No fuel became a sudden reality

[Paul]

How many of you got caught without fuel when the government sent everyone into a panic a couple of weeks ago?

We didn't but even with both cars having 3/4 full tanks, it still came as a shock. Long queues for DERV which ran out within 2 hours and the first village theft of fuel from a parked van.

So we reviewed our current plans.
Both our half size jerry cans were full but that only totalled 15 liters of DERV (150 miles). Problem was neither of us could remember how old the fuel was.

Luckily we had the means of syphoning from car to car but at most that would have given one vehicle an extra 550 miles of motoring.

So after a quick practice with the manual pump we put everything away refilling our jerrycans soon afterwards.

How did you all manage and did anyone get "caught out"?