Fuel shortages in the UK?

StefanOnHisS10

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Prices are going up here. I paid €1,98 per liter for SHELL 98 octane. And my car needs a lot of it… More reason to use the bike as first choice.
 

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There are 30 million cars in the UK, plus, say 10 million vans, so if everybody adds a couple of gallons to the tanks of all their vehicles at once it depletes fuel supplies by 80 million gallons. We hold about 300 million gallons of motor spirit in UK storage, so if the press start a rumour and everyone behaves like lemmings it’s easy to see how mass idiotic behaviour can play havoc with supply side economics.

The suggestion that we suddenly had an HGV driver shortage a week last Friday is absolutely stupid, but that’s what the biased broadcasting corporation has been peddling for over a week (ramping up the panic). Just-in-time supply chains rely on everybody behaving “normally” otherwise it all collapses like a pack of cards.
 

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I came back from Spain on Friday. Filled up in Santander but I knew I was about 80m short of getting home with my tank range

Needn't have worried. Most petrol stations were open and filled up near Bristol 9 (pity I had to pay motorway prices though)

Got home no problem

Mike
 

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. . . . I knew I was about 80m short of getting home with my tank range . . . .
I was able to use the cruise today for a little over 100mi, at 75mph. The first fuel bar didn't drop 'till 92mi. Usually, it drops at 72-ish.
 

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The problem in the UK was caused when many EU drivers returned home when covid struck and then when they tried to come back to uk the rules had changed due to Brexit and it was too hard for them to get visas. You get what you vote for.


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StefanOnHisS10

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there was in the news here that the British are very busy kicking everything EU-related out. Even the metric-system had to go… that kind of nitpicking is not what the government should be doing right?
 

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there was in the news here that the British are very busy kicking everything EU-related out. Even the metric-system had to go… that kind of nitpicking is not what the government should be doing right?
It seems as of late that a lot of governments are doing the kind nitpicking that governments should not be doing. :confused:
 

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there was in the news here that the British are very busy kicking everything EU-related out. Even the metric-system had to go… that kind of nitpicking is not what the government should be doing right?
Seriouosly? Are they nuts? The english system is a ROYAL PITA for us to deal with, especially when doing conversions.
 

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This country is going to hell in a handcart! I have read that U.K. is supposed to be ditching metric, not that we ever use metric of course! I started my apprenticeship on 1st. September 1970 and the college lecturer told us “you will never use Imperial measurements again” What a joke that was! It cost U.K. a fortune to leave pounds, shillings and pence behind and if that bunch of lunatics led by Boris the Liar wants to go back, then I will emigrate unless Wales declares independence!
 
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