[News] There's no need to panic buy petrol

[southstandandy]

Umm….so all people queueing for fuel are imbeciles….right

No but many are. Just walked along Manor road in Lancing to the Co-op for a loaf of bread and queued behind half a dozen people paying for fuel. The two people in front of me put in £6 and the other £10's worth - why? There is no maximum limit. Why queue down the road to put a few quids worth in?

 

[A1X]

Driving past all these imbeciles queueing for fuel makes me certain they have all the toilet roll and pasta from last year.

Hi everyone, just letting you know I’ll be collecting a new car today which will almost certainly actually need fuel, so if you see me queueing for some please exclude me from your judgements. Ta.

 

[LamieRobertson]

No but many are. Just walked along Manor road in Lancing to the Co-op for a loaf of bread and queued behind half a dozen people paying for fuel. The two people in front of me put in £6 and the other £10's worth - why? There is no maximum limit. Why queue down the road to put a few quids worth in?

So we agree not all in a queue are imbeciles and a lot of people are being judgemental

 

[drew]

Tell your Boss that due to the stupidity of everyone else you can't fill up your car and suggest a WFH week?

It's simple, if you don't need petrol for your job then don't fill up but for those of us that do, and there are probably many, we'll be in the queue so we can earn a living. That doesn't make us imbeciles.

 

[drew]

No but many are. Just walked along Manor road in Lancing to the Co-op for a loaf of bread and queued behind half a dozen people paying for fuel. The two people in front of me put in £6 and the other £10's worth - why? There is no maximum limit. Why queue down the road to put a few quids worth in?

Don't you mean 'minimum' charge?

 

[The Clamp]

People are such *****. On the bus home after a 15 hour night shift, coming into Shoreham from Brighton and that small petrol station on the right as you enter the high street had a queue backing all the way to Norfolk bridge. Okay, whatever. But in our lane, heading west there was a dolly bird in Clio and a workman in his van stopped in our lane trying to push onto the forecourt past the queue. Refusing to move until someone let them push in. As a result the traffic from my bus back was stuck as these selfish ******** tried to get into the petrol station. A few of us asked the bus driver to let us off so we could go and challenge them but he wouldn’t open the doors. Probably for the best. 20 mins we sat there while the selfish pricks tried to push in. Until a reluctantly selfless driver saw they were causing huge tailbacks and let them bully their way onto the forecourt.
The police should be moving these morons on.

And…relax.

 

[Jack Straw]

Avoid going to Woodingdean from Bear Road. People queueing for fuel by the Downs Hotel have caused gridlock and the line of cars stretches back to just before Wilson Avenue. Luckily, I was travelling the other way.

 

[jakarta]

I have at least 6 London Sites I need to visit to do work shortly. Have today informed my Client I can't promise to get there, well done fvckwits....

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Just driven back from hayling island, probably 80% of stations closed ffs

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[drew]

Retailors work and decide on stock levels based on algorithms and projected sales to guide how much stock to hold, a sudden spike in sales causes that to fail and leads to the shortages we've seen

There would still have been enough toilet rolls for everyone without that panic buying at the start of the pandemic as they were being supplied to supermarkets at the same rate as non pandemic supplies.

The difference was that people panicked, brought up far more stock than they traditionally would have just so they could hoard it in case, and that led to the shortage. Without that change in buying pattern, everyone would have been able to buy as normal.

Compare that to the fuel situation, if everyone just kept on buying as normal, everyone needing fuel would still be able to get it as and when they need it. Instead we have a situation where people who genuinely need it for work, etc will find it very hard to get fuel (in the short term) as the stocks at supermarkets which would have lasted until their next delivery have instead been snapped up far quicker, meaning they run dry and have to close. Normal buying patterns wouldn't have led to those forecourt closures

By it being brought at far higher rate than normal, at that has caused the severe shortages many retailors now have rather than the lack of tanker drivers, the same as what happened with toilet rolls

Irrational behaviour is the cause of both

I understand what you say about stock levels etc but this is really different to the toilet roll example because people could buy a years supply of toilet rolls but you can still only buy one tank of petrol. If there really is no problem with distribution then the issue should be resolved within about a week as deliveries restock forecourts.

Problem is, who do you believe? BP won't say how many of their forecourts were closed (and this was before the BBC report) and neither will Esso. They say it's only a small number so why then not just say what that number is to reassure people?

There is an issue with distribution that has been growing and yes the much higher demand over the last two days is exacerbating that but you have to ask why, when they industry has apparently been warning the Government for months, nothing has been done until the crisis is here.

 

[sparkie]

It’s closed due to planned maintenance, nothing to do with fuel queue’s [emoji106]


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You've sailed past the point, lol.

The flyover was planned maintenence. The Total Gridlock for eastbound traffic on the diversion was something else. 90 minutes to go half a mile. Then the traffic started moving again.

I suspect ( not 100% ) that it was queueing to get in the petrol station at the roundabout. The petrol station was closed when the eventually moving traffic went on by.

 

[origigull]

You've sailed past the point, lol.

The flyover was planned maintenence. The Total Gridlock for eastbound traffic on the diversion waw something else. 90 minutes to go half a mile. Then the traffic started moving again.

I suspect ( not 100% ) that it was queueing to get in the petrol station at the roundabout. The petrol station was closed when the eventually moving traffic went on by.

The Tesco petrol station at Shoreham was also closed yesterday as well.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Having been put off by the half mile long queue in Woodingdean, used the vogue gyratory station this morning. Easy-peasy, contrary to my expectations, 5 minute queuing max, and I wonder if that was because most people were put off by the horrific prospect of queuing around the gyratory.

NB my low petrol warning was on, and I only half filled the tank so as not to be greedy, so I don't consider myself a panic buyer.

NNB I blame Bozza for creating the problem by starting this thread in the first place.

 

[sparkie]

The Tesco petrol station at Shoreham was also closed yesterday as well.

Something was totally blocking the eastbound diversion this morning for 90 minutes before the blockage was removed. Only guesswork as to what that was.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Having been put off by the half mile long queue in Woodingdean, used the vogue gyratory station this morning. Easy-peasy, contrary to my expectations, 5 minute queuing max, and I wonder if that was because most people were put off by the horrific prospect of queuing around the gyratory.

NB my low petrol warning was on, and I only half filled the tank so as not to be greedy, so I don't consider myself a panic buyer.

NNB I blame Bozza for creating the problem by starting this thread in the first place.

Not sure this helps. Won’t you be back in the queue for petrol more quickly than if you had filled up ?

 

[B-right-on]

Not sure this helps. Won’t you be back in the queue for petrol more quickly than if you had filled up ?

It's that kind of thinking that's causing the problem. People filling up more than they need.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Not sure this helps. Won’t you be back in the queue for petrol more quickly than if you had filled up ?

No, because in the current climate I'll use my car more sparingly. I can make half a tank last a few weeks.

 

[portlock seagull]

oh the irony

Thanks for that, totally uncalled for and why I stayed away from NSC because of a handful of posters like you that always get ‘personal’ without reason. Bullying. In a nutshell. Perhaps time to disappear for good.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

So what is the solution? I still have to get to work next week.

Buy your fuel in the normal pattern ? Unfortunately for you there's stupid selfish w@nkers who aren't doing so.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

It's that kind of thinking that's causing the problem. People filling up more than they need.

Do you seriously think to yourself I need fifteen quids worth of petrol ? Over the last 35 years I have always filled my tank and then I go back when it needs refilling. Perfectly normal and that really isn’t causing the problem. Keeps me out of the queues. I would hazard a guess that the problem is coming from people queuing who are buying small amounts of petrol which means less staggered purchases.