Fuel Panic!

[S2red]

Just been in to fuel up daughters car 3 garages Q'd out onto road eventually got a quiet one two folk in front of me paying 14 litres then £10 WHY? Me £72

Hopefully by weekend all the panic merchants will have a full tank and garages will get back to normal but more than likely they'll come back for another £5 worth ARGH!

[Nicholas Blair]

complete muppets IMHO

[Andrew[MG]]

What's it like out there? Think I have an empty tank

[young_bairn]

I filled up at earls gate roundabout in Falkirk this morning and it was fine.

[a11y_m]

young_bairn said:

I filled up at earls gate roundabout in Falkirk this morning and it was fine.

A work colleague's just back from Stirling - she tried to fill up on the way out of Falkirk but 3 garages were dry of diesel: the one near the Coop in Carron, the one just off the roundabout at the motorway junction in Larbert, and one other that I've forgotten. She eventually got diesel at Morrisons in Stirling but only after queuing for 15min. Bloody idiots causing this.

I've got 1/3 of a tank in the Z4 which pretty much renders it useless, and approx 1/2 tank in the campervan with a holiday planned next week. Flipping fantastic.

[VetteG]

They were queueing out to the main road at Tesco in Corstorphine Edinburgh! Agree, they are muppets!

G

[tonytifoso]

young_bairn said:

I filled up at earls gate roundabout in Falkirk this morning and it was fine.

Not surprised at their prices

AndrewMG said:

My tank is empty

And so is the kitty now!


Mrs T and I are off up North at the weekend, so I hope the craziness hasn't spread up there (especially with the fuel consumption of the Focus, mightn't make it back home!)

[Papa Hotel]

VetteG said:

They were queueing out to the main road at Tesco in Corstorphine Edinburgh! Agree, they are muppets!

G

I was there about half 12, they were queued to the roundabout, hadn't made it as far as the main road at that time. Chumps.

[S2red]

At lunchtime Shell in Bishopbriggs was busy as was other two in Springburn Road

Shell in Alexandria Parade drove straight in

[SSC!]

I was hoping to use it as an excuse to fill the tank of the Stang today as I am on week 5 of a 6 week driving ban from the doctor after c-section, but "miss organised me" filled the bloody tank before Elise made her way into the world!!


Dammit!! One just more week to go!!!

[Parsnip]

Half a tank in the Zed, so that will probably be good for 10 or 12 miles

Couldn't believe the queue at Sainsbury's last night - want to laugh at the muppets for panic buying, but when it finally comes to queueing all day to fill the tank and finding the pump is dry, I guess I will be a little less cheerful about the situation

[A.J.M]

Both BP stations in airdrie are out of petrol.
Diesels fine though so brimmed the bucket, sneaky bandits stuck 3p on the price.
Was under 1/4 tank anyway so might as well.

[paulqv]

will soon be seeing people use frying oil in place of diesel and breaking into Micras to steal all the petrol in their tanks!

Does anyone on here use a mass public transportation systems where one gets a transient seat occupation permit in exchange for a non refundable deposit?

Paul
xx

[KB_S1]

A.J.M said:

Both BP stations in airdrie are out of petrol.
Diesels fine though so brimmed the bucket, sneaky bandits stuck 3p on the price.
Was under 1/4 tank anyway so might as well.

Shell at Shotts is fine if you are in dire need.

I just went on as I was passing, needing petrol anyway. Didn't seem any different to usual.

[F3RNANDO]

paulqv said:

mass public transportation

Have you seen some of the mass public........that's why cars are popular with the monied classes.

[sjabrown]

Fine around Fort William.

Folk will regret telling me I'm mad for owning 4 cars: 4 cars means 4 tanks of fuel.

[FamilyDub]

FFS, if people stopped panic buying garages wouldn't be running dry.

[Ian974]

Stuck some juice in the car after work to run out to the garage tomorrow. No queue, a good slug of v power and I was away!

[mv6]

I'm heading to the Outer Hebrides tommorrow in a motorhome! Hope I manage to reach Oban. If there's a problem finding diesel once I get off the mainland I'll be well p!ssed off.
Taking my 72yr old Mum and wee girls aged 5 and 3!
Might have to spend the whole week on Barra.
Tanker drivers.......................pass the twelve bore!

[Malx]

Drove through aberdeen tonight and there were lots of queues at all the stations I saw. I was intending to fill some petrol cans for the lawnmower yesterday but I didn't want people to think I was one of "those" people stocking up.

Hopefully the panicers will calm down soon.