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Does anyone else think it’s too coincidental that this fuel shortage happened very soon after @KillerHERTZ got his ever so thirsty G Wagon? 
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It was aliens…Does anyone else think it’s too coincidental that this fuel shortage happened very soon after @KillerHERTZ got his ever so thirsty G Wagon?
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Marginal gains! It all adds up.
I have to say that with a combination of retirement and living in the Far East (of England!) I have hardly noticed the fuel delivery issues.
A journey of some 140 miles was required last Thursday to a meeting near Royston. I used the A8 to travel the A11 out of Norfolk. After passing quite a number of closed fuel stations, I spotted a small queue at the Newmarket services 40 miles into my travels. A brief 10 min wait and I filled the car with £80 worth of diesel. That's another 750+ mile range.
My wife has been using a combination of 'Vera' the Land Rover and the MX-5 for her current 2 day a week travels to run local Covid stabbing centres.
So today we had to go to the city (Norfolk has only one!) and to get fuel in Vera. Straight to the Asda automat, straight to the pump and filled up....
I do hope other areas of the SE catch up with Norfolk very soon.
A journey of some 140 miles was required last Thursday to a meeting near Royston. I used the A8 to travel the A11 out of Norfolk. After passing quite a number of closed fuel stations, I spotted a small queue at the Newmarket services 40 miles into my travels. A brief 10 min wait and I filled the car with £80 worth of diesel. That's another 750+ mile range.
My wife has been using a combination of 'Vera' the Land Rover and the MX-5 for her current 2 day a week travels to run local Covid stabbing centres.
So today we had to go to the city (Norfolk has only one!) and to get fuel in Vera. Straight to the Asda automat, straight to the pump and filled up....
I do hope other areas of the SE catch up with Norfolk very soon.
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There are still a fair number of stations out of fuel here in southern Bucks, but the queues at the ones that do have fuel are quite short now.
I hope not. I've never been a fan of inbreeding.
"Catching up with Nofolk". Isn't that an oxymeron?
I filled the Merc up today as my Mrs wanted to take it out to Bucks and finds the concept of driving a Fiat 500 on a motorway unappealing. It's actually fine, but that's not the point. I knew my local Esso had taken a delivery last night so I headed round first thing.
The queue was physically a lot shorter than it had been on Sunday but it was also moving a bit slower as one aisle of pumps had run out already.
Summary; better but by no means back to normal.
Sports SUV is an oxymoron! Now where would I rather be Norfolk or London, give me about .00003secs to think about that one....."Catching up with Nofolk". Isn't that an oxymeron?
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My Sis lives in Norfolk, they have boats and other floaty things - i think it's a great place. My wife and i did some cycle touring all around it. It's deceivingly hard work. Few hills, but of course there is then no period of recovery so you're pushing the pedals near 100% of the time. Was a bit of a wake up call as really hadn't considered it!
Only joshing, you know I love the place as does my OH. Regulary visit the north coat and can often be seen somewhere in the broads or in Norwich.
Due to Norfolk being 'God's ironing board' my daily step count has increased by 50% after my stay in the foothills of Staffs Moorlands.
Walking is much easier than having to go up 500' in the 1/2 mile behind my former house.
I'm up to about 8 miles a day now, and my young Border Collie about 4 times as much as that....
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You'll be good for the Nijmegen Marches next year!
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At risk of thread drift, how's it going with the new additions to the family Ant??Yep.
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Good general logistics explanation, from SKY News, of why panic buying blew up the Just in time fuel delivery system last week.
Petrol crisis: How an extra five litres of petrol helped cause the country to grind to a halt
Petrol crisis: How an extra five litres of petrol helped cause the country to grind to a halt
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On the news today, think it was Quality Street chocs, the company was saying they may be in short supply by Xmas due to distribution, blah, blah, blah. Isn't this a good way for any manufacturer to increase sales/ get rid of old stock or are the great British public to bright to fall for that.
Right off to fill up the car, done five miles since the last fill up & buy some Quality Street, well quite a few Quality Street cos they may be in short supply
Right off to fill up the car, done five miles since the last fill up & buy some Quality Street, well quite a few Quality Street cos they may be in short supply
This ’just in time’ model has been with us for decades now, but a huge acceleration in demand on a fragile system was bound to cause havoc.
I was at a new Toyota plant near Tokyo in the early 90’s and asked just how much stock was in hand for production. “About 10 mins” was the answer!
Toyota had Dunlop build a plant next door to supply tyres, and my colleague was delighted to get me to check the temperature of the tyres going on the cars in build. Still very warm from the production process next door
It seems we are not actually that far off that model in fuel deliveries now!
I was at a new Toyota plant near Tokyo in the early 90’s and asked just how much stock was in hand for production. “About 10 mins” was the answer!
Toyota had Dunlop build a plant next door to supply tyres, and my colleague was delighted to get me to check the temperature of the tyres going on the cars in build. Still very warm from the production process next door
It seems we are not actually that far off that model in fuel deliveries now!
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I've also seen a report that forecourts were reducing their normal +/-40% stock level of "old" E5 petrol ahead of the change to E10 so many were down to +/-30% or a little less when the news started the panic buying. What is the point of forecourts only using 40% of their available storage? I understand the "just in time" concept and cost of holding extra stock, but only using 40% seems low for such an essential product!
