Petrol tanker drivers to go on strike

lordrobs · 30 Mar 2012 at 16:37

Simon said:
You are an engineer?

Sort of, Electronic Engineering graduate but have worked in education (training / supporting education in Design Technology and Engineering) since leaving uni.

EDIT- Just realised that I haven't updated my public profile for over 5 years

DiCe! · 30 Mar 2012 at 16:43

ci_newman said:
But £20 is barely 15 litres, even less with diesel. In my case, that's a 1/3 of a tank and around 100 miles.

that £20 can take someone from under 1/4 of a tank to over 1/2 in a small car and that can be a nice round trip over the weekend though.

Its the people filling up and then know that the car is going to be sat on the drive all weekend with a 30 minute commute next week that are the real idiots.

Simon · 30 Mar 2012 at 16:48

lordrobs said:
Sort of, Electronic Engineering graduate but have worked in education (training / supporting education in Design Technology and Engineering) since leaving uni.

EDIT- Just realised that I haven't updated my public profile for over 5 years

Logic was evident in post.

lordrobs · 30 Mar 2012 at 16:51

[TW]Fox;21585448 said:
Presumably:

a) Those buying fuel with the same pattern as usual = not morons
b) Those rushing out to buy fuel randomly = morons

The two people in front of me today both put less than £20 in...

But maybe that is their regular pattern?

I'm not saying that there isn't some kind of change to peoples buying patterns, that is obvious, but just that everyone seems to think that their need for fuel is a genuine one where as everyone else must just be stockpiling for the sake of it.

At the end of the day if I was in a position where I was genuinely worried that I wouldn't be able to get to work due to a shortage of fuel then I too would be sat in a queue. The reason that I'm not? Well, firstly I see this as a ripple in demand vs supply, secondly I have a fair chunk of fuel left to see out what I guestimate to be the duration of the disruption.

Rybo89 · 30 Mar 2012 at 16:54

I put £20 in earlier. I am not a panick buyer, i am a tight ******* who don't want to have to much petrol in tank in case someone eventually buys or trades in my car lol.

Merlin5 · 30 Mar 2012 at 19:29

Someone rang LBC to tell James Whale that last night, a garage in Heston, not sure if it was Heston Services itself, was charging £1.56 a litre for diesel. What a joke. These garages are doing some serious profiteering.

Clarkey · 30 Mar 2012 at 19:38

Merlin5 said:
Someone rang LBC to tell James Whale that last night, a garage in Heston, not sure if it was Heston Services itself, was charging £1.56 a litre for diesel. What a joke. These garages are doing some serious profiteering.

That's a normal price for motorway services surely.

GTAMADDOG · 30 Mar 2012 at 19:58

The local is still £1.46 for diesel despite the mass influx of people yesterday and the day before, it looked like business as normal in there (open and pumping fuel, but no stupid long queues) when I drove past on my way home.

Think one day this weekend if it looks quiet enough I might pop in and fill up, saying that I usually fill up on a Sunday anyway.

Merlin5 · 30 Mar 2012 at 20:45

Clarkey said:
That's a normal price for motorway services surely.

Now that you mention it, yes, you're right. And don't call me surely.

MrMoonX · 30 Mar 2012 at 20:50

Local one has run out but OMG the price 150.9 for derv and 143.9 for petrol, robbing ****

The_Abyss · 30 Mar 2012 at 20:55

Joe T said:
Different tax years though. Short-sighted organisations (there are many out there) often try to make one year look better, while making the next year's target even harder to reach.

HM Treasury does not report on tax years. Businesses do, and only some of them - they have their own financial reporting dates.

UK PLC is measured over Quarters. Nothing to do with tax years, plus the tax regime to fuel is not changing between tax years to adjust revenue.

DBT85 · 30 Mar 2012 at 21:08

MrMoonX said:
Local one has run out but OMG the price 150.9 for derv and 143.9 for petrol, robbing ****

Supply and demand. There isn't enough supply to meet the panic buying demand so they are making more money on it. Every company does it, OCUK included.

Mackass · 30 Mar 2012 at 21:18

Does anyone know if Tesco pay at pumps are operating at night? Plan to head out around midnight to save queuing in the daytime.

