How to Start a Panic. (UK Petrol Prices)

Name: daseaford

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Product:	UK Petrol Prices
Date:	01/11/00 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: May lead to cheaper petrol.

Disadvantages: Need large food cupboards.

On the BBC2 Newsnight programme on 31st October a brief comment was made about car owners being expected to fill up their cars with petrol prior to the expected "action" during the following week.

It appears that many motorists, like me, quickly panicked and filled up their cars the following morning. At the petrol station I use they had set on extra staff and could not believe the demand there had been for petrol that morning, with almost everybody filling their petrol tanks up to the full mark.

I am not sure as to why the comment was made on Newsnight, and if it's effects were felt all over the country, but it does show the power of the media to start a panic, at a time when there is no logical reason for panic buying at all.

I must admit that I am one of the "panic buyers". I think some of Margaret Thatcher's teaching of 'look after yourself first', is still around in this country. I have a deep freeze full of bread, enough long life milk to have a bath in, and now a full tank of petrol. Don't ask about tinned food, we could supply Tesco's.

I have every sympathy with the protesters, petrol prices are too high and the tax revenue is not being directed to the right places.

Good luck protesters, let the panic begin!

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