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Why is everyone panic buying diesel? here in Cornwall it's gone mad!! god knows why?

what's it like where you are?

Jay

Could have been me...
Earlier I accidentally divided by zero.., thought I'd got away with it.

Yep, no diesel here in Teignmouth or in Dawlish.

Plenty of unleaded though so when I eventually get to ride my bike again it'll an ok

I couldn't get any diesel today tried in torquay paignton brixham dawlish and teignmouth randomly tried all petrol stations I happened to pass with no joy

Popped in to Trago yesterday morning and they had no fuel at all. Left it and filled up at Cullumpton services yesterday evening with no problems. Can't say I've noticed any queuing at filling stations, so not sure what's going on. Can't help feeling once again fuel companies and media are creating a false situation to allow/cause an unwarranted massive jump in in fuel costs ......

went to fill the van last night huge queues in all the supermarket forecourts

Last story I heard was that the tankers were all stuck out at sea due to the storms.

I smelll bull poop

feck all to do with storms, more to do with Ukraine, oil companies will be delaying it for a while until they can charge us £1.70 a litre

billinom8s wrote: ↑Mar 1st, '22, 20:42 Last story I heard was that the tankers were all stuck out at sea due to the storms.

I smelll bull poop

Some truth in that. Also a strike at one of the refinearies AND tw@s panic buying. !st ship was offloaded in Plymouth last night.

It's been manic down here.... As Si said, lots of unleaded

I am assuming based on media coverage of the current conflict everybody is assuming there is a fuel shortage as Russia are not now supplying us. As I understand it there is not a fuel shortage we just get it from somewhere else but it cost more to buy it from somewhere else so the price has gone up. Daft bit is why the fuel prices are high panic buying is setting in to fill up tanks and fuel cans assuming that everywhere will run out. reality they are not running out other then the stations that have not ordered enough fuel as they were not expecting to need to get extra

Peeps rushing to get it at £1.50ish a litre before it hits £2.00ish a litre. And how many panic having driven only 50 miles after brimming their tanks and simply must top up with 3.5 litres.

That pisses me right off

I'm a courier and the van will only do 3ish days on a full tank and I'll spend most of the day trying to find supplies. I've started turning down extra work as it would involve a lot more miles and it's not worth the hassle and cost. If everyone filled up when they got down to a quarter tank or below we'd be fine. I get it that fuel prices are climbing but filling today instead of next week when maybe you'd be getting low might save you a pound Is it really worth it?

Welcome to the 'me me' generation.

ptolemyx wrote: ↑Mar 2nd, '22, 15:05 ........ having driven only 50 miles after brimming their tanks and simply must top up with 3.5 litres.

Or, for some of us, that'd be more like 25 litres