Fuel Shortage

[RZ1]

Or just scare mongering by the DM again

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091004/Pe...

[EDLT]

Scare mongering by the wail. However if all the people who drive around with £20 in the tank did go and fill up just in case then there will be a fuel shortage

[GroundEffect]

LOL @ 'Dundee' refinery. They can't even do basic UK geography. They're only 60 miles away...

[GBDG]

OH FFS! How to guarantee fuel shortages! Publish a poorly researched story about it. No doubt there will be a queue of mongs at every filling station in the land right now.

[MX7]

There's a bit of a contrast between the DM and the FT.

FT said:

With chronic overcapacity in the industry, European refiners have been hit hard by the economic slowdown which has weakened demand for transport fuel and squeezed profit margins.

........

Analysts say the refinery’s customers can make up the shortfall in supplies with deliveries from the Esso Fawley refinery in Southampton and Total’s Lindsey plant in North Lincolnshire, as well as imported products.

FT: They closed because there was too much being produced, and the void can easily be filled.

DM: THE SKY IS FALLING IN!!!

[10 Pence Short]

OMG! A shortage of fuel? I'm just pop

[versus]

holy crap!! I better go fill my tank up pronto, and a few empty barrels to sell on ebay later.

[Mr2Mike]

Where can I buy half a dozen 25L jerry cans?

[VR6 Turbo]

I know its terrible but I cant stop laughing when I see Danny Alexander. that is a face only a mother could love.

VR

[mattmoxon]

I did wonder why the petrol station was busy this morning. I hate it when stuff like this happens it makes those of us that always brim our cars look like the tard panic buyers.

[Scuffers]

they really are fkwhits!

since when is it:

"one of the UK's biggest refineries"

err... Hello?

[RZ1]

just the respone i was expecting.

One of the guys in the offce has just asked mewhat im going to do about filling up my cars, he only has 1 i have a few

[VR6 Turbo]

mattmoxon said:

I did wonder why the petrol station was busy this morning. I hate it when stuff like this happens it makes those of us that always brim our cars look like the tard panic buyers.

I don't understand the concept of not brimming? I know a young lass that hates filling up so she just puts £20 in. after explaining that as £20 lasts a week then a brimmed tank would last 3 weeks, she brims it now.

VR

[Liquid Tuna]

VR6 Turbo said:

I don't understand the concept of not brimming? I know a young lass that hates filling up so she just puts £20 in. after explaining that as £20 lasts a week then a brimmed tank would last 3 weeks, she brims it now.

VR

If your tank is full it weighs more, car weighs more, mpg decreases.

[morgrp]

People who read the Daily Fail should be taken outside and shot

[mnkiboy]

Liquid Tuna said:

If your tank is full it weighs more, car weighs more, mpg decreases.

By what percentage does your mpg decrease? 10%? 25%? 40%?

I bet it costs more to make an extra 2 trips to the petrol station than it does to carry around an extra 20kg for a couple of hundred miles.

Edited by mnkiboy on Tuesday 24th January 15:26

[VR6 Turbo]

Liquid Tuna said:

VR6 Turbo said:

I don't understand the concept of not brimming? I know a young lass that hates filling up so she just puts £20 in. after explaining that as £20 lasts a week then a brimmed tank would last 3 weeks, she brims it now.

VR

If your tank is full it weighs more, car weighs more, mpg decreases.

By how much? I average 19.5 MPG in the golf with a 55 litre tank. I think the main problem is I cant fold the rear seats to offset the weight of the fuel as I don't have any.

VR

[Liquid Tuna]

mnkiboy said:

By what percentage does your mpg decrease? 10%? 25%? 40%

It'll depend on how full your tank is and how much extra weight it's creating at any point in time.

[jagnet]

morgrp said:

People who read the Daily Fail should be taken outside and shot

I don't read the Mail, nor had I seen your post until someone told me about it. As a result I felt that I absolutely had to log in and read it so that I could feel personally offended on behalf of Daily Mail readers everywhere. I demand a public apology!

On the plus side, if many do panic fill and brim their tanks, then in a few days the petrol stations will be lovely and quiet in time for me to go and fill mine.

I can't help but think that were it not for the Mail's usual over reaction no one would notice any difference, but their predictions of doom just become self fulfilling.

[morgrp]

VR6 Turbo said:

By how much? I average 19.5 MPG in the golf with a 55 litre tank. I think the main problem is I cant fold the rear seats to offset the weight of the fuel as I don't have any.

VR

You'll also use more fuel on more frequent trips to the pumps if you just shove 20quid in