PEOPLE across the county have faced long queues for another weekend as we enter the eleventh day of the fuel crisis.

Panic buying that began on Friday, September 24 has led to huge demand for fuel, with deliveries struggling to keep up.

It comes after BP announced last Thursday that it was having to close "a handful" of fuel stations due to a lack of HGV delivery drivers.

Panicked motorists then flocked to petrol stations to fill up. Over the past week The Argus has reported huge queues all over Brighton and the surrounding areas.

The increase in demand has led to many stations having to close early, some for days at a time.

The weekend saw a continuation in tailbacks and dry pumps all over Sussex with many drivers reporting that they have been unable to fill up or have been stuck in traffic for more than an hour.

One driver at the Mill Road BP garage in Patcham said: ""It was there when we went into Brighton from Hassocks but we hoped it would have subsided by the time we came back.

"Two hours later and there were still dozens and dozens of cars all the way along the by-pass blocking the roundabout. We had to go a different way home to avoid it."

While another said they were stuck in a queue for over an hour at around 10pm on Saturday night.

Supermarkets such as Asda in Hollingbury and Sainsbury's in Horsham were forced their garages at night only to allow for customers to enter the store.

The government announced on Saturday that Army tankers would be deployed to deliver fuel to stations to help fight the demand.

The chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association Brian Madderson said: “This isn’t going to be the major panacea. It’s a large help but in terms of the volume, they are not going to be able to carry that much."

He stated that the fuel situation in London and the south east remains a “really big problem”, where as other parts of the country are stabilising.

Boris Johnson indicated on Sunday that the shortages could continue to Christmas.

Asked on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show about a warning by Chancellor Rishi Sunak that shortages could continue to Christmas, Mr Johnson said: “Rishi is invariably right in everything he says.”

He then added hurriedly: “It depends how you interpret what he is saying.”

In comments made later in the day during a visit to a youth centre in east Manchester, Mr Johnson said he would keep “all options on the table” to fix the delivery difficulties being witnessed, but stressed industries would also have to step up.

In a poll Argus readers were asked if they felt the situation was resolving in their areas. Of the 406 respondents 91 per cent said they still had long queues and/or closed stations and nine per cent said they had not had problems recently.

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