Petrol-grabbing idiots!

Right… I need some petrol today. Nothing to do with strikes. If there was no threat of a strike, I would need some today but now I can’t get any because of IDIOTS.

OK, nobody needs petrol but if I’m to take the kids to school tomorrow (no bus) and then go away for the night (booked, paid for, no cancellation, no bus or train route there) and pick the kids up from school on Friday I’m going to have to do ~70miles. Car says it has range of 59miles. I won’t go out ‘hunting’ for petrol – I go past three petrol stations on my way to/from work and I just call in and get some when I need some. One has no unleaded, one has a dangerous queue (round a corner on a single carriage A road) and the other is completely closed.

I don’t want to be an idiot and sit in a dangerous queue just because everybody else is being an idiot.

Even if the tanker drivers go on strike they have to give 7days notice. So why, in the name of Jehovah, is everyone filling up today?

(Sorry – it started out as a bit of a rant but I’ve run out of steam and now it’s a bit of a grumble)

you are not stuck in traffic.

you ARE traffic.

Aye they are….. imagine no petrol and you cannot go to work and its sunny what exactly is the problem ?

you are not stuck in traffic.

you ARE traffic.
I know.

And some of those people filling up today would have been doing so anyway. But some of them don’t need to. So they are idiots.
(and they’re inconveniencing me)

I foresee a couple of working from home days!!!!

hmmm i wasnt going to fill up any differently from normal but i’m near the redline and got couple of hundred miles to do in next 48hours…..

probably fill up on the way to work tomorrow as normal, no point adding to traffic for the sake of it

ha ha they are indeed! we all are i’m afraid

im currently in the nice position of not needing fuel again until next friday. but then i will also NEED it…

wilst i’ve dreamt of moving all the way out into the country, sometimes there are benfits to living on the edge of a city and commuting by bicycle…

oh and getting the shopping delivered!

Even if the tanker drivers go on strike they have to give 7days notice. So why, in the name of Jehovah, is everyone filling up today?

because warsi, maude and cameron are whipping people up into a frenzy about it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fuel/9170708/Fuel-tanker-strike-drivers-told-to-keep-jerry-can-of-fuel.html

Petrol strike threat: PM advises topping up

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/28/fuel-tanker-drivers-strike-cameron

so the mail can get all outraged and side with the government and try and get the current narrative onto ed milliband and the unions and away from their own funding crookedness
or perhaps its osbornes plan to get everyone filling up before the new financial year starts in april so his books will look better with all those lovely tax receipts (maybe a bit tinfoil hat)

either way the government are making this much worse than it is

hmmm i wasnt going to fill up any differently from normal but i’m near the redline and got couple of hundred miles to do in next 48hours…..

probably fill up on the way to work tomorrow as normal
Dare you risk it?

I am probably going to have to become a petrol-grabbing idiot just because everybody else has become a petrol-grabbing idiot. That’s what annoys me.

I hope there isn’t panic buying. I commute on a motorcycle with a tank not much bigger than a peanut and have to fill up every other trip into the office including tonight 🙁

Some people get so up tight when I ride past the queue, pull up behind a car at the pumps and fill up while the driver is in the shop paying. Their evil looks so upset me…..

Petrol stations seem to be fairly empty of people around here, is it a regional issue?

it’s a **** issue.

if you know there will be queues, why go in the middle of the day?

get up early or go out after tea, bet you’ll be one of the only people there.

Mrs. Pinkster is currently in Betws-y-Coed taking a minibus full of students on study tour. Apparently all the fuel stations in the area (not many, I know) are empty at the moment and she’s got to get them back to Nantwich tomorrow.

BUT THEY’LL HAVE RUN OUT BY THEN!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU MAD?!!!!! PANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!!!!!

i filled up today because the lights been on for 4+ days.

HTH

Well, I’ve been running on vapour for two days, so I’m going to go and brave the localish Tesco. Wish me luck, I’ll report back here in a bit.

[smug] I ride to work and my car currently has 250 miles in the tank[/smug]

I should probably put it in the garage tonight!

