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Dunners wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:36 pm Whatever you do, do not lock yourself into a fixed tariff right now.

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 4:08 pm There are some parts of the Atacama Desert that have never recorded rainfall.

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:41 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58824121

Energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds

faldO wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:09 pm Seems like the shortage of fuel over the past few weeks was more to do with the switchover from E5 to E10 fuel as it was to do with Brexit and HGV driver shortages.

Garages had already been running down their tanks from the beginning of September, leaving tanks only 75% full. When a handful of BP stations among the 1000s of petrol stations nationwide reported forecourt closures the BBC decided to report this as a nationwide fuel shortage all over the 6 o'clock news, and the rest is history.

Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said the data showed that the fuel crisis had been an “unintended consequence” of the Government’s switch to greener petrol.

“For weeks we had been emptying our tanks of E5, the old fuel, as fast as we could to get ready for E10. We had all run our petrol stocks down,” Mr Madderson said.

“So when the panic buying started, many of our members ran out pretty quickly. Then the shortage of HGV drivers meant we couldn’t get supplies of petrol or diesel quickly enough.

“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence: we couldn’t cope with the surge in demand.”

Ronnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:29 pm

faldO wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:09 pm Seems like the shortage of fuel over the past few weeks was more to do with the switchover from E5 to E10 fuel as it was to do with Brexit and HGV driver shortages.

Garages had already been running down their tanks from the beginning of September, leaving tanks only 75% full. When a handful of BP stations among the 1000s of petrol stations nationwide reported forecourt closures the BBC decided to report this as a nationwide fuel shortage all over the 6 o'clock news, and the rest is history.

Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said the data showed that the fuel crisis had been an “unintended consequence” of the Government’s switch to greener petrol.

“For weeks we had been emptying our tanks of E5, the old fuel, as fast as we could to get ready for E10. We had all run our petrol stocks down,” Mr Madderson said.

“So when the panic buying started, many of our members ran out pretty quickly. Then the shortage of HGV drivers meant we couldn’t get supplies of petrol or diesel quickly enough.

“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence: we couldn’t cope with the surge in demand.”

Yep, lots of ‘‘twagheads were posting this on my social media.

faldO wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:46 pm

Ronnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:29 pm

faldO wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:09 pm Seems like the shortage of fuel over the past few weeks was more to do with the switchover from E5 to E10 fuel as it was to do with Brexit and HGV driver shortages.

Garages had already been running down their tanks from the beginning of September, leaving tanks only 75% full. When a handful of BP stations among the 1000s of petrol stations nationwide reported forecourt closures the BBC decided to report this as a nationwide fuel shortage all over the 6 o'clock news, and the rest is history.

Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said the data showed that the fuel crisis had been an “unintended consequence” of the Government’s switch to greener petrol.

“For weeks we had been emptying our tanks of E5, the old fuel, as fast as we could to get ready for E10. We had all run our petrol stocks down,” Mr Madderson said.

“So when the panic buying started, many of our members ran out pretty quickly. Then the shortage of HGV drivers meant we couldn’t get supplies of petrol or diesel quickly enough.

“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence: we couldn’t cope with the surge in demand.”

Yep, lots of ‘‘twagheads were posting this on my social media.

Standard procedure - don’t like the message, shoot the messenger

Constanza wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:59 pm They're all knackered

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 8:16 pm

Constanza wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:59 pm They're all knackered

Totally screwed.

One of them (Octopus?) was caught by the regulator offloading their higher use customers to Scotch Gas etc because they are making a loss on their accountd. They have been fired back to Octopus.

Its the complete failure of an artificial market created to feather the nest of the Tories pals in the City.