Boris Johnson set for visa U-turn for 5,000 foreign truck drivers but is it too little too late? Panic-buying gridlocks fuel stations through the night, tempers flare at the pumps and UK faces food shortages

“Motorists in queues complained about greedy customers filling their tanks and then jerry cans!”

That can be potentially very dangerous.

My wife and I were on vacation in the northern Oregon coastal area when 9/11 happened. I was driving the OJ Simpson White Bronco model and was lucky to get a few 5 gallon limited/maximum gas stops on the way back to California.

At an Oregone/Cali border town station in Oregone, the locals were about into riots when the gas stations limited their gas purchases to 5 gallons and zero jerry can fillups.

The owner of the station where we got our last 5 gallons for that day, was wearing a big pistol and had 2 employees sitting on stools with riot guns. A sheriff’s vehicle came up just in time and via loud speakers told those with jerry cans to get the $$$$ out of line and go home. They did.

We got our 5 gallon fill up, and the owner handed me a hand filled in box top saying, “Next in Line!” for the next day and 5 more gallons. We were long time customers.

So, I used the cardboard box top the next morning, and we had enough gas to get to Willets, Ca and got 10 more gallons to get home.

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