Jokester · 30 Mar 2012 at 21:20

Mackass said:
Does anyone know if Tesco pay at pumps are operating at night? Plan to head out around midnight to save queuing in the daytime.

My local Morrisons Pay at the Pumps is switched off when the petrol station shop is closed.

lordrobs · 30 Mar 2012 at 21:51

They should be marked as 24hr pumps if they are always on. Our local Tesco is 24hr but I wouldn't expect it to be empty... Unless the pump is dry.

batfink · 30 Mar 2012 at 21:53

Today made me realise just how selfish 90% of this country is. I'm running low on petrol so tried to get some this morning on the way to work. Local petrol stations were sold out.

My 2 year old daughter was rushed to hospital around 10am. (I wasn't expecting this so couldn't plan for it). I didn't have enough petrol to get to the hospital so had to park up, get the train and then a 15 mins walk at the other end to A&E. Spent all day in hospital and she was finally released this evening. Cue another (much slower) walk back to the train station with me carrying my daughter, in pain, still dressed in her pyjamas, with nothing on her feet and no coat (like I said, we weren't expecting her to end up in the back of an ambulance rushing to hospital).

So, thanks very much to the "great" British public. Let's hope we don't have to go back tomorrow because I have no fuel in my car and i can't get any either thanks to all the selfish morons out there.

Draeger · 30 Mar 2012 at 22:04

I dunno if this has already been posted but quite simply, WTF?. Some folk shouldn't be allowed out on their own :-

"A lady about 75 was seen filling up 20 empty one-gallon paint tins with plastic lids and also a tray of jam jars in her boot with petrol. She had her boot up so the petrol station staff couldn't see what she was doing.

"AA staff went over to her to stop her. Then station staff came out and prevented her from what she was doing. Her excuse was that 'her husband did it every week'," the organisation said.

Another man was seen at the same petrol station filling one gallon washing-up liquid bottles with fuel.

Sauce - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...icid=maing-grid7|uk|dl1|sec1_lnk2&pLid=102651

.:MBK:. · 30 Mar 2012 at 22:06

my local is empty for the 3rd day on the trot...would have thought most of the panic buying customers would have been done by now

BuToNz · 30 Mar 2012 at 22:17

batfink said:
Today made me realise just how selfish 90% of this country is. I'm running low on petrol so tried to get some this morning on the way to work. Local petrol stations were sold out.

My 2 year old daughter was rushed to hospital around 10am. (I wasn't expecting this so couldn't plan for it). I didn't have enough petrol to get to the hospital so had to park up, get the train and then a 15 mins walk at the other end to A&E. Spent all day in hospital and she was finally released this evening. Cue another (much slower) walk back to the train station with me carrying my daughter, in pain, still dressed in her pyjamas, with nothing on her feet and no coat (like I said, we weren't expecting her to end up in the back of an ambulance rushing to hospital).

So, thanks very much to the "great" British public. Let's hope we don't have to go back tomorrow because I have no fuel in my car and i can't get any either thanks to all the selfish morons out there.

THIS. Is what people don't think about, stuff peoples Easter Holidays away. Hate to think how this country would be if we were faced with a real war, hell were forgetting the Armageddon last year with those youth gangs.

mufc802 · 30 Mar 2012 at 22:33

batfink said:
Today made me realise just how selfish 90% of this country is. I'm running low on petrol so tried to get some this morning on the way to work. Local petrol stations were sold out.

My 2 year old daughter was rushed to hospital around 10am. (I wasn't expecting this so couldn't plan for it). I didn't have enough petrol to get to the hospital so had to park up, get the train and then a 15 mins walk at the other end to A&E. Spent all day in hospital and she was finally released this evening. Cue another (much slower) walk back to the train station with me carrying my daughter, in pain, still dressed in her pyjamas, with nothing on her feet and no coat (like I said, we weren't expecting her to end up in the back of an ambulance rushing to hospital).

So, thanks very much to the "great" British public. Let's hope we don't have to go back tomorrow because I have no fuel in my car and i can't get any either thanks to all the selfish morons out there.

That's really sad and I completely agree with you about how selfish people are. All they care about is themselves and having a full tank of fuel without the slightest consideration of someone like yourself who genuinely needs to fill up their tank and has a genuine reason for needing the car.