Fuel shortage

I see lower league football will be postponing games this weekend. Perhaps rugby might be forced to consider doing the same. 

Possible issue for coach companies. 

Sid James wrote: There is no fuel shortage. Just another BBC/Media driven story that is nowhere near as bad as they are reporting. At least it's knocked the Covid graphs and figures further down the BBC's list of things to scare us with.

1) Most, if not all, coach companies keep their own fuel stocks and have dedicated supply lines so I can't see this being a problem

Edited by Thatbloke - 28 Sep 2021 at 10:07

Sid James wrote: billesleyexile wrote: Sid James wrote: There is no fuel shortage. Just another BBC/Media driven story that is nowhere near as bad as they are reporting. At least it's knocked the Covid graphs and figures further down the BBC's list of things to scare us with. well, there is a shortage at a lot of the pumps *now* because idiots have bought it all. There wasn't one when the media kicked it off... My point exactly.  As you say "the media kicked it off". As they did with Covid, causing shortages of Toilet Roll and other basics at supermarkets.  You can blame the people who panic buy if you wish but, they would not be acting in such a way had the BBC not invented the petrol shortage problem and stirred it up into what it is now. The BBC reporters are standing outside Petrol Stations who are waiting for a delivery and acting as though the world is coming to an end. Why aren't they outside our Morrisons, which has seen no queues or shortage of petrol?  The BBC have a lot to answer for in this last 19 months.

Sid James wrote: Halliford wrote: Sid James wrote: billesleyexile wrote: Sid James wrote: There is no fuel shortage. Just another BBC/Media driven story that is nowhere near as bad as they are reporting. At least it's knocked the Covid graphs and figures further down the BBC's list of things to scare us with. well, there is a shortage at a lot of the pumps *now* because idiots have bought it all. There wasn't one when the media kicked it off... My point exactly.  As you say "the media kicked it off". As they did with Covid, causing shortages of Toilet Roll and other basics at supermarkets.  You can blame the people who panic buy if you wish but, they would not be acting in such a way had the BBC not invented the petrol shortage problem and stirred it up into what it is now. The BBC reporters are standing outside Petrol Stations who are waiting for a delivery and acting as though the world is coming to an end. Why aren't they outside our Morrisons, which has seen no queues or shortage of petrol?  The BBC have a lot to answer for in this last 19 months. There are regional differences. In South West London few petrol stations have any stock. When they do they have long queues. That is true not just of BP but of Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Esso garages near me. I filled up easily in Lutterworth on Saturday after leaving Leicester Lions but there had been queues that morning. Just to correct your usual anti-BBC approach, the first I read was a press release from the Petrol Retailers’ Association saying many of their members were short of fuel. Then BP confirmed that they were closing 100 garages. The media reported these but made no allowance for the stupidity of people who then fill up unnecessarily. "usual anti-BBC approach" Just to correct you Haliford, in this instance we are referring to 'BBC News' and not any of the other BBC departments which do provide some excellent services. Your recollections regarding who said what first may be correct but it is clearly the BBC News which is again guilty of causing panic amongst the more gullible members of society in the South West of London, as per your observations.

They had to sell off the E5 unleaded before October…

Two videos doing the rounds - one with a woman filling 1 litre water bottles with petrol, another trying to put petrol in plastic bags - can you believe it!? 

No Diesel where I live at the moment so I am hoping the vani collect on Friday is full so I can give it another couple of days to calm down otherwise I might have trouble transporting kit to Chinnor and the players will have to sit with their bags on their laps as the hold is filled with physio tables & pads 😂😂. I believe it is regional, luckily I filled up on route to the club before the BBC lead with the shortage story (which at the time was about 100 ish BP stations out of 1200) but as it was constantly repeated across all channels plus the Sun lovely front page by 8am on Friday the 4 garages I pass on route to school had long queues and blocked any roads around them

I remember laughing at "Drop the dead donkey" now it seems to be mainstream press training material...............................