LUKE MARSDEN: Petrol "crisis" is totally unnecessary

Some pumps have run dry due to panic-buying

I’ve watched countless videos of people online at petrol stations attacking each other as though they are competing in a UFC title match.

Queues of cars have resulted in more honking of horns than at drive-ins during the pandemic.

I get it, people are angry at the Government, the fuel companies, HGV companies, but they should really be angry at themselves.

I’ve witnessed queues upon queues across our town as Wiganers have tried to get petrol.

But if we just behaved and filled up during our normal routines then we’d have no problem.

I have the luxury of working from home four days a week, so I haven’t rushed out to fill up my tank for it to sit on my driveway all week.

This isn’t the Euros: petrol fever really doesn’t need to catch on and, unlike England’s performance, petrol did come home.

There’s enough to worry about right now than getting in an argument with someone over them stealing your spot in line as you wait to pay over the odds for half a tank.

A video of a guy online shows him being dragged out of his car and attacked because he queue jumped the car in front, maybe he had good reason, maybe he was a key worker or maybe he was just an idiot either way he didn’t deserve a beating.

Electric cars are expensive I get it.

I want my next car to at least be a hybrid so when the next media-fuelled petrol crisis occurs, I can at least half laugh at the situation knowing my electric car is charged and sitting on my drive all week.

We really do need to keep calm and carry on (as normal).

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