That surprised me. I always thought the spores were grown on dung and therefore self heating. Well, we live and learn.
There are only 8,380 petrol stations and 32,697,408 vehicles in the UK, it is not exactly hard to work out or difficult to see that what we have been experiencing is when many âpanic buyâ so decide to fill up at the same time!
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" Sainsburyâs has said it is not currently experiencing any issues at its petrol stations, of which there are around 300. " says The Sun a few minutes ago.
'Brian Madderson, chairman of the PRA, said a lack of fuel remained a âreally big problemâ in London and the south east.
And he told Sky News: "We have just completed our survey of over 1,000 sites across the UK and the situation is very much better than it was yesterday.
"68% of sites have both grades, 16% have one type or the other, and so only 16% - compared to 27% yesterday - have no fuel and are dry.â
No doubt all those who now drive electric vehicles
are feeling very smug in all this!
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A BBC News reporter interviewed a smirking white van man this morning in Ealing. âIâm alrightâ, he said, âIâve just put in ÂŁ100 of diesel. That should keep me going for a few days.â Smug git.
What a shame that he probably couldnât get his deliveries done
on time due to being held-up by massive queues for fuel!
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By the time we got there and back, OGF, weâd have emptied our tanks & would have to start all over!!!
Please put some diesel in the post!
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He looked like a builder type rather than a delivery man.
Well, in that case what a shame he didnât notice his tyres were
all let down while he was being interviewed!
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Wait until he needs some new batteries!
Itâs not that there are more cars down South Muddy, but doesnât everyone drive 4.2 litre Range Rovers or Chelsea Tractors? I thought it was the prefered mode of transport in the smokeâŠ
Not to Eddie Stobart apparently Swim, most of his trucks run mainly on gas. I had a visit from a friend yesterday who lives down Rugby way near one of Eddies Haulage depots and Eddie has just built several massive gas storage units to supply his fleet. None of that Electric nonsense for EddieâŠ
See what Wiki has to sayâŠ
Fuel[edit]
The Eddie Stobart fleet includes a number of Volvo FM dual fuel trucks, running primarily on liquid natural gas, with diesel as a backup.[24]
And Eddie Stobart BazâŠ
Itâs our own fault Percy for ordering everything online from Amazon etcâŠSince covid the white van men must have multiplied ten times. And we wouldnât be very pleased if our Tesco orders and other stuff got delivered late⊠
No doubt Eddie Stobartâs always been feeling smug anyway. The last documentary I saw featuring this company showed that not only were there refuelling stations all over the country, they also had their own fuel tankers. This recent shortage of fuel probably never bothered Eddie Stobart at all. No idea of how they were affected by the shortage of HGV drivers, although it seemed a well-run company wages were never mentioned.
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In my opinion gas propelled vehicles are the way to go Baz, itâs a pity that our government are being bullied into a totally unpractical and environment damaging means of transport. Perhaps itâs not so much about saving the planet as having less vehicles on the road.
Apparently after the lockdowns there was so much surplus fuel that they ran out of places to store it. Because fuel does go âOffâ the time is right to create panic to recover the lost tax and flog it before itâs no good.
Suckers down London will go for itâŠ
@ Zaphod,. Very crafty Zaphod, all the pink areas are mostly moorland etc !! 
One petrol station can more than supply the few yokels that live there !! 
Apologies to OGF ??
Donkeyman! 
Well you know what thought did âŠâŠâŠ
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@Baz46 Yes, thatâs true Baz, , we probably have mums car, dadâs car, sonâs car and
daughters car, all in the the queue at the same time ??
What a mess we have created !!
Donkeyman! 
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Is the same as LPG ?
I remember one of my dadâs friends had a LPG conversion fitted to his BMW 7 years ago as he used to do a lot of driving to visit relatives in Germany.
But have we created it? Perhaps it is a result of all our industries, that used to be close to the towns and villages were we lived, being slowly rundown and finally closed? People used to work close to where they lived. Nowadays though we have been more or less forced to work a long way from home, hence the need for transport, usually in the form of cars. Many did this and nowadays people travel many miles for work, even travelling abroad for the week.
Didnât all this start many years ago, in fact before an MP, Norman Tebbit, made his famous comment âGet on your bikeâ, which was the advice given to millions of unemployed people in the 1980s?
I found the article on the link below to be interesting in how things were then, which was a long time after problems with having to travel for work first started. Off topic I know, also interesting though, are the comments in respect of immigration at that time in 2007 compared to now in 2021:
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After reading your post OGF and Bevâs I had a search and came up with a couple of interesting articles on hydrogen fuel and LPG. Itâs interesting to see how these have been developed, especially in view of the way the usual fuels are due to be phased out:
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