It was one or two specific chains of garages (and the pricey ones in the first place if I remember rightly) that were going to be effected. Cue nation-wide panic. The point is it shouldn't have happened in the first place, that spike didn't need to happen. It was nothing more than the usual headline reactions and people not reading the actual details and going out panic buying and the usual business owners raising the prices to take advantage of the stupidity.