As an HGV driver, in your car, would you forego your turn at the petrol/diesel pump or go without for an NHS worker?
So many variables. Am I a lorry driver delivering turf or portacabins? Or am I delivering medical supplies, fuel or food? Is the NHS worker a nurse, doctor, surgeon or merely a pen pusher? Who is more vital than the other.
To sum up; nah, would I ■■■■■■■■.
I’d expect an estate agent to forego his turn at the pump for me.
Janos:
As an HGV driver, in your car, would you forego your turn at the petrol/diesel pump or go without for an NHS worker?
I am an essential worker, i filled up two weeks ago and as i don’t have many miles to drive to the depot i have half as tank left, i will not be panic buying so everyone can go before me. 
Joking aside i heard a garage owner on 5 live drive earlier saying if the queuing doesn’t stop he is bringing security in first thing Thursday morning and for the first hour only those who are essential workers are allowed to buy fuel.
I guess we wold be classed as essential workers if that was the case in our local filling stations.
I have a cunning plan Baldrick. How do you prove that you’re an essential worker? Do you don your natty nurses uniform or do you turn up in Eddie gear complete with dirty hi vis? My plan is to buy all of Eagerbeaver’s old uniforms as a job lot for £50 and then punt them all out on flea bay at a ridiculous profit!
This time next year Rodney……
More divide and rule ■■■■■■■■.
High time we stopped playing into the govts, and their owners, hands.
How they must have ■■■■■■ themselves in the socially distanced subsidised (by us) house-of-commons bar reading about their lab rats fighting each other over some bloody petrol, bet they can’t wait to see the results when they start to sabotage food production and distribution.
What others do, mincing along the cracks in the pavement to please self appointed apparatchiks who would have been right at home in 30’s Germany or Stalin’s USSR, is up to them and their pride in themselves or lack of it.
I ain’t one of their experiments, i’m no different no better and expect no different treatment than any other person who works for a living, they can stick their power trips and whatever the have in line for the next stage in operation fear up their collective arses.
Don’t want special privelidges, don’t want any favours from the likes of them paid for with money taken with menaces from other working class people, don’t want the freedoms they stole held in front like one would a donkey with a carrot so long as you’re a good boy and do this today, ain’t playing their silly games by their rules, suggest everyone else does the same and tell 'em to sod off.
the maoster:
I have a cunning plan Baldrick. How do you prove that you’re an essential worker? Do you don your natty nurses uniform or do you turn up in Eddie gear complete with dirty hi vis? My plan is to buy all of Eagerbeaver’s old uniforms as a job lot for £50 and then punt them all out on flea bay at a ridiculous profit!
This time next year Rodney……
Well the NHS workers have had these for many months, my clock card has a picture of me and the council details on it, as for everyone else i haven’t a clue i dont own the garage!
I drive a diesel car so no worries about getting diesel 
Juddian:
More divide and rule ■■■■■■■■.
High time we stopped playing into the govts, and their owners, hands.
If the garage owner wants to allow essential services priority for the first hour that’s his decision if you don’t like it tough ■■■■ and as its unlikely to be a garage near you i wouldn’t worry your little head about it.
bbez:
I drive a diesel car so no worries about getting diesel
You gonna syphon it out of the truck?
Bin Man:
Juddian:
More divide and rule ■■■■■■■■.
High time we stopped playing into the govts, and their owners, hands.If the garage owner wants to allow essential services priority for the first hour that’s his decision if you don’t like it tough [zb] and as its unlikely to be a garage near you i wouldn’t worry your little head about it.
hit a nerve did i, diddums.
Juddian:
Bin Man:
Juddian:
More divide and rule ■■■■■■■■.
High time we stopped playing into the govts, and their owners, hands.If the garage owner wants to allow essential services priority for the first hour that’s his decision if you don’t like it tough [zb] and as its unlikely to be a garage near you i wouldn’t worry your little head about it.
hit a nerve did i, diddums.
It would appear the nere that was hit is a lot closer to your home than mine, don’t let it ruin your night!
Bin Man:
Juddian:
Bin Man:
Juddian:
More divide and rule ■■■■■■■■.
High time we stopped playing into the govts, and their owners, hands.If the garage owner wants to allow essential services priority for the first hour that’s his decision if you don’t like it tough [zb] and as its unlikely to be a garage near you i wouldn’t worry your little head about it.
hit a nerve did i, diddums.
It would appear the nere that was hit is a lot closer to your home than mine, don’t let it ruin your night!
It won’t, but thanks for caring, be amusing to see you wave your council identity card like a magic wand allowing you straight to the front of the fuel queue 
I hear shares in Tesla are on the up…
Interest in EVs soar
In the long Run BP will regret this
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Janos:
would you forego your turn at the petrol/diesel pump or go without for an NHS worker?
Seems to me there are a lot of people claiming exceptional circumstances to stake their claim at the pumps for remaining fossil fuel supplies.Bearing in mind all those usually calling on the government to abolish fossil fuel useage in favour of going all electric if not using a bicycle or bus.
The Green Revolution is here rejoice Boris has caved in if not enthusiatically on board no surprise there.
Or are they really just hypocrites ok for others but not for them.
No surprise ask the question of most ‘climate’ change zealots if they’ve switched to an EV or only use public transport and gone all electric at home the answer is always the same.
Can’t afford it, public transport not good enough etc etc etc.
What essential worker even means? Just another BS term from a time where every breathing human being was considered a biohazard.
My kids dont eat if I dont put meat on the table, so to them I guess I am an essential worker…
By the way, I thought I’d drop this one here
There is a strong whiff of ‘them and us’ to the clamour from the unions and Labour for public sector privilege.
I would of thought that covid and the current situation has shown how we all rely on each other, and if we neglect to appreciate that, then we find an important service sector breaks down. We knew years ago there was no new blood coming into this industry…but who knew how precarious the CO2 supply was, and how essential it is.
It would appear the nere that was hit is a lot closer to your home than mine, don’t let it ruin your night!
It won’t, but thanks for caring, be amusing to see you wave your council identity card like a magic wand allowing you straight to the front of the fuel queue
To put the record straight once a fuel shortage is announced we like the police and other essential services are able to fill up i don’t need to wave my council card at anyone and as the garage i referred to earlier is no where near me i wont be waving my council card to get me straight to the front of the queue here but don’t let those facts stop you from digging that ever deepening hole you are in.
gmccabe13:
Interest in EVs soar
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BP & Shell & Total have been buying EV charging companies in the asset chain in the last 3-4 years than you can shake a stick at. BP is one of the biggest players in UK charging now, They know the writings on the wall & so do their investors.
Shell has bought out Europe’s biggest on-street EV charging company Ubitricity, in Europe/UK Utilities & oil companies have already bought up 79% of EV charging infrastructure. 
The day after the panic buying of fuel (Sept 24th) caused a massive spike in online searches for electric cars. Analysis of Google search data reveals that EV online searches exploded 1,600% on September 24, the day when gas station fuel shortages became a widespread phenomenon across the country.
insideevs.com/news/536914/fuel- … -searches/