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

[Guinness Boy]

Queues around the car park at Sainsbury, Faversham.

It's my genuine hope that one of these queuing bellends has gone out because they are on fumes and burnt off the fumes in the queue, with the resulting breakdown keeping all the other queuing cars stationary until the RAC can find a way to rescue him.

Bonus points if they're all Brexiteers.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Us electric car owners in full Smug Mode this weekend

 

[A mex eyecan]

Us electric car owners in full Smug Mode this weekend

electricity cuts all over europe commencing tonight. only diluted strength electricity available until Christmas,

 

[Brighton & Love]

Breaking news just in from the Argus: Locadia is low on end product. His agent blames it on a lack of service. Anyone interested needs to be warned of the long queues and road congestion caused by his demand.

 

[Guinness Boy]

That has to be good news, what with your dripping O ring.


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That's the second thread you've posted that on. You seem to have a lot of, shall we say, intimate biological knowledge. Have you put a CCTV in his Kermit?

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Went at 7am this morning as needed some anyway and put a full tank in on payday as normal.

Queues everywhere this morning

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[A1X]

Just shows the power of the media in how they can tell us to panic through headlines such as "Don't Panic, everything will be OK!" so then we have a nation panicking to the bone causing mayhem everywhere.

I wonder if the media have ever been capable of stirring up nationwide stress like this before?

Pasta, bog rolls and flour 18 months ago?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

electricity cuts all over europe commencing tonight. only diluted strength electricity available until Christmas,

Mine's only a small i3. I only need mid-strength

 

[nickbrighton]

The media needs more regulation.

This kind of sensationalism is dangerous.

It's created a problem where there wasn't one.

There should really be repercussions - but even the BBC wasn't innocent of this, having been pinged on my phone in the morning warning of an issue.

I think there should be a public enquiry into the media's role in both the Pandemic and now the reporting of various shortages

I am convinced that much of the confusion and problems with the lockdown and now fuel shortages were caused by the mainstream media deliberately sensationalising, and looking for eye catching headlines , and point scoring against the Government rather than trying to help the situation by providing clear and concise guidance and information.

The BBC long ago lost any pretence of impartial reporting and the majority of other news outlets weren't impartial to start with, its simply now a race to grab the headline and clicks and be damned with factual, informative helpful reporting.

The Media should not be just a mouthpiece for Government, but Public Broadcasters at least should have a duty to to be honest, and impartial , not to be going out of their way to sensationalise, and create fear and panic.

Shame on them all

 

[jakarta]

Pasta, bog rolls and flour 18 months ago?

I added some mince and tomatoes, it was a bit chewy but tasted OK...

 

[doogie004]

I queued up this morning and filled up even though I work from home. Why?

1) I was nearly on empty and
2) I am undergoing chemo and have several medical appointments each fortnight that I have to drive to.

Want to swap places??

Don't always assume that you have the greater need.

I wish You all the best but there are people out there that do fill up for the sake of it rather than when needed


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[Badger]

I'm hiring a car in the UK in November. Can someone put some petrol aside for me?

 

[nicko31]

The media needs more regulation.

This kind of sensationalism is dangerous.

It's created a problem where there wasn't one.

There should really be repercussions - but even the BBC wasn't innocent of this, having been pinged on my phone in the morning warning of an issue.

With the government trying to make Paul Dacre head of Ofcom I think regulation is the last thing on their mind

 

[A mex eyecan]

Mine's only a small i3. I only need mid-strength

hey Stumpy, i’m hoping that’s your car you’re referring to …

 

[Worthing exile]

I wish You all the best but there are people out there that do fill up for the sake of it rather than when needed


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Thanks for your wishes and yes I agree.

While I was queueing, the car in front realised he was blocking the entrance to Tesco Express so waved a woman through (in a gardening van) but she just queue jumped and joined the petrol queue. Obviously thought being self employed, she had some kind of priority.

This will probably all be over in a couple of days but it just boils down to retailers wanting to sell stock but they don't care who to otherwise they would put fair limits in place.

 

[MJsGhost]

Some of the smarter panic buyers at least enjoying themselves earlier:

 

[Baker lite]

That's the second thread you've posted that on. You seem to have a lot of, shall we say, intimate biological knowledge. Have you put a CCTV in his Kermit?

He often screams for a plumber to rush round and have butchers at his dripping valve.

 

[Brighton & Love]

The media needs more regulation.

It all just needs to be exposed.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I think there should be a public enquiry into the media's role in both the Pandemic and now the reporting of various shortages

I am convinced that much of the confusion and problems with the lockdown and now fuel shortages were caused by the mainstream media deliberately sensationalising, and looking for eye catching headlines , and point scoring against the Government rather than trying to help the situation by providing clear and concise guidance and information.

The BBC long ago lost any pretence of impartial reporting and the majority of other news outlets weren't impartial to start with, its simply now a race to grab the headline and clicks and be damned with factual, informative helpful reporting.

The Media should not be just a mouthpiece for Government, but Public Broadcasters at least should have a duty to to be honest, and impartial , not to be going out of their way to sensationalise, and create fear and panic.

Shame on them all

It is indeed sensationalised, and it has indeed led to people panic-buying fuel - BUT the fuel supply had already started to run out before the headlines were published because of logistics problems, and it is a problem that, if not necessarily of this government's making, certainly one that they have appeared to ignore until now. I posted earlier on this thread the first couple of paragraphs from the FT's article about impending problems due to a shortage of lorry drivers, an article published on the 9th May this year https://www.ft.com/content/4d6b3be1-...5-91da326cabdc

"An exodus of EU lorry drivers from the UK since Brexit has left the British haulage and logistics industry facing an acute staff shortage and a looming crisis for industrial and retail deliveries, the sector has warned.

Industry associations and leading UK freight companies said that unless urgent steps were taken to address shortages, strains now visible within the industry would become evident to the public by the end of the summer."

Read that last line again - this has been on the radar of those who can do something about it for over four months. And yet it is only today, after supplies are running out and people are queuing round the block for petrol, that the Transport Minister announces all these new measures to speed up testing for HGV drivers.

If they'd actually done their job, responded to the calls in the spring from industry associations and freight companies to do something about it, then maybe we wouldn't have these shortages today, and hence wouldn't have these headlines in the papers.

 

[Mr Bridger]