Petrol queues reported now on BBC news

Unfortunately the BBC sky daily mail and most of the media seem to be running the country at the moment..

Well, at least somebody is, because the government sure as hell isn't..

If people used their brains instead of taking every single word quoted by the media, or even politicians, there would not be such a problem. However it seems as if acting like suicidal leemings, if one does it the rest follow! When did the general population give up thinking for itself!!

if BP had kept quiet and said there was a shortage of drivers not fuel there would not have been the queues. my local Tesco yesterday had queues for nearly a mile which was blocking not only the road to tesco but also the slip road off the duel carriageway most sitting there with engines running wasting fuel, i had to drive in the wrong lane then cut across traffic just to get into tesco to do my weekly shop i was not going to queue for petrol which i am getting low on and need to fill up befor my hospital appointment next friday so will try to fill up early next week

Never mind loo paper or petrol - this might be the real danger

We all filled up fuel in my family. one DD is a social worker and needs her car for visits, one DD is a student nurse so also needs her car The other DGD goes to school several miles from home so they need a car daily. This isn't panic buying but essential travel.

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Who you got in mind MerylStreep?

Do tell.

Or actually don't bother, because I for one am fed up with the snide comments about other posters. If you think someone is an idiot, just say so.

Ashcombe

^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 have no idea. Maybe he was being loyal to his company.

"Esso owner ExxonMobil also said a “small number” of Tesco Alliance petrol forecourts have been impacted by disruption to petrol deliveries."

www.independent.co.uk/business/bp-and-tesco-close-pumps-and-ration-fuel-as-deliveries-hit-by-driver-shortage-b1925594.html

Tesco petrol stations have been mentioned in a number of sources.

My local Tesco was certainly affected before the news broke and the frenzy started.

Aptly named reporter.

If you think someone is an idiot, just say so.

Can't do that, Alegrias, it's against the T & C... Insinuation is safer...

MayBeMaw

Never mind loo paper or petrol - this might be the real danger

If the CO2 shortage persists that will no longer be a joke

Can the British endure the 'teething' troubles of no turkeys, no petrol and no beer?

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Can always rely on whitewave to make any subject an excuse to slate the government

What I find worrying is the total lack of contingency by the government.

Fuel is one of the most important chains to be kept going as without it everything grinds to a halt.

Surely as furlough comes to and end, school restarting and people returning to the office, it would be obvious to a toddler that fuel consumption would rise and therefore we would need a delivery service to the pumps.

What the hell is this government doing? Apart from going on holiday.

The media have a lot to answer for; their news coverage of a handful of BP stations running out temporarily has created a mass panic. Had they kept out of it BP and the rest could have probably ridden the storm with minimal disruption

WoodLane7

The media have a lot to answer for; their news coverage of a handful of BP stations running out temporarily has created a mass panic. Had they kept out of it BP and the rest could have probably ridden the storm with minimal disruption

Exactly, but hey ho let’s show pictures of closed petrol pumps whip the gullible general public into a panic buying frenzy and there you have it…

More empty pumps, more panic buying…

Round and round it goes

@felice
Exactly my thoughts!

Gnetters are trigger happy this morning

Yes, the media have a lot to answer for in the scaremongering arena

The point is that business flags up these issues weeks months or in the driver shortage years in advance, but this government consistently fails for various reasons to act on them

We then find ourselves spiralling into these crises that should and could have been avoided.

MaizieD

Gnetters are trigger happy this morning

Wasting time waiting for washing machine to finish, and feel extremely lazy.

felice

Perhaps if the news channels were not splashing it on TV people would not be panic buying. Just saying.

My thoughts exactly!

What business is now doing in the absence of the government listening is going to the media.

So don’t shoot the messenger.

Whitewavemark2

What business is now doing in the absence of the government listening is going to the media.

So don’t shoot the messenger.

I’d like to shoot all the ridiculous people filling up their cars just in case along with numerous containers in their boots…