How is garage forecourt fuel supply round your way?

[Mr Gus]

..Cambridge has had some unstable types shrieking, & shoving I note.

Is this the time to sit in your EV by a forecourt (with a picnic) & chat ev benefits to strangers!?

The smart car is full & I bought a fill for 3x 5 litre cans a few weeks back anyway.
I noted someone in the media commented that there are 600,000 lorry qualified drivers who don't want the job.
Then I heard a minister say that driving a lorry is an *increasingly well paid job* ...through it all they continue to lie their @sses off.

[Mart]

Spoilsport Gus, can you change the thread title to:

"How is the petrol station supply round your way?"

So I can reply - 'What's a petrol station?'


[Sorry, is it too soon for BEV smug mode?]

[Stinsy]

Went to Tesco yesterday in the dirty diesel. Tank was a little over half so no reason to buy fuel. There was a decent queue but all pumps working and I saw a fuel tanker pulling in as I left.

Fuel isn’t like toilet roll. Once you’ve filled up you cannot physically buy more. Many people who drive only a few miles a week will have a car sat outside their house with a full tank. I predict fuel sales will be lower than normal in the next few weeks.

Looking forward to the BEV arriving to rid me of all this nonsense.

[nowty]

Now we have two EVs I couldn't give a monkeys.

[Mr Gus]

You are forgiven Mart (after all I am a man of the cloth ..for real*)

I shouted out to the wife as to whether she wanted to wind up "those who ICE us" today

Stinsy, The year 2000 fuel shortage was a literal "gas" though wasn't it!? (remember all those gas conversions)
















*The internet is a very strange place, & I do not perform circumcisions.

[Paul_F]

Tried to fill the Golf up yesterday (2 litres left in the tank), but Tesco was out of diesel when I was there and when I got home the petrol station in the village had a monster queue outside, so it's just sitting on the driveway. That eventually hit half a mile long (not helped by being on a roundabout so people queueing completely blocking all through traffic), and by this morning they were completely sold out.

[Bugtownboy]

Dunno, but the BBC had a little chuckle about it -

[Mr Gus]

Where's a copper when you need one? ..would have thought there would be a "little" presence to put paid to this, should not be allowed to block roundabouts, time to "take a number" ticket access in the big supermarket car park across the road.

Might have to go & stand by the garage with £20 per 5 litres sign on my cans. "cough"

[Mr Gus]

On a serious note, can you see a govt " fuel card" in your vehicles window for priority pump position & dispensing?
Compared to shouting "I'm a nurse & I need to attend to keep the local hospital going" ..if covid takes us further down this winter.

I assume the litres dispense limit can be auto set from within a petrol station these days, or does it really depend on "compliance" !?

[Stinsy]

Lots of things *can* be done. Examples:

• Number plates with an even number can fuel Monday/Wednesday/Friday and odd numbers Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday (freeforall Sunday).

• Maximum transaction 20 or 30 Litres.

• Fuel ration books issued

However it is completely unnecessary because by Monday the vast majority will be sitting on a full tank of fuel they havent used and will take a-month-or-two to get through. Petrol stations will be quiet and fully stocked.