BP & Esso having fuel supply issues

[rjfp1962]

BP are having fuel supply issues as are Esso who also supply a number of Tesco Alliance forecourts..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58645712

[basherX]

Yup. I’m pretty much out and just went down to my local BP. No diesel and not much unleaded left. Guy said all local BPs not getting deliveries. Already lots of manic people heading off on the hunt for fuel.

[beko1987]

Joy, I have maybe 50 miles of fuel left... and my local station is a BP or Esso...

"Sorry boss, got to WFH again as I can't get any diesel"

Is there anything not going TITSUP in the country atm? Greener fields they said...

[Roderick Spode]

Our local Shell garages have been out of diesel and V-Power unleaded variously for the last few weeks. Most times I go down it seems to be pot luck what will be available.

[efcgriswold]

More driver shortages. Wonder what the pay is for driving a bomb around making deliveries.

[ARHarh]

efcgriswold said:

More driver shortages. Wonder what the pay is for driving a bomb around making deliveries.

According to this £35k
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-...

[Superhoop]

ARHarh said:

According to this £35k
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-...

That is dated 2012.. With current driver shortages, I suspect it's quite a bit more than that currently - There was an article in the news recently saying that Waitrose/Tesco amongst others were offering around £55k

[efcgriswold]

I’d go with the 50k + for this role. ADR required along with everything else. I’m guessing even those drivers have had poor conditions. What are the chances Shell employ agency rather than employ their own?

[Wills2]

The issue started last week at my local BP forecourt with super diesel and unleaded.

We really are having a throw back to the 70's at the moment.

[egor110]

Wills2 said:

The issue started last week at my local BP forecourt with super diesel and unleaded.

We really are having a throw back to the 70's at the moment.

Not really .

We're not forced to work a 3 day week to ration electricity.

[Unknown_User]

egor110 said:

Wills2 said:

The issue started last week at my local BP forecourt with super diesel and unleaded.

We really are having a throw back to the 70's at the moment.

Not really .

We're not forced to work a 3 day week to ration electricity.

Yet?

[ElectricSoup]

Wills2 said:

The issue started last week at my local BP forecourt with super diesel and unleaded.

We really are having a throw back to the 70's at the moment.

Funny what happens when you reset your trading and migration relationships with your nearest neighbours and closest partners to what they were in the 70s. Who could ever have predicted that.

• waaah waahhh that's not fair it's ALL NASTY WASTY COVID * incoming.

Yeah, COVID is partly responsible, but the other thing, which we have all "moved on" from, according to Kwasi Kwarteng on Radio 4 yesterday, is a huge aggravating factor, because, as we can see by osberving empirical reality, these sort of problems are not happening on the same scale as us, in other EUropean countries, ones which have decent governments and rational electorates. And Hungary and Poland of course.

[Wills2]

egor110 said:

Wills2 said:

The issue started last week at my local BP forecourt with super diesel and unleaded.

We really are having a throw back to the 70's at the moment.

Not really .

We're not forced to work a 3 day week to ration electricity.

Many people will have to ration their use of it due to the rising cost and Boris's chickens have only just started to think about coming home to roost, it's going to get a lot worse.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Being reported on BBC News, so the panic buying will now begin. Therefore if you haven’t filled up already I would imagine you will now be queuing for the next couple of days.

Which is nice.

[J4CKO]

If only there was a type of car where the energy required to power it could be delivered seamlessly via pipe, or maybe even a wire direct to your house ?

Wouldn't that be marvelous and obviate the need for massive lorries towing huge containers of extremely volatile liquid petrochemical products, just plug it in when you aren't using it and come back to it and its ready to go.

[Sheets Tabuer]

I remember my first winter of discontent.

[PDP76]

I’m not seeing any problems at the pumps ( yet ) Kingsbury refinery isn’t too far away so maybe I won’t see too much of a problem with fuel.
Speaking of Kingsbury refinery and wages !
They are looking for a couple of tanker drivers and are paying 50k p/a plus bonus schemes and retention schemes.

[neilr]

Surely Brexit voters will have found filling up with all that sovereignty and control makes it a non-issue. oh wait.

[Jawls]

PDP76 said:

I’m not seeing any problems at the pumps ( yet ) Kingsbury refinery isn’t too far away so maybe I won’t see too much of a problem with fuel.
Speaking of Kingsbury refinery and wages !
They are looking for a couple of tanker drivers and are paying 50k p/a plus bonus schemes and retention schemes.

Boring nitpicking from me, but Kingsbury doesn’t have a refinery. Rather, it’s a collection of terminals all broadly next to each other.

Edited by Jawls on Thursday 23 September 17:21

Edited by Jawls on Thursday 23 September 17:21

[vixen1700]

Queues at my local Esso this evening.