Fuel
 

Lots of queue's at a lot of stations and heard some have run dry. (midlands)

Is this being repeated all around the country.

Need some for Oulton tomorrow hope theres some left for me.:o

Yep, like that down here in Dorset. Took ages to find somewhere to put a bit in the car since it was running on vapour!

Monster needs filling, 916 has over half a tank left.

If you're at Oulton there's a shell at the junction with the A556 and another unknown fuel station just the other side of Oulton

no probs in Woking, passed 3 on the way into work (2.8 miles!)

all between 93.9 & 96.9 for unleaded

C:)

Will need a list of all stations in the local area, Dont mind not being able to get fuel to get to work ;) , but not being able to get some for a track day is a different matter :mad: :D


Were is this unknow station, might be useful for tomorrow.

Carn't think of one after Whitchurch there must be one, never noticed on sunday when i went for bsb.

[Edited on 13-9-2005 by Mello-Yellow]

If you come out of the circuit and back to the main road, right take you back up to the A556 and the shell garage, turning left you'll see the petrol station in the distance on the left hand side

Cheers mate :D

Ran it till petrol light came on yesterday then called in M6 Lymm station on way home.
Geezer on a gsx was also on empty and there was about a 15 minute queue.
Saw one numpty in an X5 filling plastic barrels in his boot.
Panic buying? Yep, rsoles.

Bleedin 4x4 drivers, most properly making sure he's got enough for the school run :lol:

Wonder if it's ever been off road, mounting the curb outside the takeway is the nearest i bet.

Says the man with the Ducati that probably hasn't been near a track...

The point being that just as you can buy any motorcycle you like, they can buy any car they like. Get over it.

BTW, petrol is 91.9 at our local supermarket and there wasn't much of a queue this morning either.

Big ques last night at the petrol stations near me. And one of those is a 99.9p UL (and was 1.01 last week).

Antonye - nip out and get us a couple of jerry cans full, (for the bike of course).

Every station on my way home from Manchester to Warrington (22miles)was queueing last night.
What's the problem? If I got no fuel, I don't go to work.

Apparently its illegal to transport more than 10 litres of fuel without a licence? I still have a 5 litre can full from Brands which I might sell off on ebay.

Actually, you could always try these people:
http://www.petroldirect.com/

:( Sorry,
Was a light heated comment no offence ment :(

3rd track day in two mounths on the red one.

Thats cheap it's up around 94.9 to 99.9 around here.

No problem - just pointing out the hypocrisy of your statement :D

For some reason the big supermarkets here have kept their petrol low. Most expensive I've seen was just off the A12 at an Esso statio for 95.9 a litre which still isn't ridiculous.

Did I miss the news then???
so that's why there was a big queue at the petrol stations!...
(back to the what women say thread!)
Seeing as I'm running on fumes at the mo best leave work early and get to a petrol station...oh and check the news!:P

Titchfield this morning, only super doopa unleaded, normal sold out, abd every petrol station I've seen in Pompey has now got no unleaded, or £20 only signs, or sold out. As Alan says, once it runs out, no fuel in car, can't go to work, not that we're gonna run out, because they have said their not gonna stop the lorries. Don't ya love panic buyers, and funny enough, I also saw an rsole in an X5 filling 3 jerry cans of fuel on Sunday in Fareham.

Ignore Antonye, he's an aspiring landrover disco driver!! :P

I see were you are coming from, no probs mate. :cool:

Good price that, think some are cashing in on it a little, is there another one close by, price matching etc

What a load of billox...the government want shooting for mentioning "petrol rationing"...Jeez and some people are such "Dills"...no petrol= dont go to work!
They should have got it right in the first place when lorry drivers lobbied 5 (?) years ago, tut, tut!

What really hacks me off is that the 'perceived' fuel crisis isn't caused by a lack of fuel - the oil price has gone down on the markets in recent days now that the Katrina damage to the US oil supply has been factored in, so the pump price should slowly follow.

