Petrol

[boatman]

AN WE have been this morn to two garages nr us an the signs are up sayin no petroll or deasil this is getting redidalous but we had to quque up to try an get some an people are beggning to lose it by trying to push in but the garage people are now manageing the quques an makin people behave is this the way the world will end ?

[AlanG]

Plenty of fuel up here. But i am not going to subscribe to all this shortage of drivers, pickers, pub staff nonsense. There are too many unemployed people in this country who cannot be bothered to apply for jobs. Our farms are crying out for people but no-one wants to do the work. All to busy getting degrees in sod all.

When i was unemployed after my break down and wanted to get back into work, i worked like a trojan to get another job. even the job centre told me to slow down with my applications.

[peterairfix]

They are all going nuts down here went to my normal stations queuing for miles so I found a small out of the way one only two in front but within ten minutes another ten cars joined just crazy.

[Mark1]

Couldn't get any yesterday, did this morning at sainsbury's but queued for an hour!

[Jim R]

As soon as the press or social media come up with "there may possibly, perhaps, maybe be a shortage of xxxxx" the world goes mad. We have seen it with toilet rolls and pasta and now it's fuel. Our local garage has long queues and some idiots filling cans as well as their cars.
My neighbour's son works at a local petrol station. Yesterday he reckoned they sold at least three times the usual amount of fuel.

[Guest]

I am very happy.

Gave up driving 6 months ago. No fuel bills. No car servicing. No repairs.

Got money selling the car. Sold the car parking space for our flat for £40,000.

Use the buses, free pass (being old) . Got 3 kids on the island & 3 of 4 grandsons now driving.

Superb Taxi Service.. Jersey is only 9*5 miles so not far to go.

Gave up driving as I found concentration levels not good enough. All over 80 should be tested.

Laurie

[AlanG]

Lucky you. Some of us still need to have non-taxpayer funded transport to get around

[Guest]

It will be chickens next.

[Guest]

Lucky you. Some of still need to have non-taxpayer funded transport to get around

Uh uh Alan. I paid more than enough in tax & social security payments in the past to get my over 80 bus pass. Believe me.

Also helping humanity by using shank's pony. Plus keeping the body in a reasonably better shape to release pressure on the Health service.

Interesting the difference from when I started school. 4 miles walk to school 4 miles back. Now it is all car orientated. When I started work at 16 years old. All trains & buses. Few had cars. Plus you had to walk 30 mins to the railway station. However a 15 mile journey on the train into London from Surbiton was quicker than by car or motor bike.

Pauline's knees not so good. So bought this buggy ((top of the range wheel chair). I can push her in it, it has out riggers when folded so she can walk with it. Plus she can also sit in it & watch life go by. But we can still get around.

Apart from not being able to nip to B & Q I have enjoyed not having a car. Remarkable. I have done more walking & enjoyed it as I can see the world rather than concentrate on driving & seeing little of what is going on around me.

Plus I do not have to queue for petrol.

Laurie

[Gern]

My local garage has taken advantage of the shortages and hiked his prices by a few pence per litre since I filled up yesterday. Perhaps I should say ex- local garage as I won't be going back. Money grabbing b*****d!

PS I only filled up today as I've done a long distance run for my brother and that's the best way for me to work out how much I need to charge him for fuel - start with a full tank then fill up when you're back. Whatever you put in is what's been used.

[AlanG]

Uh uh Alan. I paid more than enough in tax & social security payments in the past to get my over 80 bus pass. Believe me.

Maybe you have. But i stand by my comment. Some of us still NEED to have our own transport to get around. Therefore we need access to fuel. Not all of us can live on an island that is only 9.5 miles wide. I don't live on a bus or train route. And even if i did, the time table for our local bus would have me being well over 2 hours late for start of work on normal days and 5.5 hours late on our weaning days. My commute to the farm is a 25 mile trip each way. So i do need my car.

[BattleshipBob]

Thankfully filled both cars last week!

[Jim R]

Alan is right about a car being a necessity for some. My granddaughter started school this term. Despite my daughter putting the school half a mile from home as first choice my granddaughter was allocated a place at a school over two miles away. So that means school runs in a car.

[spanner570]

At 7.30 pm yesterday, I drove past three closed petrol stations. Then went to our local T***o. Straight to the diesel pump, pulled out the long hose :flushed:....and shoved some fuel in our camper.
There was a tanker filling up the station tanks as I was filling up my motor.

Before I get shouted at, I had booked and payed for, a two week camping slot starting mid-next week, so I needed to make sure I had some fuel or risk loosing my camp fee wonga.

...otherwise I would have left it to the selfish, don't give a stuff for others, I'm alright Jack tos***s to fight over the fuel......

Ron

[Tim Marlow]

The haulage industry needs to get a kick up the backside in my opinion….they are blaming everything and everyone except themselves. A 100000 driver shortage doesn’t happen overnight. It has happened because short sighted companies had a business model based on poaching drivers from poorer countries and giving them poor working conditions and basic wages. Once other opportunities came along with comparable salaries and better working conditions, like local delivery for on line shopping companies, they voted with their feet and moved on. If the haulage firms had been investing in training and ensuring working conditions retained their workforce there would be much less of a shortage.