The whole scenario is quite amusing. We have-
People complaining about the "morons panic buying" when getting fuel themselves. How come everyone else is a moron?!
Interviews on the local radio / TV / Newspapers with "experts" or garage owners stating "There is no fuel shortage" normally shortly followed by them saying when they ran out / expect to run out. That sounds pretty short to me!
Constant miss quoting of LOL CAMERON AND THE *insert expletive* TORIES "David Cameron told everyone to go and fill up RIGHT NOW" er... did he, I must have missed that.
People becoming judge and jury on what other people do- "LOLs he only put £16 in!!1" Well... maybe they are doing a long trip and that is the difference between making it back home or not? "Selfish people filling right up, only take what you need" Maybe they 'need' to fill right up?
Round here the garages have started rationing to £20 at a time. No idea where they got that figure from but with the price of fuel these days I would class £20 as bum all really. So even if I wasn't going in to the garage every other day to squeeze a bit more in now I would have to go to the garage every other day (or more)... nice.
Oh well, the way I see it is that x amount of fuel is used per day and y amount is produced and distributed. Once everyone has their comfort blanket amount in the tank it has to go back to normal, right? Only downside I can see is busier petrol stations with people topping up often rather than filling up from empty occasionally.
