How is garage forecourt fuel supply round your way?

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Re: How is garage forecourt fuel supply round your way?

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There are conspiracy theories circulating about ff companies suffering poor sales because fewer people commute daily so exaggerated driver shortages to stoke demand and overshot.

Heard also that HMRC have been conducting an IR35 crackdown. But the drivers left because they didn’t want to be employees.
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How about this?
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If it does get bad then we will be offering our spare EV to a nurse, teacher, someone of that ilk to get to work if they can sort something with work for a charge point access / plug.

Likewise the smart car (full + 10 litres in cans) ..with the instruction to "not drive like a tw@t"

SO this morning the blonde fool & his cohorts are "thinking" (if so estimated time of 3 weeks to sort) getting the army in, a whole 80 drivers.
Yup little dutch boy peter, please stick your finger in this dyke wall hole & pray for us all :roll:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... l-stations

& whilst the same paper covers the potential collapse of that indian billionaire brothers oil depot it fails to mention anything about HMRC monies owed etc.. hmm, has govt told them to avoid rocking the boat?
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Wife already being asked to travel more to fill in specialist jobs & assessments that are falling by the wayside, two sets of 60 mile return trips today, give it a week to really start to bite, she spent the entire weekend on the computer just to make space for the next few days, foiled by a systems error in the firms programming that had been causing problems since friday (no-one let anyone know) ..lost all that work.

how is the tesla for hooking up a laptop comfortably & working remotely in a lay-by? ..can you use your pre-paid access to tesla internet to carry the load?
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Fuel stations near me look ok, not that I am bothered as I bought in bulk in April 2020 when the price plummeted.

Personally I think the media have a lot of blame in this and a lot of everything else. I remember reading the report on the BBC news app and that later on it gave the figures. I think it was about 5 stations effected!
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This is all media and no substance!

Drove past a few petrol stations this morning. All open and serving customers. Seemed busier than normal but no queues.

Plenty of people who had enough fuel to last them into the middle of the week spent their weekend driving round looking for a queue to join.

Other people who normally put £20 in every other week are full to the brim.

By tomorrow the forecourts as will be quiet. This isn’t bog roll where someone who uses 4-rolls a week can buy 64 in one go and another 64 a few days later…
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Stinsy wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 4:23 am Heard also that HMRC have been conducting an IR35 crackdown. But the drivers left because they didn’t want to be employees.
Years ago they wanted all the construction industry to be self employed then when they all were they didn't.
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Wifey tried to go shopping yesterday, late morning, but she couldn't even turn off the roads that lead to the roads, that you have to turn off from to get into the supermarkets, if you see what I mean. Just queues of petrol cars blocking up everything ...... but remember, BEV's aren't much use, because not everyone can charge from home ................... ROFLMAO.

She went this morning, about 6.30am, but it was absolutely fine, no queues ........ the petrol stations are closed!

Staff inside said they had hardly any customers yesterday as nobody could get in.
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OK, sorry to the guardian.
They printed a piece on the oil business debt sunday https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... se-reports

"Since early August, the company has increased its daily vehicle shifts from 52 to more than 70, and is aiming to increase deliveries to more than 80 by the end of October, it said"

We have got to question though working from home from covid versus the "norm" of nearly 2 years ago & compare demand then & supply now, & look t the math, the govt is coaxing people back to commuting involving a lot of fossil fuel within those numbers, ..& that is the plan regardless of covid & other related jitters, so how does that make the "normal" supply look?

A lot less folk driving here in the countryside since June 2021, although numbers are going back up, still plenty of people shielding & as a result pub trade dying.

I do need 5 litres for my chainsaw & stihl cutter, what sort of outrage pulling up in the tesla & blocking a pump will I incur do you think?
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Mart wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:01 pm Wifey tried to go shopping yesterday, late morning, but she couldn't even turn off the roads that lead to the roads, that you have to turn off from to get into the supermarkets, if you see what I mean. Just queues of petrol cars blocking up everything ...... but remember, BEV's aren't much use, because not everyone can charge from home ................... ROFLMAO.

She went this morning, about 6.30am, but it was absolutely fine, no queues ........ the petrol stations are closed!

Staff inside said they had hardly any customers yesterday as nobody could get in.
So the big supermarkets with petrol stations & maybe other shops, just like in covids darkest 15 months fail to get a copper in or actually address the situation by marshalling? ..& as a result wasted produce. FerFlipsSakes.

#weakmindedfools #takeanumber.

NB I love seeing footage of folks mindlessly in car fuel queues "starving for fuel" sitting with their engines on, ..total dumb-assery. :roll:
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