[The Carpet Cleaning Pro]

its reported the panic buying will create an extra £32 million in revenue for the Government. "Thats handy just before the end of the financial year?" Something very fishy happening here if you ask me.

[Colin Day]

Yep... And I fell for it... I filled the van (£114) and the Disco (£106) yesterday. 

[The Carpet Cleaning Pro]

Yep me too. £113 in the van and 35 in truckmount and £300 in containers

[Craigp]

There's no need, the union has to give the government 7 days notice to strike.

They have not given them that notice. Furthermore they have not even got to the point of voting to strike.

So don't worry your have plenty of notice, and if they were a strike you have probably have run out again by then 

[Craigp]

Ps I think you have a point Monty, I think it could well have been a revenue raising exercise. David Cameron is a numb nuts, stuck up numpty, tw*t.

[John Milnes]

and the problem is many fall for it like sheep.

Historically, as far as i can recall, there has never been a shortage of fuel at any time except during the last war.

The tanker blokes have to give 7 days notice before a strike....thats not happened.....then they may not even strike. Even if they did, there probably would not be a shortage. There never has been.

The government are a bunch of morons who advocate ''go green'' whilst the satelites (that we probably pay for) are monitoring the increase in carbon emissions due to every one queing up like  a bunch of programed bots.

Perhaps it's an orchestrated experiment by the government to monitor peops behaviour during an imaginary chrisis?

No..... their certainly not that clever

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Craig I agree but Penfold isn't a credible leader should have had his brother he would be streets ahead in polls now, trouble is that the 'party' elects a leader and the 'people' elect the priminister hence why John Duncan Smith and William Hague never were priminister aswell as Michael Foot, Neil Kinnoch and John Smith.

Anyway back to topic I filled up but also knew they needed 7 days notice to strike but I like sitting in a line at the petrol station.

Shaun

[feldon]

I wasn't really that concerned but tank was getting a bit low and decided to head to a rural garage near me just in case, middle of the afternoon and had to queue for 15 minutes, half the pumps had run out and was told that lots of garages in the area had run dry.  At least i've got a full tank which will last me for at least a week, £55.  Blimey you lot have either got huge van's or got a load of jerry can's in the back

[Andrew Briscoe]

I have just got back from filling 2 vehicles, i filled the other 2 vans on sunday, this was because they were empty. There have been queues all day with people waiting inline for upto 25 mins. Spoke to guy there and he said people are filling up daily £5-£10 each time, pillocks, Morrisons drivers arnt even in the union.

If there is a shortage due to strike rather than panic buying, i will just top my vans up at the farm with red diesel where i fill my tm up.

[Tony Gill Carpet Smart]

Hi Shaun think John Smith died of a heart attack before he had a chance to fight a general election think he would have been good
Should have been Penfolds brother though.
Not filled my van up its poorley sick at the moment

Cheers Tony

[from edge2edge]

Just crawled back from oxford (3 petrol stations with no diesel) and my computer says i can travel 6km before i go pop.My mate caused a run on salt over 30 years ago when he worked in a local supermarket in Wootton Bassett by just telling all the women there was going to be  a shortage. They bought all the salt in the store within hours.............I will ring my local Petrol station to ensure if i get there they have some diesel..............we are dooooooooooooooooooooooooomed..........................Regards Alan(swindon)

[Paul Moss]

All the stations by us are out of petrol and have diesel only. The funny thing is that nobody has announced a strike yet and when they do they will give 7 days notice..............

[M.Acorn]

4 round here completely empty,can only get just over £20 worth at a time in my Scirocco,really regret only having a 20ltr tank made for it

[wynne jones]

It just seems like one thing after another. Strike action, middle east conflict, Tibetan monks....

[M W.]

boils your p when you que to get in garage, then theres no derv for sale. y  dont garages let you no
100/150 yds that there is no derv for sale @ that station. i got caught fri morning. ended up goin to 3 garages to get derv eventually,

[Ian Gourlay]

I actually saw the party figures for penfold and his brother. His Brother was well ahead in party members votes but the Unions went for his brother.

[PaulKing]

Conservative funded by rich numptys
Labour funded by unions
Lib Dems .......Hmmmm I have not a clue? Might vote for them next time, let face it seams like a nice bloke, very unlikely to shaft us after getting shafted by dave and his pals for the last few years he'll know how it feels

[benny d]

Conservative funded by rich numptys
Labour funded by unions
Lib Dems .......Hmmmm I have not a clue? Might vote for them next time, let face it seams like a nice bloke, very unlikely to shaft us after getting shafted by dave and his pals for the last few years he'll know how it feels

It's possibe he enjoys being shafted?... 

[Adam Fearnley]

Surely the only way the government could profit from this is if we're using more fuel, but by panic buying and filling up tanks, we're not using more fuel, it will average out and we will go longer without refueling. But I suppose a greater demand means the price of fuel could go up for a while in which case government and garages could profit.  I may be wrong

[AshWhite]

Adam,
It is possible that the government wanted a big influx of spending at the end of the quarter to avoid contraction in the economy for the second consecutive quarter, which might have helped us avoid going into a recession again. That's my 2c anyway.