Busy at tesco's petrol pump

[Fly]

I'd filled up our other car

How many cars you got ? LOL

[Big Dave]

I'd filled up our other car

How many cars you got ? LOL

More than one, obviously..... 

[Slacker]

Smaller queues than normal at Clay X Tesco this teatime. Had diesel but unleaded getting low. Pay at the pump wasn't working and that expensive super unleaded was out of stock but that's only aimed at people who buy bottled water.

[Big Dave]

Smaller queues than normal at Clay X Tesco this teatime. Had diesel but unleaded getting low. Pay at the pump wasn't working and that expensive super unleaded was out of stock but that's only aimed at people who buy bottled water.

....or those who ride motorcycles with fibreglass tanks or drive older cars - ethanol in petrol can cause all sorts of problems with their fuel systems. Most super unleaded is ethanol-free.

[Slacker]

I stand corrected

[Big Dave]

I stand corrected

Nasty stuff is ethanol, it's 'hygroscopic' - it absorbs moisture from the air so all that fuel stockpiled at home is going to cause problems when it's poured into petrol tanks after weeks or months in storage.

[Slacker]

Whilst the stockpiling of fuel was triggered by government comments, and having sympathy for the woman who set herself on fire, for the family to totally blame them for her accident is going a bit far.

For someone who transfers petrol from a can to a glass container in the kitchen with the cooker on, it makes you wonder how she has managed to survive 46 years so far.

[Old Cruser]

Is there another panic going on re- fuel. Tesco's were running low again, very busy and some pumps out of fuel. When I asked an assistant I was told they hadn't been having deliveries for some reason - but were hoping to get one tonight.
Not heard how the talks are going so off to listen to the news.

[Big Dave]

A few weeks ago, during the panic buying, I went in just after 8 one morning to find the row of pumps nearest the store coned off. As I got to the front of the queue to pay the cashier was on the phone to the store asking for more staff 'cos she couldn't cope and had coned off some pumps to slow things down.

I wish they'd fix the 'pay at the pump' on Pump 5; I always drive forward to free pumps and twice that one has caught me out...

[Old Cruser]

There were the yellow notices hung over some today.

[Old Cruser]

I heard on sky news that the union have recommended that the tanker drivers reject the offers on the table