From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:06:26 -0000 (UTC), Howard    
   wrote:   
      
   >I've read a bunch of articles blaming "panic buyers" for the gasoline   
   >shortages in the UK following stations not receiving deliveries. That's   
   >basically BS, isn't it? It sounds like it's basically conflating anger   
   >over closures with panic buying, when they're two very different things.   
   >   
   >British fuel company reps are acknowledging the major distribution   
   >problems but keep saying it's a problem of panic buying, and the press   
   >keeps repeating that line.   
   >   
   >The main evidence seems to be long lines of drivers -- but isn't that   
   >what you would expect when supplies fall short?  I'm not seeing anything   
   >beyond anecdotal claims that people are filling up more than they   
   >"should" be.   
   >   
   Snip rest of good background...   
      
   I heard both EuroNews and BBC reporting and each seemed to imply a   
   Perfect Storm with several aspects all contributing varying bits and   
   pieces to the resulting lines and lack of gasoline.   
      
   Some of these have whole backstories themselves and some are just   
   contributory straws that broke or strained another system that might   
   have been at or near the edge, either singly or in combo, and the   
   overlap is mighty, but no one seems to have done it alone...   
      
   -Pandemic   
   -Lack of drivers   
   -Brexit   
   -Rise of oil prices   
   -Broad supply chain disruption   
   -Panic buying   
      
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