Eye Green Esso ran out of fuel last night. As stocks dwindle across Peterborough a compound effect of one station running out of fuel forcing people onto the next nearest station continues.
The panic has been caused be Unite whose drivers are threatening to strike. Although they have said there will be no strike before Easter, as they have to give a weeks notice, conflicting information from the government has meant people filling up unnecessarily.
As I was at Eye station people were still driving in, one couple towing a caravan said they were so low on fuel they didn’t know where to risk next. Nearby Texaco still had unleaded left but was out of diesel last night.
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