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I think putting “Panic Buying” in the title of this article is a mistake.
While that seems to be the current consensus the event is very much ongoing and various media outlets have speculated on the cause, proposing reasons other than panic buying for the shortages. This article makes mention of that. In all likihood the reasons for the fuel crisis are complex and titling the article as “panic buying” is misleading or not painting the full picture
I recommend this article be moved to somewhere like “2021 UK Fuel Shortages” or “ 2021 UK Fuel Crisis” as much of the media seem to be calling it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.183.58 ( talk) 11:29, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
There seem to be wider issues than panic buying and shortage of HGV drivers : Acute shortage of abattoir workers, but I didn't find a suitable article. Feel free to consider inclusion somewhere. TGCP ( talk) 22:37, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to 2021 United Kingdom fuel supply crisis to reflect consensus about article scope. ( non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 01:56, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
2021 United Kingdom fuel panic buying → 2021 United Kingdom fuel crisis – Growing talk page consensus. Many reasons for the crisis, onus should not be on "panic buying". The other article at the latter (which is now a disambiguation link) can be mentioned in hatnote. Bangalamania ( talk) 22:38, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure we need to include the facts that thieves continued to steal fuel during the panic buying or that an ambulance had a crash. Apart from WP:NOTNEWS these, despite appearing in reliable sources, have been given undue weight in the article - they were not significant in relation to the panic buying and were not reported as such, or even widely covered. I propose removing them and the other similar one-offs being added. -- DeFacto ( talk). 07:05, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
I've removed this again. It is trivia. Wikipedia is not a police blotter; certainly the daily list of crimes is in a newspaper but that does not make it appropriate for Wikipedia. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 18:18, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
The fact that only ADR qualified HGV drivers can drive fuel tankers seems to be completely absent from this article. Only a small percent of HGV drivers have this extra certification. It was stated on national media at the time by some experts that there was no signficant shortage of ADR qualified drivers in the UK, severely weakening the argument that Brexit was a cause to the fuel crisis. The overall shortage of HGV drivers in the UK, the vast majority of which could not drive fuel tankers, was likley not especially significant to the fuel crisis. 90.252.145.251 ( talk) 17:03, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
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I think putting “Panic Buying” in the title of this article is a mistake.
While that seems to be the current consensus the event is very much ongoing and various media outlets have speculated on the cause, proposing reasons other than panic buying for the shortages. This article makes mention of that. In all likihood the reasons for the fuel crisis are complex and titling the article as “panic buying” is misleading or not painting the full picture
I recommend this article be moved to somewhere like “2021 UK Fuel Shortages” or “ 2021 UK Fuel Crisis” as much of the media seem to be calling it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.183.58 ( talk) 11:29, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
There seem to be wider issues than panic buying and shortage of HGV drivers : Acute shortage of abattoir workers, but I didn't find a suitable article. Feel free to consider inclusion somewhere. TGCP ( talk) 22:37, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to 2021 United Kingdom fuel supply crisis to reflect consensus about article scope. ( non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 01:56, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
2021 United Kingdom fuel panic buying → 2021 United Kingdom fuel crisis – Growing talk page consensus. Many reasons for the crisis, onus should not be on "panic buying". The other article at the latter (which is now a disambiguation link) can be mentioned in hatnote. Bangalamania ( talk) 22:38, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure we need to include the facts that thieves continued to steal fuel during the panic buying or that an ambulance had a crash. Apart from WP:NOTNEWS these, despite appearing in reliable sources, have been given undue weight in the article - they were not significant in relation to the panic buying and were not reported as such, or even widely covered. I propose removing them and the other similar one-offs being added. -- DeFacto ( talk). 07:05, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
I've removed this again. It is trivia. Wikipedia is not a police blotter; certainly the daily list of crimes is in a newspaper but that does not make it appropriate for Wikipedia. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 18:18, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
The fact that only ADR qualified HGV drivers can drive fuel tankers seems to be completely absent from this article. Only a small percent of HGV drivers have this extra certification. It was stated on national media at the time by some experts that there was no signficant shortage of ADR qualified drivers in the UK, severely weakening the argument that Brexit was a cause to the fuel crisis. The overall shortage of HGV drivers in the UK, the vast majority of which could not drive fuel tankers, was likley not especially significant to the fuel crisis. 90.252.145.251 ( talk) 17:03, 26 February 2022 (UTC)