I’m with ‘thomthumb’ and ‘cougar’ running on vapour!

i filled up today because the lights been on for 4+ days.

I filled mine on Monday.. To the brim 🙂

This may be paranoid thinking, but to my mind the petrol stations here have started doing what they used to do in Australia.. Fuel prices creep up by a few pence in the week, hit a high at the weekend when everybody is filling up for trips away, and then drop again on Monday. No doubt there’ll be some similar price manipulation going on currently..

Do all those people sat queuing do so with their engines running?

I’ve been ill at home for the last 2 days and probably missed all this petrol panic malarky but have to get to gatwick at the weekend to see my ill dad and car is already on the red – am I going to have a problem?

apparently its illegal to store more than 10L in your home

can we have francis maude arrested for being a bell-end?

Has some bad news about the economy been released today showing slightly lower growth than originally forecast and so they create a panic situation with which too boost the economy?

everyones buying ready for the next riot

its da real ting innit

Kimbers +1

Has some bad news about the economy been released today showing slightly lower growth than originally forecast and so they create a panic situation with which too boost the economy?

Now that’s just being cynical 😉

I saw an old bloke the other day fill up his car and 3 jerry cans, the only shortage is going to be caused by these morons

Luckily if push comes to shove I can work from home, but some of these idiots are just going to make it worse for the people who really need to go to work (doctors, nurses, firefighters, police etc)

“people who really need to go to work (doctors, nurses, firefighters, police etc)”

I thought they got ‘priority’ last time?

If thats the case Mrs FD will be taking my car to the petrol station too 🙂

Oh and I commute 100 miles daily, fill up 1 x per week…

So we’re talking about the possible chance of tanker drivers going on strike, which might make petrol expensive for a while?

*thinks*

Right now we’ve got state sponsored murder going on in Syria, we’ve got a flatlining economy and this government are going to hike fuel taxes by 3p a litre in a few months. Oh and there’s some nasty business about two-tier democracy going on, whereby if you’re wealthy you get to have dinner with the PM and if you’re not, your local MP tells you to get stuffed because it’s all to do with the defecit innit.

Priorities ladies and gentlemen…indeed, were it not for me being banned from the bike on doctor’s orders, I’d be out riding in them sunny hills using precisely no petrol whatsoever for the remainder of the warm wave at least.

[shocked at people in general] Apparently, several petrol stations in North Liverpool are out of fuel already. [/shocked at people in general]

were it not for me being banned from the bike on doctor’s orders, I’d be out riding in them sunny hills using precisely no petrol whatsoever for the remainder of the warm wave at least.

+1

The lemmings are out in their cars, and I want to be away from the lemmings.

I’d be out riding in them sunny hills using precisely no petrol whatsoever for the remainder of the warm wave at least

That’s certainly working for me this week 😀

Oh, it’s Maude’s fault is it?

Hateful twerp.

Maude does seem to be Call-me-Daves human shield at the moment. You totter off out there and be abused by everyone on my behalf, there’s a good chap

Damn – what do I do after work….

rush and fill the car up, or go to the gunshop and buy more Ammo?

i filled up today because the lights been on for 4+ days.

hang on….
light on = ~30 – 50miles left maybe?
4 days, therefore conservative estimate means you do < 10miles per day

so why aren’t you riding instead 😛

I’d been on an overseas holiday when the last great petrol strike occurred with no knowledge what was going on (as I avoid TV/newspapers generally).

Got on the flight back home and was sitting over a wing so a stewardess cabin crew was sat facing me for take off.

CC “you back to work on Monday?”

Me “yes”

CC (smuggly) “you probably won’t be cos there’s a strike and you can’t get petrol”

Me (much MUCH more smugglly) “I commute by cycle and don’t own a car, ner ner”.

Forget the fuel, food is where its at!

Stocking up on beans, beer & wet wipes tonight……;-)

jesus i’d be ashamed enough of that smarmy air hostess shite talk the first time that i don’t think i’d repeat it for a second.

there’s a reason folks dislike cyclists.

beans, beer & wet wipes

Wow – that’s a sophisticated night in, except you forgot the strawberry Angel Delight. 😉