It's the self-appointed fuel lobbyists that jar me. OK so the price of fuel is extortionate, OK so the government is on the take with taxes on it (nothing new there then) and you could put all sorts of arguements together on how badly the supply/demand equation is balanced, and how the government should help the road haulage and farming industry (as if the farming industry don't already get enough handouts). The whole situation could undoubtedly be handled better, but you'd like to think that in a democracy there would be better ways of handling this rather than some jumped up individuals according themselves the right to hold the rest of us to ransom.

Hasn't Bush said that he's keeping al oil reserves or something and not exporting coz of the crisis there?

I just think Joolz, that the government have sparked it off by replying to the threat of the lobbiest's. People hear the words ration and read reports of stations running out of fuel and forget to act normally. I am running on empty but have enough to get me home and back to work so wouldn't normally fill up till the petrol light is flashin like a bleasher beacon!:)

Crazy round here. The massive queue for the petrol station at the bottom of my road lasted right up until they closed at 22:00 last night. It was there again at 06:40 this morning - I don't think they actually open until 07:00!!

These ********s are jamming up everything. I couldn't get anything, car or bike, off my drive even if I had petrol in it - these guys won't allow an inch between themselves and the car in front in case someone pushes in.

To ease the congestion caused, the police have essentially made my road one way, so you can only get into the forecourt entrance from one direction. So what do these morons do - come in the exit of course!

If I had a gun..............

Filled the bike up last night so I can go to the DSC meet tonight, had to que for 10mins at the petrol station I used, most other petrol stations in the area had run out of unleaded but shock of all shocks had super unleaded for sale and a captive audience, makes you wonder if they really had ran out of ordinary unleaded. I don't really care now though as the Duke is full so will get me to Gunthorpe and back tonight and I cycle to work most days anyway :D

Darren

Oh! :(

The government will bleat that if they cut tax on fuel, they'll have to put it up elsewhere.

It's a no-win situation for the motorist, so don't expect anything but silence and denials from the government.

Vote Labour!

I saw queues this morning at 06.30 on the way to the gym and on the wayback so I stopped at my local and filled up, because I was empty anyway. Just going to top up the bike in case. Panic buying whats that, not me Im just making sure I dont run out.:yawn:

I blame Messrs Blair & Brown, anyone who thinks this govt is not raking it in on the back of increased fuel prices is living in a dream world, did the govt reduce VAT or tax on fuel no nor will they. Whilst I dont condone direct action I can understand why it happens - the french dont put up with this crap they blockade the roads until the govt capitulate, farmers truckers probabally nursery teachers as well. Our trouble is we roll over too easily, me included.

Got that off my chest spose I had better do some work.

Or vote for whoever you like...no government of whatever colour is going to make a scrap of difference to the price of fuel.

Long term, the sad fact is that they ain't making oil any more so the world has just got to get used to eeking out it's dwindling supplies. Especially with China and India's economies stoking up the demand there's a big race on to get first dibs on existing and new reserves with Chinese companies outbidding the likes of Shell and Exxon for some of the Khazakstan fields.

Of course ultimately the world's only superpower and it's gas guzzling habits means that it also has to carry the biggest stick to make sure it gets more than it's fair share

Here to , i filled my bike up last night coz hello !! my fuel light came on but i saw a lady who managed to get £1.78p worth in her tank(well below the minimum delivery amount) and pay by credit or debit card then as she drove off about 78p's worth finished up all over the road.Isn't it nice to be in such a selfless society!!

I was only using my right to have a rant, I dont think that any other party in the UK at the moment would do any different, just it gets my goat that those smug ****ards (Blair & Brown) are try to look holier than thou. I do think there is some merit in reducing the tax on bio diesel and providing assistance to individuals maybe farmers who set up to recycle waste products and sell it locally.

anyways, who`s the bloke with the big hooter in your avatar ?

To anyone who is bitching about queuing to fill up - try living in a rural area and having to drive in to work each day. We tried to fill up on Monday evening (to last the week) and most of the petorl stations in Grantham had signs up " no fuel", "diesel only", and one already had "emergency vehicles only". We ended up queuing for 45 minutes at the only one left open and yes, I did fill a large plastic can which is for my track day next Monday in case it's really bad by then. Why should I waste £90 paid for the track day because I didn't have the foresight to get petrol in for it? As for wife getting into town for work each day - her job doesn;t stop if she doesn't turn up, so if the cvar doesn't run, they will expect her to get there somehow. That means taxis, assuming they have fuel still. At the end of the day it doesn't matter to me if the shortage is because of the action, or because of panic buying. It is sitll a shortgage and I have to take steps as I see fit.

