Petrol queues reported now on BBC news

I made the mistake of taking the slip road into the services on my way home from work to get a coffee! I spent 2 hours stuck as the queue for the petrol station ( off the same roundabout to the service block) completely blocked everything! Dozens of lorries and cars all stationary- on a major motorway service roundabout.- nobody going anywhere.

Brexit! What did anyone expect - also shelves empty of lots of stuff! Saying no more apart from England and Wales voted for it! What did you expect???

GrannyGravy13

Ashcombe

Copied from a post on Facebook:-

"After seeing the news last night about fuel shortages, I popped in to Tesco and I spoke to a very nice tanker driver who was rather informative and told me that the boats carrying fuel are arriving daily at Plymouth, the two depots in Plymouth are extremely well stocked and there is no shortage of drivers. His only concern was news articles misleading the public. He finished by explaining that it is only BP who have issues."

Yep, today’s petrol buying frenzy is entirely the fault of U.K. media.

It wasn't the fault of the media on Thursday morning when my Tesco didn't have any fuel because there hadn't been any news about it. I don't think the Tesco delivery driver is being quite truthful either. Tesco themselves made an announcement that some of their petrol stations are affected. Apparently, some of them have been outsourced to Esso and there's been a problem with them. It was sod's law for me that the next nearest service station is BP. I had no idea that there was any kind of problem.

Went out for dinner last night. Came out of the restaurant at about 8.30 pm last night and saw that vehicles were queuing all along the high street through town as if it was a very busy Saturday. We walked towards home wondering what could have happened. As we turned the corner towards the petrol station all became clear. The petrol station is on a small roundabout. The queue of cars we had seen were waiting to turn into the petrol station. This was also causing chaos at the roundabout. I'm not sure whether this was caused by people panic buying petrol that they wouldn't usually be buying or people who had tried to fill up elsewhere during the day and found there was no petrol available.

We are indeed.......doomed!

No pictures of people queuing for petrol in Europe are there?

growstuff

GrannyGravy13

Ashcombe

Copied from a post on Facebook:-

"After seeing the news last night about fuel shortages, I popped in to Tesco and I spoke to a very nice tanker driver who was rather informative and told me that the boats carrying fuel are arriving daily at Plymouth, the two depots in Plymouth are extremely well stocked and there is no shortage of drivers. His only concern was news articles misleading the public. He finished by explaining that it is only BP who have issues."

Yep, today’s petrol buying frenzy is entirely the fault of U.K. media.

It wasn't the fault of the media on Thursday morning when my Tesco didn't have any fuel because there hadn't been any news about it. I don't think the Tesco delivery driver is being quite truthful either. Tesco themselves made an announcement that some of their petrol stations are affected. Apparently, some of them have been outsourced to Esso and there's been a problem with them. It was sod's law for me that the next nearest service station is BP. I had no idea that there was any kind of problem.

Same here. In fact i pottered into Tesco petrol station and was surprised as it was tapped off and assumed that the pumps were out of action for some reason because there had been nothing to say about shortage prior to that.

The roads were rammed with people queuing for petrol, absolutely ridiculous and selfish, you couldn’t navigate the island by the petrol station, it was dangerous as if they were fleeing for sanctuary somewhere. I will need petrol pretty soon but hopefully the panic will subside and I can get some then. Are these the same people that stripped the shelves of essentials at the beginning of lockdown? If there truly was a shortage it would have to go to those with essential jobs.

Unfortunately the BBC sky daily mail and most of the media seem to be running the country at the moment their articles are nothing more than scaremongering which in turn prompt people to panic buy . When you actually listen to what the media is saying it usually have the words Could.Maybe in the articles the press at the moment is very dangerous to Britain which is very worrying

There's a shortage of HGV drivers in Europe too, so no Brexit effect there.

South London petrol stations have run dry. There are none in my area which are open. I missed out and now have a car with virtually no petrol. I understand queuing starts before 6am. What about emergency vehicles or people trying to get to work? Plumbers needing to get to an emergency call out but can't go due to no petrol? What a state we're in.

I blame the MSM totally for putting this on their headline news. Last night on TV there was a garage owner saying there is plenty fuel and there is no need to panic buy. As long as the media keep showing it the people will panic buy. Then the people who really need the fuel will be unable to get it. You just wonder why the MSM behave so irresponsibly?

Not everyone with a half full tank of petrol and filling up is panic buying. I had a half full tank yesterday and filled up - why? As I have to drive 250 miles home today with a 3 yr old and I didn’t want to get to rural Aberdeenshire and run out. People would have been welcome to challenge me and would have received a mouthful in return as it’s not anyone’s business why I needed to fill up. Everyone should fill what they need and no more, but I also think people can’t sit in judgement of those filling up as no-one knows exactly why they are doing so.

I'm judging this guy quite harshly.

There was a petrol station manager on BBC news this morning he said on average on a Friday we sell 8,000 litres of fuel, yesterday we sold 28,000 He is now closed and awaiting a delivery.

panic buying frenzy …

I don't think the Tesco delivery driver is being quite truthful either

growstuff Why wouldn’t he be truthful? What advantage would there be to him? One imagines he was describing the issue based on his experience, just as posters on here are doing. In most areas, daily deliveries are expected at Tesco, if they are to outlets not linked to Esso. Asda, too, seems to be coping.

I got lucky as I filled up on Wednesday while shopping at Asda. The news was on the radio as I drove home and on Thursday it seems that the queues at Asda for petrol prevented people accessing the supermarket at all as they couldn't reach the car park with queues right down the road. Its like the people stockpiling loo rolls! Idiots all of them!

Well...once all these stupid people have unnecessarily filled their tanks to bursting they will have to use it before they can do it again. This will give petrol stations time to fill their tanks again and hopefully ration.

There's no need to ration petrol. That will just make it worse. Let all the worried folk fill up every receptacle they have in their house and then the rest of us can get back to buying as normal.

(growstuff and others who are filling up as usual, excepted from my criticism, obviously)

I do feel like I should't use what little fuel I have though

There's a shortage of HGV drivers in Europe too, so no Brexit effect there.

Sparklefizz: This is true up to a point for many reasons:-

westcountrybylines.co.uk/twenty-reasons-why-there-is-an-hgv-driver-shortage-part-one-1-10/

Here in France, we have no issues with fuel or food deliveries.

It’s going to be a fun winter.

And yes there is an EU shortage but I’ll be interested to see how many HGV drivers take up the opportunity of a temporary visa.

Taxis are almost impossible to get here already (a lot of the taxi drivers in this city were recruited from Romania - unsurprisingly they have left). Buses keep on not turning up. I have quarter of a tank left so may not be going very far soon. I am hoping that the forecourts will be quiet early next week and I’ll be able to fill up then.

Think it’s a little naive to think that this has nothing to do with Brexit. The French press certainly sees it as a consequence

Ah cross posted Ashcombe

In my opinion the media causes all this panic. I topped up on Thursday and all was calm. Suddenly, there are massive headlines that we will run out of fuel, and the public go berserk to fill up. I've seen pictures on social media of cars with 7 or 8 fuel containers to fill up as well as their vehicles. The garages should stop this. The media has a lot to answer for in these situations. It is about time people in this country pulled together instead of blaming the government for everything. Whichever party is in power, we have this 'we told you so' scenario, it's quite pathetic.

It's the toilet roll scenario all over again! Greed, greed, greed.