{"id":5792,"date":"2008-04-23T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_scotland_drivers_face_fuel_rationing_as_panic_buying_hits_petrol_station\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:02:00","slug":"in_scotland_drivers_face_fuel_rationing_as_panic_buying_hits_petrol_station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5792","title":{"rendered":"In Scotland Drivers face fuel rationing as panic buying hits petrol stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers were facing a \u00c2\u00a320 limit on fuel spending yesterday as panic buying intensified at Scotland&#8217;s filling stations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite calls to motorists not to drain supplies, at least one station had to resort to rationing petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Other filling station managers reported drivers losing their tempers in long queues.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Furphy imposed at \u00c2\u00a320 maximum purchase for fuel at his Jet station in Dalmuir, Clydebank, in a bid to conserve stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The move infuriated some of his customers.<\/p>\n<p>Chris said: &#8220;It has been going mad in here all day, and the staff have been getting a lot of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One woman stuck in \u00c2\u00a360, despite signs at every pump saying there was a \u00c2\u00a320 limit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/2008\/04\/22\/drivers-face-fuel-rationing-as-panic-buying-hits-petrol-stations-86908-20390910\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers were facing a \u00c2\u00a320 limit on fuel spending yesterday as panic buying intensified at Scotland&#8217;s filling stations. Despite calls to motorists not to drain supplies, at least one station had to resort to rationing petrol and diesel. Other filling<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5792\">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":[40,50,140,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-energy-natural-resources","category-england-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792","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=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}