The Morons Are Out In Force........

[Didge]

..........My local garage, is having to limit petrol to £20 per customer, due to panic buying FFS!
The f*ckwits who are panic buying, do not seem to comprehend, that it is only Shell tanker drivers who are on strike for 4 days.
Shell sell about 1 litre out of every 10 litres sold, so there is no need to panic buy, as there is plenty of fuel about. This is all explained in virtually every news report I've read, but the sheep take no notice. Instead, it's straight down to the nearest garage to try and squeeze a few litres that they don't need, in their cars.
I hate the mentality of the masses in this country, I really do.
I dread to think what would happen if there was say, a food shortage in this fackin' country.
Jeeeezus wept!!!!!

[igiyf]

yeha makes me laugh though hows these conspiracy theoists belive people can be controled by forces they dont know about.pushed in one direction to another and what not

[Itchy]

I dunno (I HAVE to buy tommorow the NTV tank is dry) the thing is people have so little faith in Gordon brown when he says don't panic buy what happens?.

He said don't panic with Northern rock and what happened?.
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[Nufkamp]

I passed 3 garages on the way to the supermarket today. The Esso garage was closed off and the pumps covered, the Shell garage had 3 cars by the pumps, and the Tesco garage had queues 20 or more cars long.

'Kin idiots some people.
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[Ste]

Rather than limiting customers to 20lites, it would work much better if there was a minimum purchase rather than a maximum.

If there was a minimum purchase of £40-50 then that would stop people going and filling up their cars at every possible opportunity.

[powelly]

[Itchy]

[Ste]

Well yeah, would probably want there to be different maximums for different vehicles. Bikes £5, cars £40, vans £60 or something along those lines.

[powelly]

[Skudd]

No problems around the North West today. I need to fill the car up every other day and the bike when I use it so tomorrow i willl need to fill up as my tank (25ltrs) is very empty.
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[JonB]

The problem is the media. If there was no coverage of this strike, people wouldn't know any wiser and things would continue as normal.

When the Daily Express props up with "PETROL RUNNING OUT" it's no wonder people panic buy.
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[Mister James]

[Didge]

[binge]

Over reacting old aged cunts, Thats who it is!
I fill up with about a tenner every other day. I could do with a bit of petty for tomorrow beause im off to tunbridge wells to collect a couple of tyres for the bike.

On the way home I go to pull into a petrol station, To find it stacked out!
Next station I go to, All the "Regular" pumps were closed off and there was only "high octain" fuel available. I begrudge spending £1.22 a litre for the shit. And besides, There were cues of cars at each pump.

Goes to another station, pull up behind a range rover, With an old prick who you can tell is the kind of gimp up MUST have all matching tyres on his vehicle, with DOT codes no more than a year different and all must be made at the same factory.

He had put about £70 in the range rover, And had 3 jerry cans he was filling. Fucking silly old cunt. I hope you crash on the way home!
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[WildGoose]

I despair at the general populace, bunch of mugs. What exactly is topping off the tank with a few litres going to achieve in your 15mpg range rovers and bmw X5's.

As somebody above pointed out, if there was ever the slightest hint that their might be a food shortage of say have a dozen staple foods, imagine the chaos that would ensue. People would be panic buying to stock their shelves for the next 6 months, cue 24 hour queues at every supermarket, and prices rocketing.

You get the same shit every christmas when people all get thrown out of whack because the supermarkets close for 24-48 hours

We really are in a bad way, ban tv and newspapers for those who aren't intelligent enough to think for themselves.
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[Finglonga]

Can't blame people when papers headlines are "PETROL CRISIS - PUMPS MAY RUN DRY" WTF are people not in the know going to do. The media are the cause of the panic and should be fined for it!
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[Mister James]

If people are so fucking stupid and thick that they:

Form their opinions by aping the headlines in the local rag

Are incapable of reading the rest of the fucking article that goes on to say "petrol will only run dry if retarded mongs like you go out and buy it when you don't need to"

.....then I really struggle to blame the media. They are certainly playing a role, but it's the moronic plebs who think that what they read only applies to everyone else (and not to them) who are most at fault.
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[Tristan.]

My mum had some chap have a go at her yesterday, when she brimmed her previa* at tescos. She didnt even know there was a fuel strike/'crisis' she was just getting sick of having to fill up every two days.

I'm going to feel a right plank tommorow, my petrol tanks leaked, and I dont have enough to get to the nearest station, so I'm gonna have to get a lift and fill a gerry can

*those 7 seats are completely justified btw, it's not a chealsea tractor.

[tsmith]

the problem is made worse because people are filling up more often due to the prices constantly rising every few days. if they sense another excuse to put up the prices, they will fill up beforehand.

i used to fill up every three weeks when my tank hit reserve, now i top up every week. nothing to do with panic buying, i just want to pay as little as possible for my petrol.

[Itchy]

[Ste]

[ncrn]

Went out for a ride with my dad today (fathers day and what not), and we passed a couple of petrol stations with super unleaded only.

With the amount of miles I'm currently doing every day, I think I'm gonna need to to fill up on Wednesday, think I might have problems , any excuse not to go to work eh?

I have always wondered if a paper decided for the fun of it to run a story about pumps running out, would people just go out and buy as much as they can despite the lack of evidence?
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[Hetzer]

Even when there was a genuine fuel crisis (that fuel blocade a few years ago) I couldn't be arsed to go fill the tank. As it happened I still had a few litres left by the time it was all over and the stations were back to normal. In a food crisis me and my family would probably starve.
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