Fuel price discussion thread (was ‘chaos’)

Needed to fill the thirsty C63 this evening. My usual Shell was out of everything but thankfully one up the road still had petrol (but no diesel). For 10pm at night in a fairly rural spot it was surprisingly busy. Got chatting to the owner of a very pretty classic roller who said he'd been to 8 before finding one with petrol, ahead of a wedding tomorrow. Can't imagine that'll be fun doing 8mpg if this panic buying continues.
 
This is going to hit diesel much harder as that is what most things on the road (and off the road) are using. There is still petrol (especially super) around.
 
OK so not necessarily misinformation that I gave about jerry cans, you can't fill a proper one up as it's 20 litres capacity. You can fill two 10L metal cans and two 5L plastic cans at the same time. The grey area is transporting them home by car as if police were to stop you, they could say it's a dangerous load. You can store 30 litres at home in the correct cans, in a shed or a garage or if it's outside it must be no more than 6 metres from your house (can't understand that last one in the case of somebody having a lot of land to use).
 
I have a small 5l can of petrol in the garage. Bought it last year when I was cleaning an EGR valve, but only used a small amount. Probably over a year old now, but might be worth a fortune in the morning. Might see if I can go sell it to someone sitting in a queue at the local station.
 
Only had 15 miles left in the mini which need for work commute next week so ventured out as couldnt be bothered with the queues on way back home esrlier but didn't want to spend next 2 days faffing around looking for fuel as things get worse with garages waiting for fuel deliveries.

Local morrisons had sold out of unleaded so diesel only. One garage which was a nearby esso which had a £30 cap on fuel purchases but didn't look like they had closed any pumps.

Filled up at a shell that was also operating as norm bit obviously busier then normal. This one was only a few p more then supermarket so hadnt jacked prices up yet!

Got to presume that this will be a weekend blip and things will normalise over coming week? Unlike toilet roll, unless you have jerry cans theres only so much fuel you can stockpile on your person so once car is filled that person won't be going back.

Wont need to fill up myself now for a couple of weeks hopefully.
 
http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/petrolprices.html


Petrol Prices 1983-2021
Year Price per Litre (p) Price per Gallon (£) Retail
Prices
Index Petrol Price
in constant terms
(1983=100) 5-year
% increase *
1983 36.7 1.670 83.1 100.0 -
1984 38.7 1.759 87.5 100.0 -
1985 42.8 1.946 92.8 104.3 -
1986 38.2 1.737 96.7 89.4 -
1987 37.8 1.719 100.6 85.0 -
1988 34.7 1.578 104.1 75.4 -5.5
1989 38.4 1.746 112.3 77.4 -0.7
1990 40.2 1.828 121.4 74.9 -6.1
1991 39.5 1.796 131.4 68.0 3.4
1992 40.3 1.832 136.7 66.7 6.6
1993 45.9 2.087 139.3 74.6 32.3
1994 48.9 2.223 133.1 77.6 27.3
1995 50.9 2.314 147.5 78.1 26.6
1996 52.9 2.405 151.5 79.0 33.9
1997 57.9 2.632 155.4 84.3 43.7
1998 60.9 2.769 160.8 85.7 32.7
1999 61.9 2.814 164.1 85.3 26.6
2000 76.9 3.496 168.4 103.3 51.1
2001 77.9 3.541 173.1 101.8 47.2
2002 69.9 3.178 174.5 90.6 20.7
2003 77.9 3.541 179.9 98.0 27.9
2004 77.9 3.541 184.6 95.5 25.8
2005 79.9 3.632 190.5 95.0 3.9
2006 88.9 4.041 195.0 103.2 14.1
2007 87.9 3.996 204.4 97.4 25.6
2008 103.9 4.723 212.1 110.9 33.4
2009 89.9 4.087 211.3 96.2 15.4
2010 111.9 5.087 220.7 114.8 40.1
2011 129.9 5.905 232.5 126.5 46.1
2012 134.1 6.096 240.8 126.1 52.6
2013 138.9 6.314 248.7 126.5 33.7
2014 130.9 5.951 254.8 116.3 45.6
2015 109.9 4.996 257.1 96.8 -1.8
2016 103.9 4.723 261.1 90.0 -20.0
2017 117.9 5.360 269.3 99.1 -12.1
2018 115.9 5.269 278.3 94.3 -16.6
2019 119.9 5.451 285.1 95.1 -8.4
2020 119.9 5.451 292.6 92.7 9.1
2021 123.9 5.632 296.9 94.4 19.2
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Just taken the dog out for a walk. Our local Shell has had it's tanks completely emptied.
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The shell down the road they were queueing up all the way down the street at 10.30pm don't know how much longer they'll stay open but I can't see anywhere having any fuel left tomorrow.

Got some earlier thought I'd go to the texaco thats tucked away out the way... took nearly an hour to drive 50 yards to get in there. Police even turned up at one point. That revealed another issue that my battery went flat in the queue a couple of lads gave me a shove to bump start it so now as well as having to be aware of fuel I've now got to get a new battery asap and hope it doesn't conk out in the meantime. One guy in a Scania truck cab no trailer was there longer than me and by the he got to the pumps I think they were out of diesel poor bugger
 
Got 2 cars out front on a quarter of a tank each, don't do that many miles so will just wait it out for 4/5 days. Guessing the mongo's will have got their fill by then :)
 
Mr crowley said:
OK so not necessarily misinformation that I gave about jerry cans, you can't fill a proper one up as it's 20 litres capacity. You can fill two 10L metal cans and two 5L plastic cans at the same time. The grey area is transporting them home by car as if police were to stop you, they could say it's a dangerous load. You can store 30 litres at home in the correct cans, in a shed or a garage or if it's outside it must be no more than 6 metres from your house (can't understand that last one in the case of somebody having a lot of land to use).
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20L metal jerry cans are perfectly legal according to the HSE.

It's probably the petrol station themselves that have set their own rules or the person behind the counter is misinformed. Even the colour of the container has no restrictions but the general custom and practice is that green is used for unleaded petrol and black for diesel.

Source: https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/portabable-petrol-storage-containers.pdf
 
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