Well the government have done well creating a crisis without tanker drivers going on strike! Mrs Stan is currently stuck in a *long* queue waiting for fuel at her local garage as she doesn't have enough fuel to get home, yet there is no strike?

I'd be less surprised if there was an actual strike on at the moment, but don't these people realise that by the time the actual strikes start they are liable to have used all the fuel in their tanks anyway?

It reminds me of rationing, where people joined queues at shops not knowing what they were actually queuing for!

I have enough fuel in both cars to make it to work up to my penultimate shift this trip. I don't intend on buying any until I normally would at the weekend. I've already explained to my boss that if I can't get any fuel due to mongols then I can't come in. I'm not going to queue for an hour tonight to top up with half a tank because I'd feel like I'd let myself down and joined the spacktards.

Until people realise that it's a self fulfilling prophecy then it's only going to spiral out of control. If only we could birch anyone who tries to fill up when they have over half a tank still available in the next few days the world would be a much nicer place.

Irritating isn't it. Scaremongering leading to panic.

Annoyingly the people who know the facts rather than hear the hype suffer irrespective. I think you should be refused fuel if you can't state some simple facts about the planned strikes.

Luckily it doesn't affect me

Its almost as if the government want to engineer a panic to create a stick to beat the union with isn't it?

'Chaos' and 'Misery'.

Isn't it about time some innovative journalist thought up some better words?

The tanker drivers WILL go on strike that is 99.99% guaranteed, but i dont understand why the government has created a stir by telling people to top up for fear of running out.

Cos they are idiots.... For the most part.

I remember a tale many years ago about how a guy filled up a wheely bin full of the stuff in preparation....then stored it next to his gas cooker.....

And more importantly why the hell are people like me being told to cover this?! Jebus government strap on a pair and get a national guard!

Mild inconvenience and slight chagrin?

This exactly and the added bonus that this story will deflect the tough questioning on the cash for access scandal....

Spin you have to love it!

Well seems as though we're pretty low on fuel where I live. Reports of no diesel in most stations and little or no petrol

I won't be putting any in until Friday or Saturday, as usual, if there's any left lol.

Well there is one benefit to selling your coupé! Only me to fuel, and I don't see any queue at Greggs

Is this a Southern thing? I put petrol in my wife's car when I went out shopping this morning and petrol in my car this afternoon, when I popped out to buy all of the things I'd forgotten in the morning shop - no sign of the petrol stations being busier than usual on either visit.

Oh, and I wasn't panic buying - both cars had the fuel lights on when I stopped for petrol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17533151

Just as an interesting aside - the Govt has issued an official limit to what can safely be stored at home ???

That's really funny. How on earth would they be able to reason that a small can of petrol in the garage would be safe, whilst two would not?

Did you leave a jerry can in the outside toilet?

Actually I started my panic buying when the press started warning about the dangers of panic buying at the weekend. In this case when it comes to causing a panic, the Government are behind the times. Unfortunately with the miles I do, it doesn't matter if there's a shortage caused by greedy robbing striking tw ats a tanker driver strike or stupid panicking drivers adding £5 of fuel to the tank which will last them the next 3 months.

If I was a cynic I'd have to agree with:



In fact I am. And I do.

Edited to include the far more important story!

The revolution is coming...... "Let them eat cold pasties"

Fuel Crisis !!!

Obviously there isn't one but I am torn.

On the one hand I dont want to look like the rest of the sheep.

But on the other hand I only have a thimble full left.

what to do.....

If I run out, I can't get to work.

Shame.

So its all a ruse to defect criticism of the hot pasty tax....

I think we need a (hot pie based) revolution !

Aye, it will be an impressive sight as all of the sausage-junkies from my neck of the woods stage a massive march to Westminster, and a good thing that Queen Elizabeth hospital, 2 miles from the Angel of the North, has a cardiac unit.

I filled up on Friday night and still have around 7/8's left. Means I'll need to go and fill up the missing amount as don't want to run out!!

Ross

No diesel left in Hemel; three garages I tried closed completely... astonishingly, the only place that had fuel within ten miles of home was from Total - the company that's currently filling the North Sea up with LPG!

The *genius* in front of me put £6.31 in...

That's how much I got on tuesday for the mower I ran out mid lawn sunday. How embarrassing.

Well my petrol light has just come on and ive been to 3 Shell garages in my area, one was completely out of fuel and the other 2 only had diesel.
Luckily I dont live to far from work but I do need some V-Power and I cant get any at the minute.

Everyone has gone bonkers. I think once people drive past a petrol station and see a queue of cars they think 'Oh, I better top up' even though there are probably lots of people out there that still had plenty.

I wouldn't have made it to work and home tomorrow if I didn't fill up this evening. I put in £89 of diesel but the number of people only putting in £15 - £20 was unbelievable. I bet the majority only drive 100 miles a week too.

Yes. I do six hundred miles a week, which I can do on one tank, but I fill up every four days at 480 miles... I'd have waited till tomorrow but I had an extra trip to London this week and had 536 miles showing...

Jesus Neil I thought my 420 a week commute was bad! I filled up on Wednesday before I read in the news that nice mr Cameron's message. I did wonder why there were so many people filling up! The girl at the pump in front of me put in 8 quid odd??

On a good week around 1000 miles a week. real bad week possibly 2000. 16 of us engineers doing similar mileages.

Work is looking at a backup plan where have our own diesel storage.

A lot of people are retarded sheep, and I resent sharing the roads with them.

They are probably the same people that fill a trolley with bread and milk at the first suggestion of snow.