Petrol queues -

[Observer II]

Thought I might top up for the year by calling in Sainsburys for petrol -  normal entrances were blocked off and the queue ran back into the car park.  Why can't retailers put a limit on sales to block the panic buyers ?    

[ninearches]

Unfortunately, this country has a news network that creates shortages & panic buying by irresponsible ,sensationalist reporting.

[Evil Sid]

Some retailers are putting limits on sales of £30.00.

The problem is that people will just go from garage to garage until they have a full tank.

Still whilst people are queuing for petrol you can nip down the supermarket and buy up all the toilet rolls.......🤣

[Observer II]

Perhaps this shows the depth of the public's love affair with the car and a measure of the resistance that any Gov will get in denying the car to the Prols.   According to Jeff Taylor, on Youtube; the advise to Gov is that the major cause of pollution is the making of cars, not driving them; so the Green lobby will eventually meet with a huge back lash from motorheads.  You may hear the faint laughter from heaven - or hell !    😉

[Latchford Locks]

Why not just put your car in the garage for a week ,

I did that 10 years ago .(when I retired)and it's still there

Bus Pass for normal trips to town and a rare taxi in emergency or for the rest  of small trips walk.

 

[Observer II]

That's just you Latch, the vast majority of folk are in love with their cars, as it gets them where "they" want to go, "when" they want to go;  and as for the kids being green, the first thing they want after leaving school is a driving test and a car.  

[Latchford Locks]

39 minutes ago, Observer II said:

That's just you Latch, the vast majority of folk are in love with their cars, as it gets them where "they" want to go, "when" they want to go;    

I'm just saying that there is a choice and sure if you love your car that much then put up with the queues 

I'm totally happy(and much better off financially) not having one

 

[ninearches]

I don't know if i am in a minority of 1 but i cba getting into & driving a car these days. There is no pleasure whatsoever ,everywhere you go there are queues ,holdups ,no pleasure at all. We are going to Scarborough in a couple of weeks & letting the train take the strain all for £50 return with unlimited bus pass use when we arrive. We even went to Southport by train a few weeks ago.

[Observer II]

Whilst I've never been a motorhead, viewing my car simply as a metal box with wheels that gets me effortlessly from A to B,  so basically a mobility chair !    But there are a large number of car owner, who are also voters, who will not forgive any Gov that takes away their treasured possession; which is what is going to happen over the next 10 years, and it will be the great unwashed who lose their cars NOT the wealthy elite, they may move on to helicopters !    😉

[Confused52]

3 hours ago, ninearches said:

I don't know if i am in a minority of 1 but i cba getting into & driving a car these days. There is no pleasure whatsoever ,everywhere you go there are queues ,holdups ,no pleasure at all. We are going to Scarborough in a couple of weeks & letting the train take the strain all for £50 return with unlimited bus pass use when we arrive. We even went to Southport by train a few weeks ago.

I also tend to use plusbus when I can too. Also remember your bus pass is valid everywhere in England, if you have one, on normal service buses so can be valid where plusbus isn't. 

[Evil Sid]

Well i for one can't wait to get my bus pass. only another two years to go until i reach the updated pension age, unless they put i up again.

Current travel by bus to town and back is the equivalent of two and a half litres of petrol, even at todays prices. (That is one eight of a tank for my car).

With the mileage i get that is around twenty miles as oppose to a mike and a half on the bus.

[ninearches]

When you are paying bus fares like that Sid , it is hardly likely to encourage people to leave the car at home & use public transport.