Just noticed as I went past - the pumps are all blocked off. I wonder if it’s just a blip or due to the fuel protests? The Esso up by Horniman seems ok.
I am currently in Norfolk on holiday and all of the BP stations have run out of fuel here. I was panicking about how I’m going to get enough fuel to drive back to London but shell and Esso have fuel so I’m guessing its something to do with BP deliveries!
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Presumably related to this:
According to Zap-Map it does have fuel. Just not the fossil stuff 
I had to go three petrol stations on the way back from Sussex yesterday to get unleaded. The guy in the third garage said it “wasn’t as bad as the last time” but supplies are patchy due to the protests and they have been running empty before they get restocked. Unsurprisingly the chains with cheaper prices are selling out more.
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My daughter had to buy super unleaded yesterday at Bell Geeen Sainsbury’s. She wasn’t pleased as you don’t get as much for your money, even though it is supposed to be better for your car.
The attendant there said they were expecting a delivery yesterday, but whether it got there or not…
It’s extinction rebellion again isn’t it? Glueing themselves to tankers, including two Olympians!
No. The disruptions have been occuring outside of London for some time, well before XR started these blockades.
The same so called “Olympians” have been carrying out dangerous and moronic acts at refineries for some time.
One of them won gold, so it’s more Olympian than ‘Olympian’
Winning a medal at an Olympics does not make you a God - of Olympus or anywhere (other than in Stott’s sad little ego and some bad journalism). Hence “so called Olympian”.
Correct. Becoming a world leader in a sport doesn’t morph you into an ancient fictional deity.
However in modern parlance it does make you an Olympian
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From the people that brought you “medalling”. In this case, they seem to have created hypocritical pratts, who do see themselves as Olympians in the Godlike traditional sense.
These people have travelled the world. Their competitive days are over. They’ve had their 15 mins. No public or lottery money is now paying for their jetsetting (though did I read that Baldwin has some sort of Volvo sponsorship?) and they resent others travelling. Baldwin is especially against cruise ships too and does her utmost to ruin people’s holidays as well as their livelihoods
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You might disagree with their political ideals (or their method of going about them), but please don’t diminish their sporting achievements.
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I’m not sure it’s fair to call them hypocrites – I’d imagine travelling the world gives one an opportunity to observe quite how much trouble it’s in environmentally
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I didn’t belittle their past sporting achievements.
Laura Baldwin got a nice living out of coaching around the world and Etienne Stott was part of a two man canoe team that won a medal. I’m sure they were glad of the huge sponsorship and lottery funding that enabled them to concentrate on that.
But others have to work for a living and they are now using their past glory and 15mins of fame to publicise their disruptive behaviour.
I won’t belittle their past achievements. But they shouldn’t bring them into disrepute.
Nonetheless, the fuel shortage predates the concentrated XR.
A worldwide shortage on diesel was emerging at the beginning of the year, the anticipated ban of red diesel on 1 April caused a new exogenous pressure on domestic supply and Ukraine has had an impact. XR is only the latest in a long string of factors.
XR has been targetting of refineries since they began. Even if you allow for the fact that they upped the ante a couple of weeks ago, they are not enough yo cause this.
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Agreed they’re not enough to cause this. But their actions are dangerous, disruptive to people’s day to day lives and livelihoods. They damage property. They even flew a drone over an oil refinery. That was stupid and put people’s lives at risk.
There is a discussion to be had about the relative dangers of their conduct and the conduct of other players in the energy sector, but, respectfully, this seems to be changing the goalposts from “XR caused the fuel shortage” to “XR are bad regardless”.
For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not a supporter or detractor of them. Part of my job involves analysis of the impact of these pressure groups and other factors. That requires me to be dispassionate.
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XR’s actions are contributing to the fuel crisis, albeit in a small way. Yes, they’re just one, very minor irritant in the overall scale of these things, but a big inconvenience to those individual tanker drivers and others they’ve picked on.
But I’ll bow out of this chain now.
I think we are agreed they have an impact, just disagreeing on the disproportionate focus on their conduct as opposed to the other factors that are having a more significant impact. But I get that you really don’t like them and are angry about what they are doing.
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