Fuel shortage in France

[Frogchod]

Fuel tanker drivers are on strike here in France so be aware if you're on a collection mission for that Renner 20.

Fuel is still available but you'll be limited to 30euros worth, long wait for the pumps too

 

Interactive map here : http://www.ouest-france.fr/

[panhard65]

Oh bugger hope they sort themselves out before the 13th of June otherwise that will be fun. I don't think the 807 will make it to Tours and back with a weeks worth of driving around on one tank. I might have to take a few jerry cans. Thanks for the heads up !

[forddeliveryboy]

Find an 806 instead with pre-HDi diesel, then veg from the hypermarché shelf is an option. 

[tooSavvy]

Oh bugger hope they sort themselves out before the 13th of June otherwise that will be fun. I don't think the 807 will make it to Tours and back with a weeks worth of driving around on one tank. I might have to take a few jerry cans. Thanks for the heads up !

 

... no 'jerries' in DaToob - is that so?

 

TS

[skattrd]

Running cars on veg is illegal in France isn't it?

[Frogchod]

Dunno about DaToob but here in Calvados use of jerry cans has been banned. From what I saw in petrol station yesterday this is being ignored.

 

General strike on Wednesday and Thursday. Expect more riots and Hollands head on a stick outside the Bastille very soon....

 

Not seen any of this on uk tv ?

[chaseracer]

Not seen any of this on uk tv ?

 

Not if a minor Royal is opening an envelope somewhere...

[Tamworthbay]

They don't want the proles over here having stupid ideas that they can resist Her Cameron.

[Aston Martin]

Don't you have to work to go on strike?

[chaseracer]

Don't you have to work to go on strike?

 

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[richardmorris]

... no 'jerries' in DaToob - is that so?

 

TS

I've gone over on the tube in the 2cv with a 5l can in the back. Lpg is a no though.

[hairnet]

dont get the no cans - you already have a huge ten gallon one under the car ffs

 

frogs are daft

 

veg ftw

[Tamworthbay]

The reason is that the fuel tank has to be separated from the occupants by a bulkhead, whereas a fuel can isn't necessarily so removed. I understand the issue on the tunnel is one of potential leakage. How much risk these things represent is another matter but I wouldn't want to be in the tunnel with a fire going on.

[castros_bro]

Officially..... No fuel cans, even empty ones,  on the boatie Mcboat Ferries nor the trainie Mctrain toob. Even cans of  creosote is a No No. How do I know.....

[mercrocker]

Aren't there some old lengths of PLUTO hanging around in Kent still?

[doobietoo]

450 mile range means I should be able to avoid buying diesel at all on my trip to the Netherlands at the beginning of June. Thanks for the heads up though. I might just top up in Belgium or Holland before I return just to be sure...

[explosive-cabbage]

I took 200L of veg over to France on the McBoatface in the 205 last year. Just keep it covered over with camping gear and you'll be fine.

And yes, it is still illegal to fuel a car with veg in France, running on it is okay, as long as you have filled it up in another country- if you get caught filling your tank with it can get in trouble. If anyone asks just say you drove to Belgium for a top up 😂

[dave21478]

Pez stations in town this morning were queued down the roads for a good few hundred meters. Complete chaos.

 

Its business as normal at the tiny local petrol station for local people though, so Im not worried.

[tooSavvy]

Pez stations in town this morning were queued down the roads for a good few hundred meters. Complete chaos.

 

Its business as normal at the tiny local petrol station for local people though, so Im not worried.

What, like, the locals are surrounding the 'local fuelly' and chasing off 'le damn Townies!' with pichforks??

 

Worth a goggle on Utoob, that woodB

 

 

TS

[forddeliveryboy]

I took 200L of veg over to France on the McBoatface in the 205 last year. Just keep it covered over with camping gear and you'll be fine.

And yes, it is still illegal to fuel a car with veg in France, running on it is okay, as long as you have filled it up in another country- if you get caught filling your tank with it can get in trouble. If anyone asks just say you drove to Belgium for a top up

 

Although like most other bureaucracy which doesn't suit the Frenchman, it is ignored with aplomb. The veg community over there is as healthy as here. They just don't take the piss by topping the tank off with veg on a filling station forecourt, or outside the local Gendarmerie.

[Rovorsche]

Regarding Jerry cans, I have taken externally mounted Jerry cans across on a Ferry.

They were allowed on board because they were empty and had never contained fuel.

[colnerov]

 An empty used jerry can is more dangerous than a full one. It is go bang.

[castros_bro]

It's not just the fire/explosive safety aspect but the extension of ADR in containers to cover marine pollutants regulations. An empty container is classed the same as full container. My ADR was for 1.1-1.6 explosives so did not cover fuel but here is an extensive list which, as the "carrier" of your petrol inna container, Boatie McBoat Ferry has a responsibility for so tries to regulate but has no manifest nor direct control over what the passengers hide in their vehicles so different Jobsworth enforcements are available.   Somewhere I have a photo of a single Hilux being transported on the Isle of Wight Ferry as the truck driver said he has an aerosol can of paint which turned out to have butane as a propellant so had to be treated as a fuel transporter. The UK end of the Portsmouth Santander ferry seems to the the most thorough in their searching but lack a knowledge of chemistry and Spanish.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/047172839X.app2/pdf

[colnerov]

 Hi, Just extracted this from my ADR paperwork-

 

 1Litre of flammable liquid will produce 400Litres of vapour which mixed with air at 2% is 20,000Litres of flammable vapour/air.

 

 Colin

[beko1987]

Amys aunt and uncle are in France, and failed as they always go over empty, to fill up cheaper. Apparently they could get 30 euro worth at the main one by the chunnel, which got them to their house, the local stations there were fine, so they are going to brim up before leaving, then enter the train on fumes and fill up in the uk

 

They got lucky

[andrew e]

I filled a car on the top of the Stelivo pass from a 5l green plastic can. I can't remember if the pressure had crushed or expanded the can, but I shit myself regardless when I found it!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Digging the picture in the BBC news story though

 

[mat_the_cat]

Not a good time to be heading down to southern France in a brick shaped van which does 25 mpg...

[SiC]

Digging the picture in the BBC news story though

 

That looks utterly mint!

 

I fail to believe there really is a French reg AX that doesn't have a dent on every panel.

[doobietoo]

That looks utterly mint!

 

I fail to believe there really is a French reg AX that doesn't have a dent on every panel.

 

There was a car in the picture?