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it's not a uniform problem across the country, because fundamentally, the problem comes from panic buyers. All it takes is for a couple of cars to queue for petrol at a station to make everyone passing say ... oh i better get petrol too. They then join the queue and before you know it, every station in that locality will be swamped. Even if there is no shortage of petrol, there will be shortly after that happens, no matter how good the supply of petrol actually is