Just been to six petrol stations in the Oxhey/Harrow area of NW London and all were out of unleaded and in most cases diesel too, makes you sick the amount we are charged in first place then they have the cheek to not have any at all, Im totally f**ked now as the warning light came on driving round looking for petrol and I needed the car to go out tonight and tomorrow, now thats simply not going to happen

 

I was on my 125 on way home tonight, noticed the fuel was low, pulled into nearest petrol station, every pump out of unleaded

I got 1 mile further down the road, and it cut out luckily I flicked it onto reserve and it made it all the way home

 

I asked 2 of the petrol station people whens a tanker due, and the chap is a esso garage said hes been waiting 2days already as its overdue and people are panic buying fuel

 

whats going on?

 

bloody lemmings....

just heard a clip on the radio, talking to some guy in a garage, why are you here? he said, i saw a big queue to get in, so i thought i best join it...

ok, so see a load of people jumping over a cliff, oo best join em

 

its because the tanker drivers are going to strick so every one is panic buying lol i think its a good thing but for the wrong resons the country should stand togther and stop buying fuel for a week it would cost the goverment a lot of money! we all moan about fuel costs but all do fuck all about it lol the price will never change if action is not taken

 

petrol tanker drivers are due to go on strike so people are panic buying and filling up cans too

 

Havent they said on the news they are entering talks? Fucking saps

 

tossers panic buying apparently...

 

Oh the joys of people panic buying so glad I still not working in a petrol station,remember when we had the fule protests

 

lets see how many cars have their tanks drained over the next few days as it was epic last time there was a shortage, I cant even risk riving round to any more looking for fuel in case I run out

 

people who really need the fuel ,like working man, carers,etc wont be able to get any.

 

same thing happened to my mate in ricky/bushey/watford couple days ago - went to about 5 different petrol stations before we found one that had unleaded

 

That's the thing they don't need to strike to cause problems just a threat of it gets everyone filling up and they run out. I put my usual amount in last night but will only last a max of two weeks, hopefully all settled by then

 

unlike who? the huge army of people who are just out on the roads for a leisurely drive during the week to pass the time?
you cant underestimate the stupidity of the same donkeys who panic buy anything as soon as its mentioned.6 loafs of bread in the shopping basket? theyll never eat it anyway but they better buy all they can just in case they feel like a sandwich next week

 

There were arrangements made last time to allow certain people including all emergency service vehicles to keep getting fuel. I benefitted from that then and should do this time as well, but only for my company vehicle.

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99.9875383% of motorists are lazy koonts, and the thought of having to walk or cycle 50 meters or more must be frightning to them, i cycle to work as its only about 4 miles etc etc..

i do see some lazy arse who lives by my work, actually get in his car and drive to work, down the same road, about 50 meters or so... think he was there in the winter defrosting it for 10 mins then drive up the road for 10 seconds to work..

 

If I run out of fuel big deal, feet up at home for me for a few days!

Should sack the strikers, plenty of people in this country who are jobless and desperate for work.

 

It didnt help anything today when the Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude told people to fill up jerry cans if they could FFS

Secretary came in this morning and told me that her neighbour had starting to fill a wheelie bin with petrol and promptly phoned the police as she was telling me, apparently he started filling it 2 days ago with cans that he had filled when he first heard about a "possible" strike from the drivers.
Over the fence this morning he happened to let it slip that he had a "a bit spare if she needed fuel to get the kids to school"

Fooking madness!!

 

Must buy diesel.... man on telly tells me too isn't calling them jerry cans racist

 

And most of them are useless lol would you really wont them behind you in a fuel tanker (bomb if it go's wrong) but yeah they should not be aloud to strick over pay and pensions the rest of us cant we have to get on with it if we dont like working condition!

 

its not as if they are crappy paid, as HGV drivers with ADR licence can earn serious money

 

same when we go asda everything thats a quid or on offer has been raped by the time we get there,like italian tomato rolls a while back, some twat emptied the shelf so i helped myself out of his trolley when his back was turned.

 

It's not about the money this time,,apparently.

I can't work out exactly what it is about either if it's not related to money.

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My local tesco and the services are out

 

its all cobblers

 

I bet it goes up in price over the next few days - funny thing is they haven't yet called a strike and it would be more likely to be next weekend i've got half a tank in the daily and a tenners in the cossie so that will do me

 

no its about equality in working conditions in their field of work.

well they best quit now as uk government dont do equality

they are apparently earning £45k+ driving these tankers and their moaning

As said above plenty would love that job...id love that job, id drive em for 18k well happily and be financially propper well off(be a 1st) too.

Right im off to drain the sea for water.

 

to do with there safety

 

i using the rs500 went to the station fuc the waiting and got 20 litre jerry for the tdci mondeo if it gets bad will have to use the load in the saff luck there 7 cars here !

 

Excellent, so when I actually need fuel at the end of tomorrow I'm fucked!

 

The light on my van went on so went to fill it up at tesco. Queue was massive! Ah well, if i don't get diesel, people in Ayrshire & Dumfries will have no gas at home

 

my son just got in on his motorbike and said he saw one petrol station with unleaded on the way home from college and the sign read £10 of fuel only per customer and the queue was 60 cars deep each way

 

Im cycling to work as I have no fuel in the car and cant be bothered queing to fill it up

 

I guess none of you have really grasped the reason for their strikings.

Apparently, it's to do with their working conditions, i.e the condition of the tankers etc, they're saying it's not safe for them to work..
And absolutely NOTHING to do with money.

 

If there was zero chance of anyone else being hurt, then dropping a match into his personal space when he's topping up the bin would do us all a favor... what a complete and utter cunt.

He might have been on a mission to get enough rolls for all the poor kids at the local hospice?! ....or might just be one of life's wanks.


Cheers,
Grant

 

everybody is panick buying in wales bloody idiots and they havnt even gone on strike yet

 

Absolute wa*&ers brimming their cars with fuel, jerry cans the lot, old grannies who never f_-king drive anywhere squeezing as much fuel in as possible. Country is full of fu+_ing idiots. Put in what you will need and everybody gets some.