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Title: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Scrumpy on February 26, 2022, 05:52:22 PM
Motorist in some areas are starting to panic buy at petrol stations... Many queues are forming..


WHY !! Could someone make sense of all this please because I cannot.. !!!
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Flying Bomb on February 26, 2022, 05:54:49 PM
Toilet rolls wlll be next.
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Raven on February 26, 2022, 06:04:58 PM
I read today that thanks to Putin the price of fuel could rise to £2 per litre. That could be the cause.....Maybe. :cry:
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: zoony on February 26, 2022, 06:21:50 PM
Quote from: Scrumpy on February 26, 2022, 05:52:22 PM
Motorist in some areas are starting to panic buy at petrol stations... Many queues are forming..


WHY !! Could someone make sense of all this please because I cannot.. !!!


If you made a living driving you'd be filling up too I suspect. As for the toilet-paper-eaters, they deserve all they get.
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Scrumpy on February 26, 2022, 06:44:40 PM
But panic buying causes shortages..
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Diasi on February 26, 2022, 08:37:26 PM
Quote from: Raven on February 26, 2022, 06:04:58 PM
I read today that thanks to Putin the price of fuel could rise to £2 per litre. That could be the cause.....Maybe. :cry:

It's nothing to do with Putin, it's the oil traders, in cahoots with Arabs, are making obscene opportunistic profits.

The supply of oil need be no different today than it was 20 years ago but the Arabs are deliberately reducing the amount of oil they pump.
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Raven on February 26, 2022, 09:27:47 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/panic-fuel-ukraine-motorists-sanctions-b2023649.html
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Diasi on February 26, 2022, 10:26:37 PM
Quote from: Raven on February 26, 2022, 09:27:47 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/panic-fuel-ukraine-motorists-sanctions-b2023649.html

Yes that's what I mean, speculative opportunistic price increases that aren't connected to the amount of oil that's available.

It's precisely the same as when a £1 handwash was being sold for £10 during the first wave of the Covid 19 pandemic in April 2020.
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Alex on February 27, 2022, 12:04:52 AM
I'm surprised they're not blaming Brexit  :grin:
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Michael Rolls on February 27, 2022, 03:31:17 AM
just wait - they will!
Mike 😁😁
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Scrumpy on February 27, 2022, 09:13:17 AM



Granny49 would have a field day with this one..  :grin: :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: crabbyob on February 27, 2022, 10:25:47 AM
i think its to do with social distancing, and the lack of masks...
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: klondike on February 27, 2022, 11:15:42 AM
Yep. Them Ruskies are far too close.
Title: Re: Panic, panic panic..
Post by: Raven on February 27, 2022, 11:26:04 AM
Came back from the Hairy Ones's walk the long way this morning, past 3 garages. No waiting in line at any of them in fact one forecourt was empty. :clap: