{"id":31654,"date":"2012-03-30T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fuel_sales_treble_as_panic_buying_sets_in\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:30:22","slug":"fuel_sales_treble_as_panic_buying_sets_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31654","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Fuel sales treble as panic buying sets in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the day when panic really set in: figures released this morning showed that sales of petrol were up by 172 per cent yesterday as motorists heeded ministers\u2019 advice to top up in case of a strike by tanker drivers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Panic buying was reported yesterday across the UK, leading to long queues outside some garages and \u201csold out\u201d\u009d or \u201cfood only\u201d\u009d signs greeting car drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Halfords, the car parts chain, reported \u201chigh\u201d\u009d sales of fuel cans. Sales of all cans have soared by 225 per cent compared with this time last year, with motorists buying in \u201cthe thousands\u201d\u009d, while sales of jerry cans are up by more than 500 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/politics\/article3369286.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the day when panic really set in: figures released this morning showed that sales of petrol were up by 172 per cent yesterday as motorists heeded ministers\u2019 advice to top up in case of a strike by tanker<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31654\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}