But the AA warned that the fuel network is still susceptible to "panic buying".
The panic buying in the days after Suharto's budget speech challenged much of the government's remaining credibility.
Lesley Urrutia, of Pilton Electrical in Cardiff, said customers - many elderly - appeared to be panic buying.
Meanwhile, there have been reports of panic buying of food, according to Stephen Alambritis of the Federation of Small Businesses.
Welsh First Secretary Rhodri Morgan warned that last weekend's panic buying of fuel could be repeated this weekend with food.
Several market watchers said just as there is panic selling pushing down stock prices, panic buying is lifting gold prices.
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Instead, prices spiked in reponse to temporary factors, such as the fall in the dollar, export bans and panic buying.
Agriculture Minister Nick Brown has admitted supplies of meat will be disrupted, but has warned shoppers not to start panic buying.
Its president Edmund King acknowledged that panic buying - as well as wet weather - may have played a part in the April-June fall.
In 2008, the last time Russia banned grain exports, it set off a wave of panic buying among importers in the Middle East and North Africa.
There were reports of long queues of cars at petrol stations in Lagos, the country's commercial capital, and the capital Abuja, as panic buying of petrol began.
He said there was a bit of panic buying in the shops last week ahead of the forecast snow downfall, which pushed some delivery cycles out of kilter.
Ministers have rejected retailer claims their advice caused "panic buying".
If the world oil supply peaked one day and then fell away sharply, prices would indeed rocket, shortages and panic buying would wreak havoc and a global recession would ensue.
The government has refuted a China Business Times report on Monday of a 30% gas price hike that triggered nationwide panic buying and long queues for fuel, says Southern Metropolis Daily.
Meanwhile, fears over radioactive fallout here in the United States, which led to panic buying of an anti-radiation medicine and survival gear in the West, have been allayed for the time being by EPA findings that almost no radiation has survived the 5, 000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean.
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Ron Paul has attacked the move by the central banks as panic and buying up bad debt.
Mr Brown also said that he hoped that the dispute between management and workers at the Grangemouth refinery - which has led to fears of panic-buying and fuel shortages - could be settled by arbitration.
And earnings season is a time when you see panic-driven buying and selling on display.
It is not likely that housing prices will return to the bizarre price escalation we saw in the period from 2004 to 2008 when there was a buying panic.
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But far from the mass ruination envisioned by these proselytizers, most of the long-term top-performing investment letters are using the panic to find great buying opportunities.
There is little chance of a big turnaround in gold buying until market panic subsides, he predicted.
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