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Post by questionable on Sept 25, 2021 13:50:38 GMT
Glad that I went electric a few months back!!!! I was thinking that earlier, but if you charge externally you’re shafted as most charging points I’ve seen are at supermarkets so you’re going to queue getting to one ?? Bloke told me last week it takes him 23 hours to charge at home?? Every other Tom, Dick and Harry have Tesla’s around here bet they’re grinning now, can’t wait for the next power cut 😁😁, plus surely it costs more now on their home energy bills to charge ?? |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 25, 2021 14:03:18 GMT
Yes he was only recruited yesterday by the BBC as one of their new group of correspondents called "make up a story where there isn’t one" department. He may get a foreign posting if he’s lucky as the BBC Make up a story Foreign Correspondent. He could end up in the USA and find there are at least 5 USA correspondents who don’t do anything because Laura Kuenssberg is the Chief Political Correspondent who appears all over the world alongside Lyse Ducet. Bloody BBC, causing these fuel shortages and wasting our licence fees by reporting from news locations globally...  Looks like you’ve been fooled by them into believing there is a fuel shortage. The media are 100% to blame for this panic buying of petrol. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Sept 25, 2021 15:04:46 GMT
Even this miniscule town in mid wales has run out, they're bloody everywhere. Just said on the news that BP only have 2 stations without fuel. We must be mighty unlucky in Staffs cos I’ve seen 2 BP stations this evening closed with no fuel Delivery this morning as usual and the queues started before the poor bloke got out of his cab. I went back later and stuck a tenners worth in for the drive to Aberystwyth for a hospital appointment Monday. |
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Post by dexta on Sept 25, 2021 15:10:58 GMT
On my drive into work this morning noticed both petrol stations on dividy Road had put a extra five pence increase per litre on there fuel some people will be making money out of this
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Post by questionable on Sept 25, 2021 15:31:10 GMT
On my drive into work this morning noticed both petrol stations on dividy Road had put a extra five pence increase per litre on there fuel some people will be making money out of this Any Queuing? |
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Post by dutchstokie on Sept 25, 2021 16:12:38 GMT
My wife is one of those community key workers who uses about a tank a week at the best of times. I saw this coming and managed to fill her car this morning before she works this weekend and people were there with their cans filling up. God knows what we will do next week, I fear we will have to take our chances wherever has fuel People don't realise panic buying will create an actual shortage. The government and media are 100% responsible for this and it's frankly disgusting behaviour from them. How the fuck are the government to blame Thick cunts on here don’t know what’s what so they just follow on like sheep…… You know that volcano that just erupted……Boris’ fault that was ! HONEST ! 😂 |
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Sept 25, 2021 16:28:04 GMT
How the fuck are the government to blame Thick cunts on here don’t know what’s what so they just follow on like sheep…… You know that volcano that just erupted……Boris’ fault that was ! HONEST ! 😂 Is there much fuel panic buying in the Netherlands, Dutch? Queues, stations running out etc? |
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Post by dave1 on Sept 25, 2021 16:30:38 GMT
Glad that I went electric a few months back!!!! I was thinking that earlier, but if you charge externally you’re shafted as most charging points I’ve seen are at supermarkets so you’re going to queue getting to one ?? Bloke told me last week it takes him 23 hours to charge at home?? Every other Tom, Dick and Harry have Tesla’s around here bet they’re grinning now, can’t wait for the next power cut 😁😁, plus surely it costs more now on their home energy bills to charge ?? If it takes him 23 hours to charge then he is charging via a 3 pin plug. I have a proper charger, which starts to charge at 12pm-5am. Unless a power cut lasts a week it wouldnt impact me. Yeah it increases electric bill but compared to buying petrol/diesel it's about half price!!!! Happy days |
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Sept 25, 2021 16:33:09 GMT
Bloody BBC, causing these fuel shortages and wasting our licence fees by reporting from news locations globally... Looks like you’ve been fooled by them into believing there is a fuel shortage. The media are 100% to blame for this panic buying of petrol. I must have been fooled by the Telegraph and every other news outlet which has reported this story, in some combined left, centre and right-wing media conspiracy to pretend that something is happening when it really isn't... Bloody media.... |
