I filled up my hybrid today purely because I’m in Harrogate on holiday in two weeks time and need to be sure I can get there and back in between electrical top ups.

For the next two weeks I can keep a full tank and just live of my 55 mile electric range.

I got petrol quite easily at the one petrol station in Chaddesley Corbett, it’s often worth travelling to a more rural spot to an independent petrol station in times like this.

There was always a very good place on the Leominster to Worcester road just outside Leominster that I used to travel 36 miles to use during the fuel protest era 30 years ago.......they always had fuel.

Rural stations are worth hunting down and driving to in my opinion.