Just one per cent of the country's petrol stations are closed due to lack of fuel, it has been reported.
Up and down the UK drivers have been resisting government calls not to panic by heading out to their local garage for a tank top-up.
Fearful that disrupted supply lines will leave them unable to fill up, many motorists have been stuck in long queues for hours, battling those others who had a similar idea.
Industry professionals have said that while the queues may look dramatic, there is not too much cause for concern when it comes to actual petrol supply.
Less than 100 of the 8,350 filling stations in the UK have been forced to close, the Daily Mail reports.
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Around 20 BP garages have shut completely and a maximum of 100 have run out of at least one type of fuel.
A 'small number' of Tesco refilling stations have also been impacted, said Esso owner ExxonMobil, which runs the sites.
President of the AA Edmund King reiterated on Saturday that there "is plenty of fuel at the source" and no need to stock up.
"The good news is you can only really fill up once - you've got to use the fuel, so this should be a short-term thing," he told BBC Breakfast.
"It's not like the fuel crises in the past when the supplier was hit by strikes, etc.
"So, once people have filled up, they won't travel more than they normally travel, so this strain on the system should ease up in the next few days."
Concerns about petrol supplies were triggered by supply chain issues caused, in part, by the shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers.
In a bid to fill some of the vacancies caused, in no small part, by Brexit, the government is planning to offer short term visas for EU drivers.
"We're looking at temporary measures to avoid any immediate problems, but any measures we introduce will be very strictly time limited," a spokeswoman for Johnson's Downing Street office said in a statement.
"Like countries around the world we are suffering from a temporary Covid-related shortage of drivers needed to move supplies around the country."
The UK's Road Haulage Association (RHA) says Britain is facing a shortage of some 100,000 drivers, a result of workers leaving the industry, Brexit and Covid-19, which put a stop to driver training and testing for about a year.
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The government is reportedly considering granting entry to up to 5,000 foreign drivers into Britain on short-term visas, a measure that logistics companies and retailers have demanded for months but which the government had previously ruled out.
Brian Madderson, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association which represents independent fuel retailers, said he expected the problem to continue for a "while longer".
"I think this situation is going to get worse before it gets better," he told Sky News.
EG Group, which runs 341 forecourts across Britain, said on Friday it would impose a purchase limit of 30 pounds ($41) per customer for fuel due to the "unprecedented customer demand".
From early on Saturday, motorists began queuing outside filling stations and some forecourts closed as fuel ran out.
"I was out on my bike ... and came past my BP garage and it was chaos," Merriman said.
"As soon as the message gets out there might be a fuel shortage, people understandably react."
Police across the country reported congestion caused by motorists waiting in line, and urged people not to contact them about the problems the traffic was causing.
Britain, the world's fifth-largest economy, is also grappling with a spike in Europe
an natural gas costs causing soaring energy prices and a potential food supply crunch.
At least one bust-up has broken out on the country's forecourts, as a clash broke out at a busy petrol station in Portsmouth, Hants, where drivers had flocked to a Shell station.
Two groups of men were 'screaming' at each other before one group chased another fleeing in a van - hurling stones at the vehicle, according to a witness.
The ugly scenes shocked onlookers at a forecourt in the Hilsea area of the city at around 8.30am.
A witness said: "People were queuing throughout the night. Pumps are almost dry.
