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Good plan, making the country look like a joke, putting essential services at risk.
That is smart.
It's funny how (fuel shortages)
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Good plan, making the country look like a joke, putting essential services at risk.
That is smart.
They are a heady mix of conniving/lazy/incompetent with a strong streak of personal and collective sociopathy.
They're not stupid. They just don't care about anything other than keeping power, so anything that can successfully denied, deflected or blamed on something or someone else isn't worth worrying about.
Me: "I'm not going to mow the lawn this weekend so we can keep the spare can of mower petrol. We might need that for the school run if we can't get any petrol for the car"
Wife: Mows lawn, proudly comes in to tell me she saved me a job
Me: "OK, how are we going to get the kids to school if shortages are still happening when the car is empty?"
Wife: Pikachu face
Sadly a true story
Wife: Mows lawn, proudly comes in to tell me she saved me a job
Me: "OK, how are we going to get the kids to school if shortages are still happening when the car is empty?"
Wife: Pikachu face
Sadly a true story
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Whats confusing? There wasnt a shortage but now there is...... in the same way there was a shortage of toilet roll last year for reasons I really shouldnt have to explain.
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With all the working from home heating gas/electricity is going to be in demand all day long instead of just evening and with offices half empty but still needing heating theres going to be increased demand for sure, could be a perfect storm this winter
The entire SE at least pumps are bone dry down here if anything has a delivery theres massive queues until it closes again usually on the same day
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The dominoes could fall fast if things continue to spiral....
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-fuel-issues-rochford-council-5974994
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-fuel-issues-rochford-council-5974994
This is what I can't work out. Are they wreckless or incompetent? My vote goes for both.
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can the government at least make electric scooters legal now, until the pumps are refilled 
It's different than the toilet roll thing. That was completely people and media driven. There was no problem with toilet paper supply at all.
There are however some problems with petrol supply.
This started with BP saying they were struggling to get petrol to forecourts and meeting with the government to discuss. So there was in fact, a short term shortage in supply no matter how small it was. This was reported in the media and that lit the touch paper.
Despite persistent government denials, there are other medium/longer term problems with fuel supply. Stanlow refinery for instance, which supplies around 1/6th of the country's petrol is on the brink of receivership... https://news.sky.com/story/stanlow-...ancial-crunch-as-hmrc-deadline-looms-12410388
I don't think it's either. I just don't think they quite estimated how stupid the average Brit is.
Yep. I'm in Surrey just inside the M25 and everything is out here. As soon as it's refilled it gets emptied.
But is it stupidity? A person can decide they aren't going to make the situation worse and not get any fuel but that doesn't stop everyone else emptying the pumps. Then the "sane" person is stuffed because they tried to do the right thing. It doesn't really matter whether the shortages are genuine, caused by human nature, or a combination of both. It was only ever going to end one way and trying to do the "right thing" will just result in you having no fuel while everyone else has fuel but moans about it.
If you're going to panic then panic early. Or at least panic before everyone else.
Lol. That's what they rely on.
Exactly.
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It's really all part of the government plan to get everybody to give up ICE vehicles, if there's no fuel they have no choice but to turn to Electric vehicles 
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Well it is stupidity really, as a full tank of fuel only gets you so far. That same person who rushed out to panic buy fuel will likely have to do it all again queuing 2 miles up the road for some fuel.
The situation could have been avoided if everyone was sensible and only filled up when they needed. Now the situation is 10 fold and we all will be queuing up for petrol until things get back to normal. Why do we do this to ourselves, it's like a self inflicted wound.
The situation could have been avoided if everyone was sensible and only filled up when they needed. Now the situation is 10 fold and we all will be queuing up for petrol until things get back to normal. Why do we do this to ourselves, it's like a self inflicted wound.
They still have to queue sometimesIt's really all part of the government plan to get everybody to give up ICE vehicles, if there's no fuel they have no choice but to turn to Electric vehicles
Long queues at Tesla Supercharger station raises questions about the readiness of the EV market - MSPoweruser
Thats OK, there will be power cuts this winter and everyone will want ICE again.It's really all part of the government plan to get everybody to give up ICE vehicles, if there's no fuel they have no choice but to turn to Electric vehicles
The media have a lot to answer for in my view. They shouldn't be allowed to whip up a hysteria over nothing only so they have something to report on. There's several big culprits any time there's a hint of a shortage even if it's isolated to one area they make it national news.