Panic buying.... possibly...

Well, I spent a great deal of today avoiding people panic buying fuel.. not sure why...why they do it, that is, not why i was avoiding them!! I mean, ok, the tanker drivers from one company are striking... but the others aren't.... and there should be plenty of fuel in ther tanks to last till tuesday, unless of course some panicky individuals rush out to the petrol stations and unnecessarily fill up their cars... oh dear..... I remember in my youth it was bread... the slightest sproinkling of snow, and all the bread was off the shelves.. the Beard would queue behind trlloey loads of bread... and strangely enough, five days later when the snow was gone (for we had real snow back then.....it really did block roads... nowadays it's the drivers who don't know what they're doing that block the roads by smoothing it into ice driving too slowly.. but I digress( and in parentheses too...)) the bread would end up in dustbins... fewer of us had the luxury of a freezer back then.... so why did wew do it.. I know it dates back to the food hoarding prehistory of our race, when the only supermarkets ran very fast and had big claws, but why bread?? why not target tinned goods, or dried.. corned beef, beans, rice.. at least they almost never go off.. where is the sense in hoarding perishables..... ?? But there we are.... on thesubject of food (again) I'm thinking of embracing Freganism, and going on a food liberation spree.... lets be honest, the idea of picking up wasted (but perfectly good) foods frommthe supermarket bins is nothing new for me.... I used some perfectly good but past sell by date carrots and potatoes to good effect a few years back...lets be honest, if I'd bought them on the last day, they'd have been alright a week after.... I'm even guilty of eating one day out of date pork chops... I figure that for their own safety supermarkets must program in some degree of latitude in order to avoid lawsuits.... and I do like them well done... cooking destroys germs, and I have it good authority that week old roadkill is perfectly edible if boiled long enough... although it lacks appeal to an aesthetic gourmand like myself... but I digress.... personally i didn't go hunting for fuel. .. my MOT runs out tomorrow midnight, and I'm shopping for a new vehile all being well.... so no point putting in more fuel than i need.. at most I'm going into Coalville, and then Hinckley later on.. although I may be borrowing the Purple Bunny (a Ford Fiesta owned by my dad....) for the latter... unless of course I actually get a van in the morning.. which would be nice....so, with my son safely ensconsed in a b+b in Blackpool with his mother, and some pallets to move tomorrow, I leave you with this thought.. what happens if so much fuel is panic bought that the tankers are unable to refuel, leaving them unable to reach their depots to bring the fuel out to replenish what was panic bought.. now that would be a story.... so, with bed beckoning, and a day to look forward to tomorrow (and not just because of the van!!) Wisebeard salutes you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!