Petrol tanks have a finite capacity. Regardless of how much panic buying there is, people can only fill their cars. People often fill their tanks when they go to a petrol station.
The only difference between during the supposed protests and normality was that everyone decided to fill their tank at the same time. Normally, people randomly pick different times and it gets spread over a week or more.
Fuel Protest Moron on 5 Live clbutticThey've just interviewed Andrew Spence, the Haulier, Farmer and all-round Yorkie-Munching f***tard who is organising the "peaceful" protests up here in the north east...
There was plenty of fuel available, it just wasn't at the pumps.
And I am enbreastled to call it sanctimonious. Hah.
In that case yes. However, if there were blockades, they would have.
People realised (based on reports in the media) there was a chance of fuel protests resulting in lengthy delays in petrol stations being refilled after runnig out.
People who had very little fuel re-fuelled as normal.
People who had (say) a half tank decided to re-fuel in order to get some of the fuel before it ran out.
The options are:
No protests, No panic-buying: Normalilty.
No protests, panic-buying: fuel stations run out for a short period.
Protests, no panic buying: People "lucky" enough to run low on fuel before the stations run empty get a full tank. People who had fuel at the start get nothing.
Protests, panic buying: Everyone has an equal chance of getting fuel. Anarchy breaks out. The world ends.
There was no shortage. There were no blockades. There were just empty petrol stations.
Of course there was. There was plenty fuel at the refineries, no blockades, and no fuel at the pumps. It was a question, not my atbreastude. Some people do have that atbreastude. Why are they wrong? -- David Taylor
