Which genius dreamed this up?

On the Beeb website news item, dealing with possible[1] fuel panic
buying:

"The government also has the option of using a number of "emergency
response tools" in the event of any disruption to supply. These
include:
The amount of fuel that retail customers are allowed to buy at any one
time could be restricted"

So you're limited to (say) 20 litres. And the fuckwits will therefore
go from one statrion to another, buying 20 litres at a time, and
tripling the forecourt congestion[2].

[1] I understand the durrbrains are already queueing Oop North.
Everything normal in the Sarf-East, as far as I can see.
[2] Got to go to Heathrow tomorrow, so taking the BMW, and it hasn't
got enough juice in it. I shall do my usual 'irritate-the-cagers'
trick of grabbing the nearest empty pump before the car at it has
moved away, while the driver's inside paying[3].
[3]"Why can't you queue like everyone else?" "Because you can't get to
this pump anyway, and by the time you can, I'll have filled my bike
and be out of your way, so what's the problem?"[4]
[4] Paraphrased from the time of the fuel blockades in 2001.

 

Quite. I've thought for some time the answer to petrol hoarding was to
have minimum charges of, say, £35 for cars and £15 for bikes.

 

Might be a bit tricky for mopeds, mind. Even at today's prices, I
can't get a tenner's worth into the SH50.

Are the lemmings queueing in your neck of the woods?

 

I wonder if they could - haven't garages recently started using an
ANPR-type system to stop bilkers? What's the betting that could be
adapted to stop people serial filling?

Nothing wrong, nothing to fear. Nothing wrong, nothing to fear.
Nothing wrong, nothing to fear. Nothing wrong, nothing to fear.
Nothing wrong, nothing to fear. Nothing wrong, nothing to fear.
Nothing wrong, nothing to fear. Nothing wrong, nothing to fear.
Nothing wrong, nothing to fear. Nothing wrong, nothing to fear.

 

Fairy nuff.

Not yet.

 

You don't wanna go queue jumping round your neck of the woods.
You'll end up wiv a tag on yer toe.

 

Heh. Yes, avoid Sainsbury's filling stations.

 

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:11:24 -0700 (PDT), AndrewR

I thought they were just putting those spiking things down.

Anyway, JP hasn't appeared yet so there can't be a fuel panic.

 

Not round here they arn't and we have 4 Shell stations in a 3 mile radius.

 

So how do you take into account that Jean and I often use 2 bikes
and fill them up at the pump at the same time ?

Do we get 2 x 15ukp or 1x 35ukp ?

 

You ride like a gurl.

Lets see now, the XJR.
Main = 17 litres (near as dammit)
Fuel = 116.9/litre

I'll let you figure the rest out.

 

I paid 132.9p/l this afternoon for unleaded at Scotch Corner services on
the A1.

That price would definitely put me off buying for my private vehicles,
but being as I was in my work van, and was nearly empty, I had no
choice.
Alan.

 

That's diesel money. Are you sure it was unleaded?

 

Depends how much money you have.

 

Yep, diesel at 136.9 - I thought I'd picked the wrong pump up when I saw
the price.
Alan.