Sorry if it's bitchy ... but the red mist came down reading the "r'soles queuing" comments above.

Right then ... I just watched the lunchtime news and only ahandfuil of protesters turned out today so there is no interruption to fuel. No interruption other than some garages selling a whole week's worth in one day and so having to wait for the next scheduled delivery.

According to the AA Motoring Trust who monitor pump prices around the country, the average price actually fell on Monday, but yesterday the prices went up which is shouldn't have done (price of oil went down). This gives credence to the rumours that some garages are profiteering and pushing prices up in the panic. They are expecting the prices to drop to below "pre Katrina" prices, but it won't be until the current supply/demand settles down, so probably week after next. Retailer association say prices should come down next week by about 4p per litre.

Here endeth the news. :sing:

[Edited on 14-9-2005 by HW]

Indeed. Vote for whoever you like, but it won't change. The global oil market is dominated by the US, who will do whatever it takes to protect their oil supplies. Instability in the middle east and ever increasing demand from China/India, coupled with a lack of refining capacity means lower oil prices are improbable to say the least.

To my mind, we (as the Western developed world) only have ourselves to blame for allowing ourselves to become so totally dependant on a natural resource with limited stocks, located predominantly in unstable areas of the world. It really is about time alternative fuels were developed.

:lol:

It's Gonzo the Unemployed!

:lol:

Oh, so am I now ... :(

Interesting to see how our cousins over the water are dealing with the massive increase in fuel prices (by my reckoning they're at about £1.71 a US gallon)

From Reuters:
BOSTON (Reuters) - A growing number of American automobile owners are so infuriated by rising gasoline prices that they are refusing to pay and speeding off in their cars from gas stations after filling their tanks.

Since Hurricane Katrina disrupted supplies and sent prices soaring, a flurry of what gasoline retailers call "drive offs" have taken place in New Hampshire -- a state whose car license plates are engraved with the motto: "Live Free or Die."

"I think we're seeing an increase in it because of the increase in gas prices," said Lt. Paul Leger of the police department in the state capital Concord, echoing comments by gas retailers across the state.

"We were just experiencing a wealth of drive-offs," Peterborough Oil Company owner Joe Hart said in the Concord Monitor, a New Hampshire daily.

"It's all shapes and sizes and ages of people who, for some reason, think they're shaking their fist at the oil-producing people, but it actually hurts us quite a bit," he said.

Americans have been stunned by record gasoline prices after devastation from Hurricane Katrina.

Nicki Richard, a Shell station manager, said the number of drive-offs from her business in the New Hampshire state capital had climbed over the summer but spiraled out of control after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.

Gasoline prices vaulted to well over $3 a gallon in many parts of the United States after the hurricane shut down most of the region's oil production and refineries. Gasoline had sold for about $2.60 a gallon before the hurricane hit.

By September 1, Richard's store and other franchises in the area began requiring customers to pay the cashier before pumping, the Concord Monitor reported.

"Drive-offs were continually rising as the price of gas was continually rising, and they just started getting out of control," she said. "This makes it easier on the cashiers. They were writing down every single license plate."

Heh, no muppet avatar required!



Ah nuts. Sorry to hear that mate. I've been offered a couple of jobs already but nothing that I really want so I'm trying to hold them off until something better comes along...

As for fuel, yeah I queued up outside Sainsburys just up the road yesterday to fill the car up at 91.9 for unleaded. The car was on red and took 47.50 worth, so it definitely needed it!

I was talking to the guy outside directing traffic and he said people had been queueing since 6am that morning and they'd just had a tanker in (at 11am) to restock. He said it would last until 10pm at that rate when he had two more turning up. Both the other local supermarkets (Tesco and Asda) were closed as both didn't have any petrol!

[Edited on 14-9-2005 by antonye]

no Que's in Glasgow

cant say iv'e seen any queues
filled bike up at 5.40ish pm and there was only one other car there