General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Yes, it's called 'profiteering' even though it is being denied, and the problem has been caused because of the 'just in time' method of everything these days, whereby a petrol station would get a delivery of fuel which would fill its tanks to full, and they would be fully stocked, and when that fuel was running out, the petrol station would order another delivery, to fill their underground tanks, that doesn't happen now, the petrol stations have more frequent deliveries, and so they carry less stocks of fuels, the idea being that the fuel goes out of the tanker and into vehicles fuel tanks, in as short of time as possible, and folk tend to buy fuel as they use it, I do that, I don't drive around with a full tank of fuel, unless I am going on a long run somewhere.

The 'just in time system' of supply and demand is by its nature a 'precarious' system, and this crisis proves that, just a {{rumour}} of fuel shortages has created a supply and demand crisis, so maybe it should be encouraged for all retail, wholesale and manufacturers to carry more stocks, so as to avoid problems like we have seen over the last week.