Not really sure why everyone is panic buying fuel at the moment...

And where on earth was the fella who was in front of me going to store his 2 massive cannisters of petrol??

However it shows how many use diesel now... 3 stations forecourts were almost empty.... only because they had sold out of DERV

Thankfully the switch to a petrol looks like paying off...!

Yesterdays news said petrol sales up 172%, diesel sales up 77% so a lot more panic buying petrol then diesel for a strike that can't happen without a weeks notice.

and confirmed in the news that its going to be at least 11 days away maybe more if it happens at all that is.

And when it happens it will probably be for one day only!

Yet again the goverment scaremongering and telling everyone to top up their fuel tanks

Guy Fawkes had the right idea....feckin useless overpaid ****s

Yet again the goverment scaremongering and telling everyone to top up their fuel tanks

Guy Fawkes had the right idea....feckin useless overpaid ****s

+1 totally agree.

Popped into Tesco last night as I needed to fill up the light was on. No diesel at all, only 2 pumps with unleaded on.

Every pump had super unleaded... Thank you, drive past the queue fill up and see you later.

Yep, our garage has run out of Derv as well, thank god for petrol and especially super unleaded as that runs out last !

Well here in Blandford we only have 2 fuel stations, one has no fuel of any description and is not expecting any for a few days and the other is Tesco and that is now the only filling station serving a whole town.

Popped into Tesco last night as I needed to fill up the light was on. No diesel at all, only 2 pumps with unleaded on.

Every pump had super unleaded... Thank you, drive past the queue fill up and see you later.

+1.

Another good reason to be a TSI owner.

Seriously though, agree with the other comments above. Panic buying muppetry.

All these buffoons are just slowing down those who genuinely need fuel to get on with their jobs / lives.

As already said, a week's notice is required - & they won't even be talking until next week!

And where on earth was the fella who was in front of me going to store his 2 massive cannisters of petrol??

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/232967-panic-buying-of-fuel/page__view__findpost__p__2738554

It's very clever on behalf of the government, they are not up as much as expected on the budget defecit with financial year end coming next week what do they do? Make use of a situation, namely the threat of tanker drivers to strike, get everyone to fill up with petrol now and all of a sudden an extra few hundred million pounds of tax in the coffers and next month wow look at how much we have brought down government borrowing in the last year!!!!

It's very clever on behalf of the government, they are not up as much as expected on the budget defecit with financial year end coming next week what do they do? Make use of a situation, namely the threat of tanker drivers to strike, get everyone to fill up with petrol now and all of a sudden an extra few hundred million pounds of tax in the coffers and next month wow look at how much we have brought down government borrowing in the last year!!!!

And it's stopped everyone moaning about the budget as well.....it's win win for them

And no one is now talking about the scandal of offering foreign business men access to the PM for 250 grand. Job done. Francis Maude took one for the team.

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And where on earth was the fella who was in front of me going to store his 2 massive cannisters of petrol??

I've still not quite worked out this petrol storage thing. Apparently you can legally only store up to 10 liters of petrol in a metal container or 5 liters in a plastic one. So how come the 20 liter metal container I've got sat in the garage attached to my motorbike, and 40 liter plastic tank the girlfriend's got parked in the drive are fine?

I'm going to need to fill the car up before Monday, hopefully the idiots will have now realised there's not going to be a strike for at least 10 days and stopped panicking.

I use almost a tank of diesel per week, because I work 180 miles from home, so if all of the idiots have panic bought all of the diesel around here I am going to be in difficulty for next week. Might be an excuse to work from home for the week!

Was down to 0 miles remaining yesterday driving around looking for diesel so that I could actually make it home from work, was actually getting worried at one point as none of the supermarkets had any, fortunately good old Total were on hand to provide, only annoying thing was that they had stuck 3p on a litre to make the most of the situation. B**t**ds!

Majority of stations round here are ok.

Both ours were empty last night - filled the Mini up at Morrisons with no issue, all pumps open and hardly any queue. Then on way out to rugby I went to BP which was the same except couple of pumps closed.

I've still not quite worked out this petrol storage thing. Apparently you can legally only store up to 10 liters of petrol in a metal container or 5 liters in a plastic one. So how come the 20 liter metal container I've got sat in the garage attached to my motorbike, and 40 liter plastic tank the girlfriend's got parked in the drive are fine?

I'm going to need to fill the car up before Monday, hopefully the idiots will have now realised there's not going to be a strike for at least 10 days and stopped panicking.

They are not, your on right tracks with containers your allowed but wrong quantities here is my post from the off topic section thread on the matter:

under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 control

the quantities of petrol permitted to be kept in containers for private use. This

limit also applies to carriage. A maximum of two metal containers each up to 10

litres capacity, plus a maximum of two suitable and appropriately-marked plastic

containers each up to five litres capacity, can be kept in a motor vehicle

So 30 litres max in 2X 10litre containers and 2X 5 litre ones most people are most likely seeing the green 20 litre ones being used police should sort these fools out.

Some petrol stations actively stop people breaking the law most dont! The rules are there they are old but diesel is a different matter Police have an opportunity to have a positive impact on this by informing people there and then of the law and that they are about to break it. it is dangerous to carry fuel in a container in a vehicle expecially so at this time of year.

That's my point though, maximum size 10 liters for a metal container or 5 liters for a plastic, yet the 20 liter metal tank on my bike and 40 liter plastic tank on the girlfiends car are perfectly acceptable.

I managed to get the last of the Diesel at my local Sainsburys today, they put the No Diesel sign out behind me.

Edited 31 March, 201214 yr by RizzoTheRat

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Well here in Blandford we only have 2 fuel stations, one has no fuel of any description and is not expecting any for a few days and the other is Tesco and that is now the only filling station serving a whole town.

And when I drove past Tesco last friday afternoon they had 2 people in hi-vis directing traffic because of the queues to fill up.

Ian