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Sept 25, 2021 16:35:24 GMT
I was thinking that earlier, but if you charge externally you’re shafted as most charging points I’ve seen are at supermarkets so you’re going to queue getting to one ?? Bloke told me last week it takes him 23 hours to charge at home?? Every other Tom, Dick and Harry have Tesla’s around here bet they’re grinning now, can’t wait for the next power cut 😁😁, plus surely it costs more now on their home energy bills to charge ?? If it takes him 23 hours to charge then he is charging via a 3 pin plug. I have a proper charger, which starts to charge at 12pm-5am. Unless a power cut lasts a week it wouldnt impact me. Yeah it increases electric bill but compared to buying petrol/diesel it's about half price!!!! Happy days Yeah, on average mileage and average energy tariffs, you'll save about a grand a year on fuel alone, worth bearing in mind for any PCP calculations that you need to deduct roughly £85 a month from the monthly outlay... |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 25, 2021 16:37:41 GMT
Looks like you’ve been fooled by them into believing there is a fuel shortage. The media are 100% to blame for this panic buying of petrol. I must have been fooled by the Telegraph and every other news outlet which has reported this story, in some combined left, centre and right-wing media conspiracy to pretend that something is happening when it really isn't... Bloody media.... Believe what you want……From the horses mouth I rest my case Attachment Deleted |
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Post by zerps on Sept 25, 2021 16:53:21 GMT
How am I going to run my diesel generator that charges my tesla?
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Post by zerps on Sept 25, 2021 16:54:18 GMT
I must have been fooled by the Telegraph and every other news outlet which has reported this story, in some combined left, centre and right-wing media conspiracy to pretend that something is happening when it really isn't... Bloody media.... Believe what you want……From the horses mouth I rest my case View AttachmentShell garage stockton brook has absolutely no fuel |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 25, 2021 17:15:39 GMT
Shell garage stockton brook has absolutely no fuel Same down here mate. I put that post up to demonstrate that it’s the media who are whipping up hysteria that is causing the panic buying that is emptying the pumps. Nothing to do with the government, or the supply chain. Pure unadulterated scaremongering to sell papers and online click bait. They are vermin. |
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Post by zerps on Sept 25, 2021 17:22:32 GMT
Shell garage stockton brook has absolutely no fuel Same down here mate. I put that post up to demonstrate that it’s the media who are whipping up hysteria that is causing the panic buying that is emptying the pumps. Nothing to do with the government, or the supply chain. Pure unadulterated scaremongering to sell papers and online click bait. They are vermin. Agree mate. The media control everything. It’s terrifying. |
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 25, 2021 17:37:29 GMT
How am I going to run my diesel generator that charges my tesla? Tried filtering leftover oil from the chippy? |
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Sept 25, 2021 17:37:45 GMT
The most panic buying can do is cause a temporary shortage - unlike bog rolls and pasta once people's tanks are full they can't keep buying it. What you're getting at the moment is people who would have filled up sometime over the weekend for the week ahead all filling up on a Friday and most won't use much of it. It will all have blown over by Tuesday afternoon. It has a knock on effect on so many things though. I'm in a FB group with someone who works for one of the courier companies - he's said drivers have been unable to fuel their delivery vans, and in one case, it's meant a delivery of biological products that was headed to a hospital hasn't been made and those products have perished. He didn't say what those products were, but... I wasn't minimising it mate - I was merely underlining as many others have how ludicrous the panic buying is. That said it's not that there is no fuel - there is - and having previously worked in logistics at times when supplies have been tight I would certainly have been prioritising essential deliveries like medical supplies over - say - consumer goods. |
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Post by zerps on Sept 25, 2021 17:39:06 GMT
How am I going to run my diesel generator that charges my tesla? Tried filtering leftover oil from the chippy? Yeah dogs keep mating with the generator |
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Post by xchpotter on Sept 25, 2021 17:52:19 GMT
I don’t think we can do much about the fuckwits engulfing the petrol stations despite there being fuel; they are the same sort who would look at the sun during an eclipse when told not to.
