Panic buying at the pumps

[champion7]

f***ing hell Lush!! £20 :thud:

Last time i filled up my Mondeo was £85 in diesel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jesus christ graham my mondeo holds £100, it cost me that 2day as i run out about half a mile from sainsburys

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

As someone said, if the media didn't mention it there wouldn't be an issue. But it's their way of writing a story to create more stories by reporting the effects.

 

[Collar Feeler]

Ooooh its the seventies all over again, lets have some power cuts and 3 day weeks and strikes and riots. That'll keep me busy! While we're at it lets resume animal exports from shoreham and start building a friggin great road through the downs at Falmer. Re-open the monkey farm at small dole too and increase production at EDO MBM, overtime coming out of me ears..lovely.

 

[andybaha]

Just filled up our Espace - £105.00.

There was a fuel scare a couple of months ago and I had a courtesy car. Collect it with a full tank and return it with a full tank. I had to queue up with all the other old bastards and put seven quids worth of petrol in it before I could take it back. I felt a sudden urge to own a pair of driving gloves and a flat cap.

 

[steward 433]

Filled up last thing last night

Had a meeting in Reading today and filled up just now

£27 in one trip not even that far :thud:

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Ooooh its the seventies all over again, lets have some power cuts and 3 day weeks and strikes and riots. That'll keep me busy! While we're at it lets resume animal exports from shoreham and start building a friggin great road through the downs at Falmer. Re-open the monkey farm at small dole too and increase production at EDO MBM, overtime coming out of me ears..lovely.

 

[Gwylan]

As someone said, if the media didn't mention it there wouldn't be an issue. But it's their way of writing a story to create more stories by reporting the effects.

This is just nonsense: if the media hadn't reported the strike and drivers found out that a petrol station had no supplies because of the industrial action, the media would have got blamed for keeping quiet about it.

By any criterion of news worthiness, a four day strike by drivers working for one of the UK's largest companies, delivering supplies of a commodity essential for everyday life, is a valid news story.

I'd agree with you if the media were saying things like "Drivers set to be deprived of petrol" or "Severe fuel shortages ahead" but I've read reports in four different places and not one of them said anything like that: they all reported that the strike was going ahead and that drivers shouldn't panic. The media can't be blamed for people acting like idiots.

 

[sten_super]

Just to back up my earlier point, union officials have warned that the "dispute will carry on until Shell comes to the table".

BBC NEWS | Business | 'Don't panic-buy' motorists urged

This despite the fact that they have been offered a £5,000 increase to the average wage. Bunch of wankers.

 

[Robbie G]

Daily Express Front Page Article

Well stories like this surely won't help!

 

[bigc]

Daily Express Front Page Article

Well stories like this surely won't help!

It's like they have a vested interest in causing chaos!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Funny word though "Panic". People do not read the words around it.

 

[Gully]

Ooooh its the seventies all over again, lets have some power cuts and 3 day weeks and strikes and riots. That'll keep me busy! While we're at it lets resume animal exports from shoreham and start building a friggin great road through the downs at Falmer. Re-open the monkey farm at small dole too and increase production at EDO MBM, overtime coming out of me ears..lovely.

Bloody hell CF, you don't want much do you...I am surprised you haven't thrown in a miners strike for good measure...if you got your wish the whole of Sussex would need to join the Police force!