Our posts crossed. I was amending as you were posting. 
It’s really hit home now! We can’t get pizza delivered, never happened before, can only assume no drivers/fuel for drivers. Not just our area either!!
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I’m sure that was started by some bored hacks in their evening pub at the start of the Coronavirus panic, they probably had a bet that instead of people panic buying food and water they would pick some totally hilarious product (TP) run a story that people were panic buying it and hay presto the public went on a massive TP spending spree. If it weren’t for the fact people were dying it would have been very funny.
Where do you live I can collect I’ve got a tank full of fuel 
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Pizza delivery surely they are front line aren’t they
Pretty sure that’s illegal, there’s a limit on what you can buy retail and on what you can store at home
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had to fill up yesterday but then realised I needed to pop out again to replace the fuel I used getting back from the garage…
…happy to swap some toilet roles for fuel anybody?
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No fuel cans is all very well until you actually run out and become stranded. My daughter rang home tonight because she had just arrived home from a few days away and was almost out of diesel and wouldn’t get to work tomorrow. She lives out in the sticks so rather than her waste what little fuel she had left I went out and about in my petrol engined, one litre car on her behalf trying to find a garage still open. All the local supermarkets between her place and us were closed. I went in the opposite direction and eventually found a place still selling fuel, albeit with a very long queue. However, my plan B was to fill a 5 litre can for her. Had I been denied that, having queued up with everyone else it would hardly have been fair!
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Based on the above post I think its fair to say that everyone has their own reason for buying fuel. Just because you queue to buy it,doesn’t mean you are selfishly panic buying
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Not officially I know but I’m pretty sure it’s fine.
As a polymer chemist by profession I’m convinced that the synthetic rubbers used in the fuel system of NA mx-5s shouldn’t be significantly affected by the difference between E5 and E10 and if I’m wrong then so be it, new fuel lines it is
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Western “Civilisation”? Only 9 meals from anarchy.
Let the battles commence. 
A nice Winter of Discontent would just be the icing on the cake.
All together now… " Rule Britannia…"
But E10 is max 10% ethanol so theoretically okay as that 1994 Mazda document warns against over 10%.
When or if E10 ever reaches 10% content is another matter, I would assume it will ramp up over a long period, the E10 sticker on the pump is effectively a warning rather than a guarantee of the make-up.
OK, so just how big, or how overgrown is his garden?
Noticed an ESSO station at Blackfield Hants, about 1km from the largest oil refinery in Europe at Fawley, closed yesterday, presumably due to panic buying. Seemed ironic. Pumps will be quiet later in the week I guess.
Apparently Yuletide walnut supplies are in jeopardy.
As are sprouts.
This is disaster.
I usually start boiling ours start of October for my sprout & mulled wild haggis pate…with cinnamon
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