So the petrol companies earn a lot more from the panic buying, we all end up queing for nothing, it costs the couintry a fortune in lost output, jobs could be lost and in the end they will still be getting the same and we will still be buying the same...........face it fuel prices are going to rise, they are already way behind inflation and when it starts getting short in 4 years time it will be going up in £1 per litre not pence....so make to most of it and start looking for an alternative fueled car then you won't have to buy petrol/diesel

It's the panic buying that protesters want to encourage (and rightly so). That way, the mass hysteria pushes the resources so much that they can't cope and it all just spirals out of control.

I've been advocating a different idea for a fuel buying protest. Instead of boycotting the pumps, only buying fuel from Murco or only buying fuel on a full moon or all this random nonsense, why not buy fuel EVERY day.

Just imagine the chaos as people start blocking up the forecourts, only to buy £5 of fuel (about a litre and a half if the prices keep rising). The time to fill at the pump will be much shorter than the time to pay in the kiosk, causing a natural tail back.

Also, every time you go in to pay, have a wander around the shop, pick up a copy of Mayfair and have a thumb through the pages (you may need to open the bag). Basically, anything to keep your car sitting at the pump longer than necessary.

The general public will be caught up in this and assume there is some sort of shortage because every petrol station has masses of people waiting to get petrol, so will join the queue and tell all their friends and family, who will do the same.

And how is any of that nonsense supposed to cause prices to drop?

my local shell haste my guts, everytime i go in i ask them why my points dont seem to get added and we end up in a good arguement which when finished (and back to square 1) there is a good queue outside waiting to use the pumps and about a dozen people queued up behind me waiting to linch me

Wow that was brilliant -

I worked yesterday (Was totally insane). - Plenty of fuel. Plenty of customers so what happend??

- The big big boss man just came and put his prices up.

I know what people are trying to do with these strikes but tbh it just doesn't seem to be working....

I know what people are trying to do with these strikes but tbh it just doesn't seem to be working....

That's because in the run up to Xmas and in the cold, people have better things to do than protest, as born out by the pitiful turnout for the protests

Chris

IIRC the 2000 protests were in the late summer time and there was a slightly better turnout.

I would imagine the 'organisers' of the latest 'protest' feel a leeeetle bit silly right now. Credibility score: zero

100.9 - i wish - its 110.9 in hereford :(

The Shell I normall fill at is 99.9 for Unleaded and 104.9 for Diesel.

Thats at the Shell on Crompton Way close to where Bee's Kness Kwik Save was.