Donald Potter said he got a shock when he ordered oil to heat the bungalow near Grimsby he shares with his wife.<\/p>\n
Potter bought oil in January at a price of 60p per litre. Last Monday, he said he ordered a refill and the price had risen to 96.5p per litre.<\/p>\n
That resulted in a \u00a3200 increase in the usual cost of refilling his tank, he said.<\/p>\n
Potter questioned why the price had risen so rapidly, just days after the war began, adding: “Surely, that oil that I ordered must have been in the UK already. Why has it gone up so fast?”<\/p>\n
However, Lambert said distributors do not keep a stock of oil and only buy in what they need to fulfil the next day’s order.<\/p>\n
“We are just milk men. We are wholly dependent on the price and supply that is presented to us. It has been just increase after increase,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“It normally causes a big shock if the price rises by one pence in a day. On Tuesday, we saw it rise by 28p on that day alone.”<\/p>\n
Lambert said he felt positive about the most recent price falls. <\/p>\n
He said: “My biggest concern is that we might have to ration people. I want people to be sensible so that we don’t have to do that.<\/p>\n
“This is a very precarious supply chain.”<\/p>\n
Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire<\/a> or Lincolnshire<\/a> on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Potter said he got a shock when he ordered oil to heat the bungalow near Grimsby he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-468733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}