Just in time for Easter get-aways. My 1st thoughts were EVs vying for recharge points…with wee kids on board. I still hold the view that meantime small capacity 50mpg plus ICE powered 3/4 pot Hybrids are the way to stay safe. My son has invested in two ( his & hers) mint I.C.E./ Leccy SUVs for the new baby. Nothing else stands to reason for him…each their own though. Both from Japan with Japanese in house power packs…1st division no-flare recorded history. He did extensive homework.
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Notably a huge drop in main street & back street pVrivate transport today. However our regular Morrisons home delivery man Thanks Gavin for carrying our stuff into the kitchen as ever!) reports today they inlisted drivers on days off to help with the increased intake of online demand.
(Gavin is one of my wife’s former pupils) 
Agreed. I now have the Peugeot 208 Allure hybrid, after illness delivered that enforced change reported last year.
I can frequently achieve around 70mpg, although somewhere between 60mpg and 65mpg is more usual. Feathering the throttle brings on the blue figures, without losing speed, so fuel visits can be stretched.
Getting stuck in stop/start traffic is also a breeze and fuel use is then even less.
Thanks for this…. food for thought and hope for the foreseeable future.
Greetings to all from Elgin in Moray, Scotland. Here to see my son and his family. Just arrived.
Sadly we’re not in the “5”……but in the “other car” as the dog is also with us. It’s a 2012 SEAT Exeo estate 2.0 tdi, and we made the trip from Royal Hillsborough Co.Down via Cairnryan on less than half a tank of diesel…….
£1.83 per litre to fill it back up
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And to cap it all, for Norther Regions we have a nasty Storm Dave zoom zooming in for the Easter Weekend! I can feel my new 14 tog Duvet & Slumberland leccy bed warmer sessions coming on, accompanied with caffeen free Columbian Perk coffees & cherry cakes…but then there’s that as yet unopened Xmas bottle of JD in the cupboard & mixers…Mmmm…
Let me see…get out and mix it with the rough stuff, or stay cocooned and safe. I’ll get back to you all on that.
You Saffers are safe & OK.
Carry on Q-ing! 
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Ach weel mon…
We call it braw back green drying days here.
Wee dod ‘o oats wi’ Top of Bottle cream, Stornoway Haggis chucked in wi’ it and dram…get in!
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Anyway, back on topic…sort of. After telling me 4 days back I panic easy ( I do not)…he admits today he had to Q to fill the Hybrid…he does need it for work as a Polis Scotland Trainer. To which I said…" Im waiting?" To which he said…“you can wait”
I bet they use E5…!
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I don’t think the panic buying is because of a fear of a shortage. I think it’s very real fear propogated by the price gouging of how much more will it cost to fill up if I don’t do it now. Should I pay with kidney this week, or risk needing to pay with a heart and lung next week? I know after paying for what would have been nearly a full tank of diesel a few weeks ago and only getting just over half a tank, I wish I had paid less per litre and in total for just under half a tank a week ago. At the moment funds are leaving the bank account quicker than the fuel is leaving the tank.
You could have a point. A close friend of my wife’s family who own 2 medium SUV Oiler Hybrids took his car to the fuel station yesterday early AM. Filled it for whatever it took which was not a lot. There were no other vehicles present but he noted the price per litre…not happy about the considerable gouge price.
This guy had been going there for many years for ad hoc groceries the family fuels.
He decided to top his wife’s car up ( she is away on holiday with parents) later that day and did so noting that since the morning, another gouge had been applied between 8.30 am and 4pm. He pressed the Pay at Till button, put the fuel in anyway, went to the cash line to present the Owner/ Till operator with the AM price and told him that was all he was getting. No deliveries had occured…an imprtant point of “evidence” The shop was about £1.40 “short”
Told the guy to call the cops if inclined and he did not mind getting named and shamed as a big time gouger. Nothing so far…He is a local councillor well respected. Could be interesting. Technically theft ? Or is it? He did take a photo of the displayed PM price pumps. He kept the AM receipt for the same fuel. ( wink) Bit of a dodgy tactic though given his position. 
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See? Hydrogen combustion! 
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Toilet rolls next! 