Filled up Sunday 2 cars in front of me, refilled empty tank on Tuesday que grown to 5 cars in front of me.Not prepared to que on Wednesday so worked localy and refilled empty tank on Thursday afternoon no ques in sight at any petrol stations I passed. just heard tesco and asda about to reduce cost by 4 p/litre so who's been profitering?
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It's easy to scoff at panic buyers, but many of them will almost certainly rely on their vehicle to get to and from work and that could be some distance.
My next door neighbours, along with my son, for instance all have 30+ miles each way to their places of employment.
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Filled up with warning light flashing occasionally. Refused to queue at 10:30pm so went at 7:00am and filled up with no queue at all.
Unlike the muppet who works two miles from home and was seen filling up the same car three times in 12 hours - and I know he had not been anywhere!
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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I hope that means all the panic buyers are sitting there considering how much of their time they wasted in queues and how much additional money they stumped up. Serves them right and makes me laugh.
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Well, I figure some people filled up from near empty, so needed the fuel anyway, or topped up and payed a few pennies over the odds, which doesn't really tickle me that much personally.
As for wasted time - well I suppose they might look at regular posters on here and wonder? ;o)
Unlike the muppet who works two miles from home and was seen filling up the same car three times in 12 hours - and I know he had not been anywhere!
Hmmm, those curtains must have been twitching overtime!!! :o)
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It's easy to scoff at panic buyers, but many of them will almost certainly rely on their vehicle to get to and from work and that could be some distance. My next door neighbours, along with my son, for instance all have 30+ miles each way to their places of employment.
But do they need a tank brimmed to the max to do the journey? The impression I got was that the panic buyers were unnecessarily topping up their tanks again when they'd only used a couple gallons from it.
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We need cars to take the children to school (rural area, some considerable distance) and I need car to get to work (rural area, some considerable distance), but still decided against mindless lemming behaviour.
Both cars filled up only when their warning lights came on - one during the panic buying period but in a seemingly non-panic buying area, both need filling up again this weekend or so and rather amused to see price coming down considerably.
I hope that means all the panic buyers are sitting there considering how much of their time they wasted in queues and how much additional money they stumped up.
Serves them right and makes me laugh.
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Did anyone panic buy?
Nope not here.
The possible significance of a fuel supply crisis didn't really register until I had got home from work and pondered the queues of cars at filling stations encountered (and passed by) on the journey home.
A night's self criticism at not taking the situation seriously led to a mildy panicky A/Ian the following morning and finding all the garsges bone dry on my journey in. The major supermarket filling stations had their entrances coned off with triumphant and smug assistants waving me on and away.
By this time, mild forehead perspiration had developed at the thought of possibly having to spend the weekend at my office. Called into a local village garage to find no queues and fuel of all denominations in abundance. Filled up and left the forecourt with a sense of 'dragon slain accomplishment'.
'When the music's over, turn out the lights'
AI
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I admit to topping up on Monday on seeing an empty BP forecourt.
Mind you even the ordinary DERV was 99.9p and 1/3 tank was ~£25 IIRC.
On expenses this time so not too painful.
Still 94.9p locally at my local Total and Esso garages.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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I didn't panic, but I bought - for Mrs (£37) and my car (£48), so they were both low-ish.
In my case, I never quite know when I might have to go out at short notice, and it's usually a 200+ mile round trip when I do, so I usually brim at the end of the journey or thereabouts. I hadn't, so on Tuesday I thought I'd better just in case...
Mrs usually uses her car 5 days a week for 70 mile round trip (work) but has just started car sharing (coincidentally to this "crisis") So as hers was stood there and was over 3/4 empty I did that too...just in case... And I need to keep in her good books!! :-)
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No panic buying here but did have to fill up last night, one day before prices came down.
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Yup I did. I had half a tank and had a 300 miler round trip to do which ordinarily I would have started and then filled up off the motorway on the way back. The thought of being stuck at a motorway services with no fuel available and not enough in the tank to complete the journey didn't appeal so I joined the queues and wasted a good chunk of my 5p per litre off voucher. At least I got £28 in mine the Porsche Cayenne next to me only managed to squeeze in £12. I think I'll pick up a 10 litre (good for 100 miles) can and carry that in the boot until it all blows over.
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>>until it all blows over.>>
It already has...:-)
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Urm... hasn't it all blown over?
I filled up last week before going to Brixton and Oxford at the weekend. A week in Rotterdam has meant no need to drive so there's more than half a tank left.
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All in all, a nice result for EVERYONE!!
The independents that managed to sneak an extra peeny or two, on existing stock, then gaining a good cashflow, from empty tanks - then a more 'normal' price on next weeks delivery.
HM Customs got a bit more VAT.
Supermarkets being good to the customer, implying THEY have brought the price down first.
Tanker drivers get a nice overtime bonus this month.
Drivers will SAVE money, 'cos they won't wate time/£$£$ going to fill up with 'just a tenner' every few days, 'cos they still have plenty in the tank.
The enviromentalists will be able to tell us that we brought the disaster in USA upon ourselves, by using too much fuel!!
So EVERYONE WINS!!
VB
PS Mrs V filled up last Friday & the Omega will get tanked in the am, assuming Shell in Luton price match Asda & reduce Optimax acordingly!!
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Filled up Sunday on a deserted forecourt, fill up next Sunday at he same forecourt 600 miles later; moral - buy a diesel.
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