 | Home > Off Topic > Don't Panic! |
 
|
|
|
| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753  
|
Time to buy a used Renault Zoe……….. before their prices skyrocket! Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
||
27th Sep 2021 8:12am |
|
| markb110 Member Since: 22 May 2010 Location: Guildford Posts: 2644  
|
Sales of rubber hoses and Jerry cans are on the way up…….
Worth watching that documentary again, what to do in the event of a fuel crisis….Mad Max 2 I think it is called… 
Did notice even on the way back from Cornwall last Saturday the thieving  weren’t slow in whacking the prices up.
Who needs a pandemic when we have politicians and social mediocre….. I wonder how many owners of petrol cars have put the wrong grade of petrol into their tanks…… |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 8:16am |
|
| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753
|
I did a trip Stirling to Liverpool and back last week - filled up before leaving and again on return on Wednesday, no queues then and no problem putting 60ltrs in to fill the 80ltr tank back to full. I also made sure my old 90’s tank was full last week as soon as Grant Shaps told us not to panic as there was plenty of diesel. I noticed yesterday that the village garage had a “no diesel” sign up. Good job I don’t have to travel anywhere for anything other than pleasure in the next month.
I heard on the R4 news yesterday that supermarkets are having another run on toilet rolls…………. Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come 2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 8:31am |
|
| Pat Member Since: 05 Dec 2016 Location: Somewhere new! Posts: 368 
|
 Click image to enlarge It started with a kiss, never thought it would come to this. SIII CSW Safari, limestone, (JAC 914N). Where is she now? It's not a car, it's a way of life! |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 9:05am |
|
| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410 
|
Honestly it went
crazy up here on Friday/Saturday... I popped out for some antifreeze and counted 15 stations without fuel and queues for 10s of car lengths down the road.  It's all gone a bit crazy...
On the bright side the A5 past my house was much quieter over the weekend than usual, which was nice...  |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 9:16am |
|
| J77 Member Since: 04 Nov 2019 Location: Fife Posts: 3412 
|
I’ve spent the weekend around the west coast of Scotland, tried a couple of garages before I left as the intention was to fuel up before I left and that would’ve lasted the whole trip, but the queues were unreal. So headed for Inverness and fuelled up at a BP, no fuss, straight in straight out. Back to where I started with more fuel than I left with
 24MY 90 D250 HSE, Tasman Blue |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 1:13pm |
|
| Ads90 Member Since: 16 Jun 2008 Location: Cots-on-the-Wolds Posts: 812 
|
Click image to enlarge |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 2:18pm |
|
| AJC Member Since: 30 Nov 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 1364
|
Luckily i filled the 5500 litre bowser a week ago so we're good for a while yet. No fun cars to be driven though, just the dervs
|
||
|
27th Sep 2021 3:00pm |
|
| macfrank Member Since: 05 Nov 2015 Location: somewhere in the north Posts: 1081  
|
sorry, but it's beyond me how a civilised country can get into such a state
I mean, the brexit date was known quite a while ago, wasn't it? If it wasn't for the bl*** china virus, we probably would be on holiday in the UK now, finally, only to be stranded for lack of fuel?? |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 3:52pm |
|
| kenzle8a Member Since: 12 Feb 2020 Location: None Posts: 1074
|
Like most things i blame the media for hyping up this into a crisis, most of us were left with little recourse but to go and fill our tanks or risk being left empty.
|
||
|
27th Sep 2021 4:08pm |
|
| Slideywindows Member Since: 09 Sep 2016 Location: North Essex Posts: 1286
|
The fuel tanker drivers didn't suddenly disappear at the end of last week, and there were few problems up to then.
It wasn't a crisis until our wonderful media told us it was. |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 4:20pm |
|
| Silver Back Member Since: 11 Jun 2015 Location: Lincolnshire Posts: 407 
|
 |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 4:20pm |
|
| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 8077 
|
well i run to empty and then fill. need the car for work, its empty. great. Cheers
James 110 2012 XS Utility 130 2011 M57 bespoke Camper 90 2010 Hardtop 90 M57 1988 Hardtop |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 4:45pm |
|
| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17458 
|
Same here, I currently have two vehicles with insufficient fuel to get to work (actually it is worse, I could get to work but not home again!) and there is no fuel to be had anywhere. I do however have an HGV licence so perhaps I should take a sabbatical from work and go to drive a fuel tanker!
I blame (1) the person, presumably in government, who leaked to the media the confidential email from BP to the Cabinet - I hope that that person loses his or her job, (2) the media, which clearly is now completely free of intelligence, scruples, and any civic responsibility, and (3) the stunningly gormless mass of the British public which turns 1 and 2 from a drama into a crisis. It is truly frightening how fragile a dim-witted society dependent on social media has become. Perhaps we need another lockdown to stabilise the fuel situation.
I like this! |
||
|
27th Sep 2021 4:56pm |
|
|
|
| All times are GMT |
< Previous Topic | Next Topic > |
Posting Rules
|
Site Copyright © 2006-2025 Futuranet Ltd & Martin Lewis
