Petrol queues reported now on BBC news

Sorry forgot to highlight, first two paragraphs are quotes.

Don’t panic!

I expect everyone knows this but it might be worth posting it:

If you have to go on a journey then around 55mph is the optimum speed for fuel efficiency (traffic and speed limits permitting of course).

I remember having to go on a long but essential return journey about 20 years ago when there was a fuel strike and driving at that speed on the motorway, hoping I'd have enough fuel to get all the way home again.
I did make it home. There wasn't much traffic on the motorways either!

Just back from my dentist in a nearby town fuel getting a bit low so I stopped expecting a queue a couple of cars in whole petrol station only allowed £35 but result
Just have to fill our other car up now it's been in a long trip and getting low will need a full tank fir next trip so might have to do that in stages as its around £90 for a full tank !

The foreign press are having a field day blaming Johnson and Brexit for all the ills in the country, and not just European press. CNN has a long article outlining everything that is going wrong and the reasons.

We are served very ill by our press.

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The foreign press are having a field day blaming Johnson and Brexit for all the ills in the country, and not just European press. CNN has a long article outlining everything that is going wrong and the reasons.

We are served very ill by our press.

Of course the foreign press are having a field day with us, takes the heat off their own problems at home. Personally think the haulage companies also have much to answer for over the last 10 /15 years.

Lincslass tend to agree with you

Calli we lived in Newcastle-u-Lyme then and had to pick up an Italian niece from Heathrow. Her dad phoned in the morning to say he had made a mistake, she had to be picked up from Gatwick! We had to call BIL in South London to arrange to syphon petrol from him and neighbours so we could get back home! Oh the stress of it all.

Kali2 I had to get DD2 and friend to an airport and due to a mix up with the tickets it was not a local airport, it was Birmingham.

Have driven past our two local filling stations (one in our road, and one a bit off track ) just now, no queues, both fully open.

Callistemon

Kali2 I had to get DD2 and friend to an airport and due to a mix up with the tickets it was not a local airport, it was Birmingham.

I once drove to East Midlands to pick up D3 and her friends after a girlie holiday in somewhere like Magaluf (?) only to get a phone call from home to say did I realise EMA was NOT the same as Birmingham ?
Massive dash down the A whatever without benefit of SatNav in those days.
I still go cold when I remember it!

I'd never been to Birmingham Airport before!
And, no satnav!
I remember going with a friend to pick up our respective DC from a gap year trip - he was late and then drove extremely slowly all the way to Heathrow and they were waiting very patiently with their huge backpacks. They had managed to get there on time, despite missing a flight from Borneo or some farflung place.

Sorry I couldn’t resist posting this.

Love it!

Forgive me if somebody has posted this one already

Like it MayBeMaw ???

Bluddy brilliant MayBeMore! ✅?

Maw even. ?

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It isn’t get any better is it?

I still haven’t got petrol.

My sister is hoping to come over in a few days time for her birthday meal. Meanwhile she is walking everywhere because she can’t use the petrol in her car to use for her birthday dinner.

Where is Johnson! ????

Is this a north/south divide problem? We have had clear petrol stations for days. Just drive in, fill up, adios. They've just mentioned this on Jeremy Vine.

Young friends has just left to drive over to UK to see her dad, widowed recently, and his mum, recently diagnosed with terminal stage cancer. They will fill up before crossing Channel and keep travelling to minimum, but with 2 young children in tow, the worries about petrol are really making the stress so much more acute.

According to the Daily Mail, it is worse in the South Zoejory.

I still haven't managed to get petrol either WW2 still queues, still panic buying, still lots of angry people

We have a Shell filling station in our road, it has had petrol with no closures/queues since Tuesday. Over the weekend it had long queues and consequently ran dry.

It it just mind boggling when people say things will just get back to normal as soon as people stop panic buying.

But NO, if there are not sufficient drivers, things will not get back to normal until there are ... sufficient drivers.