Other Daniel
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Sadly fuel costs here are generally higher than the UK; at leat that will last us all winter.
It has been over €1.00 in the past. I remember one fill up when it was €1.11 per litre.
Sadly fuel costs here are generally higher than the UK; at leat that will last us all winter.
I thought Boris had sent the army in to solve this, as the 27 EU drivers aren't enough.Well here in Sunny South East London the local Esso/ Tesco has been without fuel for over a week.
Tomorrow I am up to York on the train to bring a car back down to the smoke, I am told by the rellies I should be fine. Fingers crossed.
It's a commonsense thing really The independents were/ are being given priority in the refilling stakes .. as folk will still shop at the suermarkets so they won't go bust, but if the independents can't get fuel it's likely many of them will go bust .I thought Boris had sent the army in to solve this, as the 27 EU drivers aren't enough.
Such is life .. syphon it off your neighbours cars in to jerry cans then pay them for the topping up to the same volume.My local garage has petrol listed at 111p on the Petrol Prices site. Unfortunately my car is in pieces
I went to a local fuel station on my way to collect a few 'parts',
The first 'top up' since the 13th September
Where are all these queues you have been 'shouting off' about, doom and gloom and all that, the end of the world
It has 'gone up' a penny a litre though
I've now resorted to filling 25 litre's, rather than my usual £30.
All I can say is, all the panic buyers have filled up now, and are sat at home waiting to use it
I don't think anyone would let tanks run empty for E10 - E5 still complies with E10 notices, so they would just stick it in the same tank at the usual refill delivery time - no need to run empty.The panic buying was short lived
The people who genuinely needed fuel paid the price and had no choice but to queue
Couple that with garages letting there tanks run low ready for the e10 rollout and things got dire quickly.
Can't find the article mentioning the trend. Scratch that.I don't think anyone would let tanks run empty for E10 - E5 still complies with E10 notices, so they would just stick it in the same tank at the usual refill delivery time - no need to run empty.
But agree that the poor sods who need to refuel regularly were massively inconvenienced by idiots - I didn't have much, but also didn't need to go anywhere, so felt no need to spend ours driving around the local forecourts adding to the misery.
I can help you with that.… But agree that the poor sods who need to refuel regularly were massively inconvenienced by idiots, …
Back in the 1973 oil crisis I was never short of fuel - my local fuel station (long gone and the site redeveoped) often had his ‘closed’ signs out, but never turned away his regulars.
How many private individuals have a monthly fuel account these days? I actually finished up with about 35 gallons in containers, in an overgrown ditch running with water from a spring, but that was only a fortnight’s supply. That fuel crisis lasted months, not a couple of weeks.
We used to frequent the pub where the garage owner often visited for a drink in the evenings. How things have changed…