Stick to Easter travel, Australians told, though hundreds of petrol stations dry - Sight Magazine Australians were urged to maintain their travel plans for Easter weekend although hundreds of petrol stations were without power on Saturday.

Stick to Easter travel, Australians told, though hundreds of petrol stations dry @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Australia #Easter #Eastertravel #Iranwar #oil #petrolstations #diesel

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"PANIC STATIONS"
Russell Blackstock for @sundaypost.com

Motorists are ignoring calls not to panic-buy petrol, resulting in fuel pumps running dry at #PetrolStations across #Britain.

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KPDN to install CCTVs at high-risk petrol stations to curb RON95 leakages PUTRAJAYA (March 30): The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) will implement the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) at petrol stations identified as high-risk areas for the misappropriation of subsidised RON95 petrol. KPDN Enforcement director-general Datuk Azman Adam said the initiative was aimed at enabling more effective monitoring, as footage would be channelled directly to the KPDN enforcement control centre and state offices. He said the pilot phase of the CCTV installation was being carried out in stages in collaboration with industry players, particularly in areas identified as ‘hotspots’, including states bordering neighbouring countries. “God willing, this […]

KPDN to install CCTVs at high-risk petrol stations to curb RON95 leakages #KPDN #RON95 #CCTV #PetrolStations #SubsidyMonitoring

Wouldn't it be better if charging stations were designed for convenience and reliability?

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#autolooks #podcast #automotive #EVcharging #infrastructure #petrolstations #EVindustry #chargingstations #EVadoption #tesla #shell

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"PANIC AT THE PUMPS"
@jerrylawton.bsky.social for @dailystar.co.uk

Desperate drivers are joining huge queues at #PetrolStations across #Britain after the war with #Iran sent fuel prices soaring globally.

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Four double-page spreads of an "Amoco Fashion Brochure" from the early 1970s, showing Amoco-branded uniforms for petrol station staff. Two men and a woman are shown, wearing various combinations of uniforms, on a garage forecourt, Town Centre Service Station

An Amoco staff uniform "fashion brochure" from c.1972–3, showing Town Centre Service Station in Feltham, Middlesex (which I think was about where the car park is outside Matalan). Is that a Triumph 1500, or a Dolomite? More info here: www.flickr.com/photos/danlo... #petrolstations #petrocultures

Petrol vs Plug: Is Fast Refuelling Just a Myth? Think EVs take ages to charge? Petrol pumps aren’t exactly Formula 1 pit stops either 😅⛽️🔌🇱🇺

Think EVs take ages to charge? Petrol pumps aren’t exactly Formula 1 pit stops either 😅⛽️🔌🇱🇺

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Pump it up! The #UK’s most glorious #garages. From the mock-Tudor fad of the 1920s to drivers refuelling on a roundabout, each era produces its own distinctive #petrolstations – as photographer #PhilipButler discovered www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

Day 94 of #petrolstations

Avia

Morton Garage, Goose Green, Great Torrington, Devon 1999 https://flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16254909691

AVIA International @AVIAINTL is a Swiss-based organisation of independent companies across Europe—sharing a brand. In the UK the AVIA members...

Day 76 of #petrolstations

Freedom

Bakewell Bridge Filling Station, Derbyshire 1993 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/15637328343/

Example of hut-in-a-car-park style petrol station (hut survives, per Streetview). Freedom: owned by English China Clays, then merged into Power...

Day 63 of #petrolstations

UK

Fatica's Garage, Gloucester 1996 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16083194990/

Sandwiched next to the railway; still going—no petrol though. UK Petroleum Products supplied many smaller garages through 80s-90s; merged into former National Coal...

Day 62 of #petrolstations

Murphy

Haverhill Service Station, Suffolk, 2005 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16264153295/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16264153415/

What looks like a Murco station was in fact 'Murphy', the American parent company's...

Day 60 of #petrolstations

WCF

SC Shipley & Sons, Moat St, Brampton, Cumbria 1996 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16084698787/

Streetview suggests this was replaced by a Co-op supermarket. West Cumberland Farmers, based in Brampton, was itself once a co-op, going private...

Day 59 of #petrolstations

MOCO

Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton, London, 2003 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/15644250473/ & https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16262331421/

MOCO—Machin Oil Co—was a brand of CRM Fuels of Loughton, probably Gulf distributors. Taken over by...

Day 57 of #petrolstations

National and Jet

Fylingdales Service Station, North Yorkshire 1993 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/15641757674/

A 1970s National Avery Hardoll pump looks forlornly over A171 at thriving Jet siblings; Volvo 240 & Sherpa look on. They'll always...

Day 56 of #petrolstations

Wings

Parkside Garage, Coven, Staffs, 2001 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/15650672843/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/15648142364/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16083039308/

Wings, with wonderful Blippo Black text, was a...

Day 55 of #petrolstations

Repsol

West Cornwall & North Devon Farmers, Bideford, Devon 1998 https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16263372572/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16078336997/

Repsol—with a bright Miró-inspired Wolff Olins logo—entered the UK in 1989 by...

Day 18 of #petrolstations

Save

Alderson of Woodhall, North Yorkshire, 1999 https://flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16082892988/ https://flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16083052950/

When Save bought Burmah's fuels business in 1995, it came with supply contracts for many small rural...

Day 17 of #petrolstations

Thrust

Foxholes, E. Riding of Yorkshire, 1993 https://flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16244154346/

Thrust was created by Bayford & Co, now based at Bowcliffe Hall in Bramham, in 1969, and with redesigns, lasted until the early 2000s when Bayford's licensed...

Day 16 of #petrolstations

Paramount

Stowlangtoft / Stanton Street, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 1995 https://flickr.com/photos/danlockton/15641767894/

Paramount was a brand created by Gulf Oil (GB) for use by smaller distributors, so popped up in various places around the...