https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-58767230

Around 20 cars follow a tanker full of mortar to a building sit thinking it's transporting petrol. Imagine wasting that fuel in a panic to buy fuel.

It's hard to sympathise with these plebs. If you think literally every tanker on the road is a fuel tanker, you're pretty stupid.

One theory doing the rounds is that this fuel crisis was manufactured because less fuel was used during the pandemic lockdown and fuel companies have large stockpiles of fuel that are close to spoiling. Of course there's no way to prove or disprove this idea, but it's viable.