A personal anecdote on fuel shortages.

My daughter got married today. One of her best friends from Uni days who lives 130 miles away had to queue at six petrol stations for about 20 minutes a time before she could get enough petrol for the journey. I was due to drive the couple to the airport some 50 miles away tomorrow and, since my car estimated 97 miles of fuel left I went to full up, fortunately before the panic was in full swing. There were still about 10 cars in front of me and the garage was entirely out of diesel and some pumps had run out of E10.

My son and his family had their taxi cancelled at short notice because of fuel, so ended up taking the bus and running to the ceremony.

That there is fuel at the refineries may be true, but what we experienced was a shortage.

(Completely independently, there was an accident on the motorway and the groom.nearly.didn't make it