Prices won’t co e down until normal service is resumed with no queues. Apparently Stafford pretty much back to normal and won’t be long until other places follow. Then I think prices will slowly drop as people can shop around again, whereas at the moment it is a case of if a station has fuel and short queues that will do.
www.thetimes.co.uk
Seems weird they're deploying the army to make deliveries after saying it was an entirely media created panic. Appears as if things are starting to unravel now, all the hubris of the last 5 years is starting to have a tangible impact.Petrol deliveries: Supply remains critical in south-east England, say retailers
But the Petrol Retailers Association says driver restraint means the problem is improving nationwide.www.bbc.co.uk
Haven’t filled up since just before this began as figured it best to do the decent thing, calm down and fill up when needed.
Thing is, am starting to get seriously concerned about this as there’s no sign of improvement Stations round here seem to be stuck in a cycle of no fuel, delivery, massive queues with the fuel getting blitzed in a few hours, no fuel etc etc. The stations are dry bar a manic couple of hours.
Not convinced after this length of time this is panic buying (granted there must be an element of that), but it’s starting to feel as though the supply is actually unable to meet the basic levels of demand and the ‘panic buying’ line is a smokescreen to cover shambolic incompetence.
Hoping that’s not the case of course as we’re up shit creek otherwise, but there aren’t any signs here to give any encouragement whatsoever.
I guess shortly I’ll have no option than to join the madness of perhaps head to a motorway where some of you are suggesting supplies are stable, but wondered if there are signs of improvement amongst you guys?
If it makes you feel better thinking like that, then good on you, I'm not saying a shortage of drivers is not playing a minor part but this is partially down to the fact that tanker driving is not the mega bucks job it used to be,( they were on £20k+ when I was only on £9k in the late 80's /early 90's,) they're earning just as much working for Tescos or Amazon. I wouldn't have thought the loss of SPA / UKPIA accredited foreign tanker drivers would have had much impact either.
Even Grant Shapps said yesterday Brexit was a factor in the fuel crisis.
To be fair I used to supply figures for imported Nickel commodity prices to the ONS. I had to fill in a questionnaire stated the opening price on the first working day of each month, even though I phoned them and wrote to them explaining that the trade doesn't work like that, the prices change daily, sometimes hourly, they weren't interested they just needed an 'indicator', I still have a wry smile when people use the ONS as irrefutable proof of something.
The ONS listed on their website about the caution of using their figures on wages yet the blithering fat cunt used them and then decided they weren’t to be trusted later.
