Petrol Panic

There is only a possibility that fuel delivery drivers will go on strike in the UK. A week's notice has to be given before a strike takes place. Despite all this there is panic buying at the fuel stations with some garages running out of petrol whilst yesterday fuel purchases rose by 170%. Who knows what will happen if the fuel delivery drivers really decide to go on strike? Why does there have to be panic buying when the situation has hardly changed?

The attitudes of some people never cease to amaze me especially when taking advice from the government. When govern ministers offer sensible advice about not drinking too much every one ignores it.

When the government tries to recommend that we fully adopt the metric system like most other civilised countries we have protests. Perhaps avoirdupois sausages taste better than metric ones. So we ignore the recommendations.

When a government minister suggests something daft, rather than stupid, like filling up your tank even though it is unnecessary many people comply without question. What has happened to commonsense? Perhaps it's the early hot and sunny  weather? Why waste petrol and time to fill up unnecessarily? This form of behaviour just gets in the way of people who have to fill up out of necessity like policemen and doctors.

Hopefully all this madness will quietly die down and  there will not be a strike. I hate to think what will happen if there is a disruption to fuel supplies - fuel rage at the pumps? Luckily, commonsense usually prevails, even when there is an industrial dispute too.