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LisaK · 06-10-2008, 01:38 PM

Has anyone been affected by this yet? We have tried to fill up today and the 2 petrol stations near us are completly out of petrol & diesel. Reminds me of the UK, mad rush and panic buying!! We didn´t know there was a problem until we tried to fill up, have come home and looked on the internet and all the UK news channels have it as a story.
We are off out now as have been told of another petrol station further away and we hope they have some left. Wouldn´t be so worried but am off to the Uk on Thursday and need diesel to get to the airport.
If your areas are affected, maybe we can start a list of petrol stations that still have petrol & diesel available, if the one we go to has I will post the details when I get back.

The campsa garage on the c3314 between Calasparra and the A30 has diesel (About 12kms from Calasparra)

ToniW · 06-10-2008, 04:56 PM

Hi Lisa
Good luck, I filled up yesterday and my garage seemed fairly calm, will fill up again in the morning hopefully so we will see. Another garage this morning was down to it last pump.

LisaK · 06-10-2008, 05:57 PM

We filled up out of town, a tank full will get us to Alicante & back with some to spare, so the urgency is out of the way, just wonder how long it will go on for and hope my husband can get back to Alicante next week to pick me up

ToniW · 06-11-2008, 11:40 AM

my garage says they are fine, and no queue this morning either, they did tell me that the 2 neighbouring villages were out of diesel, although i saw cars in garages this morning still filling up, so still not critical this end as yet.. the Valencia port this morning was all very calm, a handful of protesters stood by the entrance but just stood around talking amongst themselves, more police than pickets!

Richie · 06-12-2008, 09:55 AM

I filled up last week, don't use the car that much so the fuel I have will hopefully last a good couple of weeks if not a month!

I have been past petrol stations having a good look - haven't seen any with any diesel though, there have been bigger queues than usual but hopefully it will not last long.

My other halfs best friend had to drive back from the Costa Blanca to Zamora yesterday! She had a full tank and made it back to Madrid where she is staying with her brother until she can get some diesel! Hopefully for her it doesn't last long! Otherwise she is stuck in Madrid until she can fill up again.

The supermarket next to me has been really busy - people coming out with trolley loads! I can't see it getting that bad that you need to buy the shop out.

Will have to wait and see.

ToniW · 06-12-2008, 10:18 AM

here in Monserrat they had a delivery of Diesel yesterday! but they were only expecting it to last a day.

Homefinder · 10-13-2008, 01:32 AM

Sorry mate - you got that one wrong!
There is a world recession looming and the Saudi's are thinking about exporting bicycles and camels.

Homefinder