However, two simple things would shift the queues on massively:
1. Maximum of a 3 or 4 gallon fill at any one time.
2. Pump attendants service only and ban self service. It pisses me off at the best of times watching twats fuck about with plastic gloves, realise they’ve parked on the wrong side of the pump despite long hoses, buggering about with the pay at the pump card machine or wandering around the shop for a Sunday dinner before paying. Then, once back in the car they think it’s a good idea to rearrange their centre console and door bins.
If we could shift these morons on quickly for the time being we will see less queues and in turn the panic buying will stop.
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Post by questionable on Sept 25, 2021 18:07:04 GMT
How am I going to run my diesel generator that charges my tesla? Tried filtering leftover oil from the chippy? Don’t start me on that, chippy tea last night. Pudding, chips, peas and gravy twice £12.60 nearly died when I asked how much. |
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Post by heworksardtho on Sept 25, 2021 18:53:55 GMT
Company that run the Stanlow refinery and sixth largest supplier in the U.K. are on the verge of bankruptcy unless the HRMC can come to a deal with the repayments of over £200 million they owe in VAT
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Post by chuffedstokie on Sept 25, 2021 18:55:12 GMT
I must have been fooled by the Telegraph and every other news outlet which has reported this story, in some combined left, centre and right-wing media conspiracy to pretend that something is happening when it really isn't... Bloody media.... Believe what you want……From the horses mouth I rest my case View AttachmentIf every HGV driver had an ADR licence there might be some flexibility when there's more than one bloke on holiday at any one time. |
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Post by questionable on Sept 25, 2021 19:00:10 GMT
The wife’s just got in, works at a large supermarket chain.
Diesel ran out at 1 and petrol by 4, no limits on purchases and they were taking 3k an hour, absolutely bonkers as the tanker couldn’t get near to refill as the lemmings were queuing blocking the roads and pumps.
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Post by followyoudown on Sept 25, 2021 19:44:43 GMT
If every HGV driver had an ADR licence there might be some flexibility when there's more than one bloke on holiday at any one time. They had a phone in on LBC in the week a guy called in said he had his ADR but couldn't get onto tankers as it was a closed shop, wouldn't take people with no experience and you couldn't get experience unless someone gave you a job, tankers is quite highly unionised to protect their pay which in some ways is fair enough I wouldn't want to be driving a bomb up and down motorways for £10 an hour. |
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Post by Northy on Sept 25, 2021 21:27:37 GMT
Drove home steadily from Stevenage earlier, nearly ran out, straight into the garage on the edge of our village, no queues, only had the expensive unleaded left though, and diesel.
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Post by sd22 on Sept 25, 2021 21:36:31 GMT
Would love a fully electric, but to get one the same size as my Mokka X with the same mileage would cost an arm and a leg!!
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Post by desman2 on Sept 25, 2021 21:51:27 GMT
If we have a logistics problem and it's because the Eastern Europeans went home then maybe it's because they chose to return home. Most drivers who stopped were home grown who got fed up of their terms and conditions
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Post by harryburrows on Sept 26, 2021 0:41:26 GMT
Would love a fully electric, but to get one the same size as my Mokka X with the same mileage would cost an arm and a leg!! Is mileage such an issue with electric vehicles?? |
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Post by dave1 on Sept 26, 2021 6:11:46 GMT
Would love a fully electric, but to get one the same size as my Mokka X with the same mileage would cost an arm and a leg!! Is mileage such an issue with electric vehicles?? In my opinion it would only become an issue if you were regulary doing more miles per day than your range (in my case this would be 280). Other than that I can't see mileage being an issue... |
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Post by wagsastokie on Sept 26, 2021 6:19:19 GMT
Thick cunts on here don’t know what’s what so they just follow on like sheep…… You know that volcano that just erupted……Boris’ fault that was ! HONEST ! 😂 Is there much fuel panic buying in the Netherlands, Dutch? Queues, stations running out etc? Probably not There not renowned as a bunch of knicker wetting tossers Oh and they cycle a lot |
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