Panic, panic panic..

[Scrumpy]

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.. !!!

[Flying Bomb]

Toilet rolls wlll be next.

[Raven]

I read today that thanks to Putin the price of fuel could rise to £2 per litre. That could be the cause.....Maybe.

[zoony]

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.

[Scrumpy]

But panic buying causes shortages..

[Diasi]

I read today that thanks to Putin the price of fuel could rise to £2 per litre. That could be the cause.....Maybe.

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.

[Raven]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/panic-fuel-ukraine-motorists-sanctions-b2023649.html

[Diasi]

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.

[Alex]

I'm surprised they're not blaming Brexit 

[Michael Rolls]

just wait - they will!
Mike 😁😁

[Scrumpy]

Granny49 would have a field day with this one.. 

[crabbyob]

i think its to do with social distancing, and the lack of masks...

[klondike]

Yep. Them Ruskies are far too close.

[Raven]

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.