"Fuel strike: Advice to drivers changed after panic buying
Supplies of petrol have been diminished after panic buying by motorists
The government has changed its advice to motorists to top up petrol tanks after two days of panic buying."
Either our government is losing the plot - or is engaging in some very clever behaviour manipulation...
There is going to be a fuel tanker driver strike. 2000 drivers will hold the country to ransom. The threat was to do this over the Easter W/E when the there will be lots of folks traveling and the drivers would quite like a few days off.
Government minister says "no need to panic but please fill your tanks and stockpile fuel at home"
So folks do this - and the pumps run dry. Fuel companies struggle to meet 170% increase in demand and rapidly restock the petrol stations.
So we have a nation with full tanks and 8000 stations with full tanks as we head into easter - and funny - drivers' union now says "no strike over Easter"
All this being said - I bought myself a jerry-can after the last lot of strikes - and, using my standard rule of "do the opposite" - filled it up this morning. Looking at planned travel I have enough now to take me well into May - including any unplanned dash down to Winchester or whatever. Probably being too careful - but it lowers my stress level.
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I've been driving Marti's car for two days because I didn't want to queue up to fill mine up. How the government turned this particular drama into a crisis will go down in the annals of political mismanagement.
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