Maude urged to quit over petrol advice as woman suffers burns There was mounting anger at the government today over their controversial advice to store fuel after a woman suffered 40% burns whilst decanting petrol. The Labour peer Lord Harris called for the cabinet minister Francis Maude to resign in a message posted on the social networking site Twitter. Lord Harris tweeted: "This woman was following advice from Govt Minister Francis Maude & ends up with 40% burns. Disgraceful. He shd resign. Harris joins a number of other MPs who have voiced anger over the confused government advice including Tom Harris MP and Karl Turner MP. Critics have accused the government of creating the crisis and giving confused advice on how to prepare for the strike. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has been heavily criticised for his statements suggesting that lives were being put at risk by the planned strike, and his advice, subsequently withdrawn, that motorists should stockpile petrol. Reports today said the woman involved in the accident, named locally as Diane Hill, was pouring the fuel between two containers using a jug when it ignited and set fire to her clothes. A fire service spokesman said the woman was using her oven at the time of the incident. Firefighters attended the scene, put out the fire and removed the remaining petrol. The accident comes against the background of a continuing row over government advice on how to prepare for a possible fuel tanker drivers" strike. Today, Unite, which represents around 2,000 tanker drivers, who between them supply 90% of the country's forecourts, ruled out any strike before Easter. Yesterday government advice was blamed for a huge spike in the sales of petrol and diesel and the subsequent queues caused by panic buying of the fuel. The queues resulted in some police forces asking petrol stations to temporarily close in order to ease congestion. The AA yesterday calculated that the panic buying, which caused a 81% jump in fuel sales, could hand the government £32m in fuel excise duty.