Drivers have been seen filling up jerry cans with fuel after panic buying saw 90% of some chains' forecourts running out of petrol and diesel this weekend.
Last week the country's biggest fuel suppliers said they were having trouble getting deliveries to some forecourts and would have to ration supplies - with some stations temporarily closed.
The Petrol Retailers Association said some of the brands they represent have seen 90% of forecourts running dry.
The Government is considering changing the law and bringing in the army to ease the problem, caused by a lack of HGV drivers.
This weekend there were huge queues at petrol stations across the country, and pictures emerged of drivers filling cans with spare fuel.
A fight broke out at a busy petrol station in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where drivers had flocked to a Shell station.
And a man was seen filling up multiple jerry cans at a station in Berkshire.
Some retailers - including Sainsbury's - are now limiting people to £30 of fuel a time.
A lorry driver saw a man in Gloucestershire putting jerry cans of fuel into the boot of his car.
He said: "This is why we are low on fuel. They had to go in and pay for the first lot to then fill the jerry cans up! It's really irritating."
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