The morons are out!
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And of course the COVID figures and the need for the untested vaccine is real as well! 
It’s a mystery why were having there supply issues lol
. I have a fair idea of the number of morons to blame
. I have a fair idea of the number of morons to blame
I re-classed the Kia as a tractor and run it on red diesel 
Warning……
Just been released on BBC anyone who has filled up with petrol/ diesel today DON‘T use your car for a week as petrol / diesel is contaminated, it should clear if the car isn’t started for a week, then check with the dip stick that’s sitting behind the steering wheel
Just been released on BBC anyone who has filled up with petrol/ diesel today DON‘T use your car for a week as petrol / diesel is contaminated, it should clear if the car isn’t started for a week, then check with the dip stick that’s sitting behind the steering wheel
Don't see how any of this can be blamed on news programmes. I watch the news, but it didn't make me go out and buy loads of toilet rolls or petrol. There are just a lot of idiots out there.
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Oh no he isn't.
Just been out, filled up because it's about time, straight in to the filling station, fill up at £1.35.9 just like usual, and then went into Pwllheli to do some shopping from the fully-stocked shelves in Asda. No sign of a panic here.
I call them Sheeple, I should revise that really, we have the local farmer’s sheep grazing our fields (best lawn mowers in existence and do not need fuel!) and they have more brains than the Sheeple.
Oh no he isn't.
No Sheeple in Wales boyo, just the actual Sheep. On my way over to fill up now!
£1.359! Bloody Hell that is £6.17 a gallon. I can just remember swearing when full fat petrol (no unleaded E10 in those days) went above £1. (1979)
Wonder when it will reach a tenner (£2.199/litre)? Plus it is diluted with cheaper 10% bio ethanol. Thieves!!!!
Wonder when it will reach a tenner (£2.199/litre)? Plus it is diluted with cheaper 10% bio ethanol. Thieves!!!!
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Mark Gutteridge
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Brexit the gift that never stops giving!
Obviously the news didn't twist anyone's arm to force them to go fill up. But it's the way the media report anything.
If there were two equally important stories. One good and one bad. You can be sure that the news headline and most coverage will concentrate on the bad. And, if the bad isn't all that bad they'll talk about it as if it is.
The Government, in the week, told people not to panic buy…it works with behavioural scientists. It knows what the result would be: panic buying.
Still leaves some including me with a car without fuel in it.
Shambolic is an understatement in terms of what is going on.
Still leaves some including me with a car without fuel in it.
Shambolic is an understatement in terms of what is going on.
At the moment I have just over half a tank so off to Shirebrook in the morning. IF I run out of fuel I will be terribly lost.
Tony.
Tony.
The media can and will cause a panic over almost anything . Over here in the states , its the great toilet paper shortage starting up again . My mom has been buying some every time she goes to the store so we have a pretty good stockpile built up. Grocery prices have been continuing to rise , meat is going out the roof . Where I live , gas right now is around $3.09 a gallon , slowly creeping up weekly. I believe its only going to get worse .
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My wife and her friend returned from our place in Kissimmee a few days before the first lockdown here in the UK. They brought some rolls of toilet paper after seeing/hearing all the crap on the news. Only just used it 19 months later.
As for fuel prices, it only concerns you where you live. . Okay fuel is cheaper in the US than it is here (by a big amount), but it is the local cost that makes a difference to your life, not somewhere halfway across the world.
Tony.
As for fuel prices, it only concerns you where you live. . Okay fuel is cheaper in the US than it is here (by a big amount), but it is the local cost that makes a difference to your life, not somewhere halfway across the world.
Tony.
The problem isn't a shortage of drivers.
That BP station that started it all. Maybe the manager was off with covid and his minions forgot to order. Or maybe the transporter driver scheduled to deliver to that BP station was pulling a sickie.
In any case the media sniff a story and immediately drag a minister on telly to tell us there is no shortage.
No amount of drivers and transporters are able to supply enough fuel when everyone in the country, and his dog, suddenly wants to fill up their cars to the brim. There just isn't enough fuel in the system to fill everyone's cars to the brim on the same day.
The system is designed to cope with normal behaviour. This is not normal behaviour.
The current uk stock of turkey twizzlers is enough for normal twizzler consumption behaviour. If we all rush out to buy turkey twizzlers for dinner (and fill up the freezer) there'd be a shortage and we can blame it on the twizzler drivers and demand the resignation of the minister for uk twizzler policy.
That BP station that started it all. Maybe the manager was off with covid and his minions forgot to order. Or maybe the transporter driver scheduled to deliver to that BP station was pulling a sickie.
In any case the media sniff a story and immediately drag a minister on telly to tell us there is no shortage.
No amount of drivers and transporters are able to supply enough fuel when everyone in the country, and his dog, suddenly wants to fill up their cars to the brim. There just isn't enough fuel in the system to fill everyone's cars to the brim on the same day.
The system is designed to cope with normal behaviour. This is not normal behaviour.
The current uk stock of turkey twizzlers is enough for normal twizzler consumption behaviour. If we all rush out to buy turkey twizzlers for dinner (and fill up the freezer) there'd be a shortage and we can blame it on the twizzler drivers and demand the resignation of the minister for uk twizzler policy.
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What about marmite eh! If there was a rush of marmite consumers I fear the country would have a genuine shortage of panic buyers.