Bope is a bit of a big lad, fatty, whatever you want to call them prolly got one of them mopeds with basket free from NHS
Sorry bro, I ordered mine online off Amazon. Tanker came round, filled up and fcked off. I got Prime so free delivery too.
Yep, but taking it to the local collection at McColls would be a bitch. I think I'll just stick it in some Evian bottles instead.
Lots of chat around priority for key workers regarding fuel, but I don't feel reporters realise this is not as simple as it seems to just implement. A garage said recently that it had tried that approach with customers, but everyone has a genuine reason why they should be served! Nurses, doctors, coppers, RNLI, carers, social care workers, the list just goes on... Certainly without doubt all blue light vehicles should receive priority, but those type of vehicles are easy to identify. I know one council has suggested issuing cards to priority workers, but you may well travel into another authroity area, where the garages don't recognise the cards, also you still have a problem of getting round the queues, even with the best will in the world. Easy said the media banging on about priority, not so easy to implement, especially with garages that open 24/7 - how do you shift all the cars out the way for something like a priority timeslot.
Around my neck of the woods there is no sign of things getting better. I pass three garages travelling to and fro to work and tonight all three have run out of fuel. I’m running on fumes, so the car will be parked on the drive for the duration!
i haven't drove me car in the last week and a half. I have half a tank which i plan on driver around 80 miles this weekend so i daren't chance it to go check out some garages. Hopefully the mad rush will be over by then.
I think the problem is going to be that those who filled up last weekend for this weeks work are going to be looking to fill up again from Friday onwards, which in turn puts us back to square 1.
yeah but those people would be filling up normally and part of the normal. It's those who aren't filling up and decided to take loads of jerry can't/plastic bags/water bottles who hopefully aren't rejoining the queue. This is provided that the petrol gets delivered to the empty forecourts!
One of the garages has had no fuel all of this week (Texaco) but the other 2 have had fuel. Not sure what’s happened in the last 24 hrs, as these are now out as well.
I was thinking Friday will get hit again. Years gone by, I would always fill up on the way home before a weekend, incase the family wanted to do something.
Fortunately she’d randomly tanked her car the day before it all kicked off, pleased she did, as we’re off to a funeral back home tomorrow.
Back in 2000 when there were oil refinery blockades, the Govt allocated 300 petrol stations for Emergency vehicles and essential workers. In the end the protests ended and the fuel came back online, but I think there is a precedent to set this up if needed.
Stanlow oil refinery blockade https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/new...rious-stanlow-fuel-blockade-pictures-20768330
If there is an organised method of doing it, then I'm all for it. What I didn't want was making a bad situation any worse for the people who have to work on these forecourts. My worry is since covid, the term essential workers appears to have been extended to numerous job roles, but yeah I'm happy for any thought through process to be applied.
Yep it would need to be clearly defined and managed. It could be a logistical nightmare for forecourt workers trying to check everybody though. You'd hope that people would respect a rule that said a certain garage was only for Emergency vehicles, NHS, Healthcare, Social workers. But the behaviour we've seen this week from entitled me first types, sadly suggests otherwise.
