle for work or ...