I have a confession ....

[Mk2Jo]

.... I panic bought fuel today

 

Anyone else stockpiling it? I didn't go as far as filling a gerry can but I did put more than normal into the daily

[Vista]

Well, I panicked certainly as I had to take my little boy to an out of hours GP surgery last night and my fuel light came on on the way there (it's a 25 mile each way trip). No problem I think, fill up locally. WRONG, sold out of diesel! Crept back conserving what little I had and had to go out this morning and fill up, showing 2 mile range on the computer and no knowledge of a. what the queue would be like nor whether they'd have any diesel left...............do you think I made it?

[Mk2Jo]

Oh dear - I hope you did mate

[SmokeEm]

I've just this minute heard that both fuel stations in Bordon have run out of fuel!!!

[Vista]

Oh dear - I hope you did mate

 

yeah just! Big queue at Sainsburys and I was thinking I was going to end up pushing it on the forecourt (a tall order on your own with a 5 series estate!) agonising over which was going to use less fuel, stopping and starting every minute or two as the queue moved forward or letting it run. I opted to let it run and it started to splutter just as I was a few metres from the pump! I reckon I need to change the fuel filter with the sludge that's bound to have pulled through

[GJUK]

Picked the most expensive garage in the area. Filler her up with £104 worth of dizzel. No one was there! I LOVE fuel cards.

Jon

[Jiffer]

off to Cyprus tomorrow and got enough to get from Peterborough to Gatwick, dont care after that

[banarama]

i normally spend around,700 quid a month

[tim]

here a sneek peek at my shed

 

 

 

[lotusless]

Its bloody stupid all these muppets going mental over fuel! they have not even said the date of the strike yet and they have to give 7 days notice. I had to get some today as it was running on fumes but people were filling up to the brim + i only stuck my usual amount in, Its probably a lie just to get everyone spending more than they can afford. And then they will use more fuel pulling more weight around

[Posse]

on my way home i did try but most of the garages i go past have run out Plus i think if i put more than a tenner in my van it would prob pack up with the shock

[Fiesta Steve]

I buy discounted fuel 100 litres at a time so always have a few 20 litre cans in stock. I have 3 cans full at the moment. The fuel light came on today and was going to fill up at home as usual but thought better of it and left the fuel in stock. I took the daily to the filling station and they had run out but had some left at the HGV pump. The nozzel was larger and didn't fit my car very well making it difficult to fill but eventually I got full tank. I wasn't panic buying, I always brim it !

[SebringRS]

I put £10 in the escort last night, queued for 20 mins, i was only going out for tea

[GJUK]

Can't ever see a reason not to top up a car unless you're about to sell it or it's not yours.

[Jiffer]

read into this what you will, but my mate a sergeant in the army was told in december to be prepared for a fuel strike in april

[silverstreak]

when is it april the 1st

[Fiesta Steve]

Normally its just after the end of March

[jas]

i got to get some diesel today and if i cant get any it will be cooking oil going in again

[stuartp]

nah, haven't noticed any queues or closed petrol stations here either

 

i filled up this morning but that's cos i was running on fumes - didn't have to wait more than usual

[oddball]

A friend of my daughters works at the local petrol station and said that the phone is constantly ringing with people asking if there is any petrol there.

They run out at 4pm yesterday with a delivery expected at 8pm the fuel tanker got followed by a convoy of cars into the petrol station.Its got very stupid round here

 

Even the 24hr petrol station had queues at 3am

[stuartp]

traffic been bad all day and customers in the shop have been saying petrol stations have run out or have massive queues - sounds like i was lucky

 

 

people really are idiots!

 

 

i'm positive it wouldn't take much for us to revert back to animals bashing each other over the head with sticks

[FBF]

Plenty of fuel in crawley, all the benifit scroungers here cant afford to fill up. Yay

[D-FENS]

F*****g mental here,Hayes Middx,massive lines of traffic at every petrol station.My son spends part of the week in High Wycombe and he said its the same there

[Yeomans22]

i put £70.01 in my 3 series tonight,

 

i normally brim the tank andyway and the light was on, i did have to try 3 stations before i found any.

 

it will last me probably 2 months anyway so the fuel problems will be over by then

[GJUK]

Plenty of fuel in crawley, all the benifit scroungers here cant afford to fill up. Yay

 

 

When I filled up time before last the lady behing the desk said... "fuel card..."

 

I told her that she had "read my mind".

 

"Only business users fill there cars these days."

 

Sign of the times.\o/