UK-bound drivers fill up to beat the forecourt panic
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UK-bound drivers fill up to beat the forecourt panic
ISLANDERS travelling to the UK made sure they were ‘pumped up’ with fuel yesterday.
To avoid the mad panic and hour-long queues at petrol stations in the UK, people travelling to Poole on the Condor Ferry made sure they had filled their cars in advance.
Britons were recently prompted by ministers to fill their tanks to beat a strike by tanker drivers that has not been called yet and as a result a nationwide panic set in.
It was reported in the UK that petrol prices soared and more than 100 forecourts had run dry. Others were shut on the orders of police worried about ‘fuel rage’.
(from thisisguernsey)
To avoid the mad panic and hour-long queues at petrol stations in the UK, people travelling to Poole on the Condor Ferry made sure they had filled their cars in advance.
Britons were recently prompted by ministers to fill their tanks to beat a strike by tanker drivers that has not been called yet and as a result a nationwide panic set in.
It was reported in the UK that petrol prices soared and more than 100 forecourts had run dry. Others were shut on the orders of police worried about ‘fuel rage’.
(from thisisguernsey)
Re: UK-bound drivers fill up to beat the forecourt panic
I dont understand how the Press could make a story out of this, doesnt everyone fill their fuel tank up before leaving for the UK?
cockney-
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Re: UK-bound drivers fill up to beat the forecourt panic
Just what I was thinking, Cockney.
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Re: UK-bound drivers fill up to beat the forecourt panic
I thought it was illegal to take a car on the ferry with a full tank!!!
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Re: UK-bound drivers fill up to beat the forecourt panic
The last time I used Condor (with a car), the rule was that tanks should not be over-filled (i.e. fuel leaking out of the filler cap). Condor staff reserved the right to remove fuel from the tank if this was thought to be the case.
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Re: UK-bound drivers fill up to beat the forecourt panic
have always gone to the uk with a full tank and just enough to get home at english prices x
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