Petrol

[Hamlet]

I am out of London today - could someone tell me if there is any of this queueing for petrol mullarkey going on in East Dulwich? Thanks

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I've passed a couple of forecourts today, haven't noticed anything amiss.

[Husker]

Nothing - Esso by the Horniman was fine this afternoon. I had to queue longer to pay once I was inside!

[maxxi]

Word on the grove is that they will soon be reduced to selling it by the carafe...

[Hamlet]

Thanks all for your help - much appreciated

[Alan Medic]

I passed the same Esso as Husker this morning at about 6.30 am and it was full of cars with a queue which blocked cars getting by. This evening I've noticed it was very quiet but it looks like all the pumps I could see as I passed had those yellow things on them that say they are empty.

[Salsaboy]

Saw a couple of queues in the Bromley/Beckenham area. Took great delight in shouting out of the window to them 'Don't Panic'.

[Husker]

AM - I find the layout of that station a bit naff, or rather it's a bit cramped, anyway so quite often cars can be backed up on to the road. May be people were panicing this morning trying get some before work and then it had settled down by the time I got there.

[Carbonara]

Queuing at stations around Vauxhall and Kennington, no diesel at some stations....

But presumably all for no purpose as more deliveries will be on the way :-S

[ratty]

There was a big queue down East Dulwich Road for Murco about 4:30 this pm. R-Soles!

[Salsaboy]

Lemmings.

[ibilly99]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59378000/gif/_59378607_fuel_data_304.gif

[Annette Curtain]

Oh goody

Nice clear roads for bikes

(the glass is always half full)

We'll survive

NETTE(tu)

[Salsaboy]

[maxxi]

The irony being that those people are all on their way to work at the spray paint factory.

[reeko]

Times like this i Love being a cyclist

[Townleygreen]

So do I - but our food won't get shifted about by cycling.

[Annette Curtain]

Yeah but, at least the lardarse Lady next door to me won't get Iceland delivering for a day or two

Jeez, she could dig and overwhelm a landfill site all by herself

"Pizza, yeah they cost a Paand"

Still give her her due, (and taking into account we now share a super-sized green bin ) she does weigh the pizza boxes down with Lambrusco bottles

(for which i'm grateful)

NETTS:-S

[katie1997]

How does she manage to fit pizza boxes and Lambrusco bottles in there with all the empty cans of Spam that her neighbour chucks in there?

Iceland deliver? Really?

KATES :-S

[malumbu]

What a cock-up

Spent 3 years working on planning for fuel shortages. Rule number 1, keep ministers out of it.

Rule number 2, if you say anything, get someone who represents the consumer and reinforce normal buying habits. No point in having your car full of fuel if you do ten miles a month

Rule 3, don't use or even think of the word panic. Panic buying = hording, = what unreasonable people did during the second world war. Don't go there.

Blair actually learned his lesson about this. Fck know why the new lot did what they did. There would be officials saying "noooooooo"

Actually I am sure it was because they were taking on the tanker drivers, trying to be hard. So we have a finite amount of fuel in our forecourts, that has to be, wait for it, refilled by tanker drivers. Duh!

Love the lemmings grafati, one of my favourites. Also enjoyed UKDK and one off the M40 Give peas a chance. There was another one along the lines 'for Gods sake give me inspiration'

Veteran of the non fuel crises 05 - at least the scaremongering was then caused by Sky news and the Daily Hate (sorry mail) - not the home goal.

Probably just blown my security clearance....

[malumbu]

Says it all:

http://www.se23.com/forum-archive/messages/9/605.html

[ibilly99]

First rule is don't panic.

2nd rule is if everyone one is panicking panic first.

Go to start - loop to infinity.

[the-e-dealer]

Its very Clever Unions havent had to Strike Prime minister has caused chaos for them.

[katie1997]

Scaremongeringf*ckwts - nothing the British like better than a good old bit of panic buying...

[DirtyBox]

All the idiots were arguing and fighting in the Sainsburys petrol station in Sydenham yesterday, the irony being a big fuel tanker was stuck in the resulting queue so was prevented from delivering the fuel....f**kwits!