The new thoughts are that it is actually better not to use plastic gloves or any other type of glove and to maintain hand washing/gel cleaning instead.
Plastic and hard surfaces hold the virus alive better than soft fabrics where it apparently dies quicker.
By the same reasoning it is believed that plastic aprons are not helpful either, and fabric aprons are believed to be better
I think this is a bit academic, because gloves, masks and pinnies are all single use - while you are wearing them they are potentially infected, but then you throw them away. The plus point of a plastic pinnie is that it stops liquids getting through to your everyday clothing underneath, which fabric pinnies do not do. There are no hand washing facilities at the pumps so you would be relying on sanitiser alone - to my mind best to wear gloves, remove before you get inside your can, then sanitise your hands anyway. Nothing is OTT in a pandemic!! Fabric masks depend on people washing them between wearings, which may not happen.
I think the time difference between viral particles sticking to plastics and to porous surface is something like up to 7 hours on work surfaces, three hours for plastics and a little less for porous surfaces, so basically not that huge a difference. I quarantine everything that comes into the house for about a week (recommended time is 72 hours min), except packs of fresh veg and fruit; with them I remove the wrapping and toss it, then the inside box and the product should be virus free, depending on how long ago they were harvested, (so they are thoroughly washed before eating just in case, but that would happen anyway).
For getting fuel, I'm shielding too. Mr F fills the car: he wears gloves we supply ourselves and disposes of them in the bin on site. If there are gloves provided, he puts them on over our own pair for using the pump. He always goes to a pump which takes cards, and he makes sure there is no-one too close. You have bag loads of common sense Annie, so don't be scared by this thread, just do what you know is right. We have no card pumps near us so he fills up when collecting groceries from places like Sainsbury's and Tesco which seem to have card pumps. If necessary, drive that little bit further to find a refill station you are happy with - you are in your safe place and no-one is checking how far you drive. If you were by some freakish policy stopped by police, then explain your decision - Cummings did it, you are no different, you are able to look to your own best interests. The Gov text that came through today says, and I quote: <<.. you can safely make choices that reflect your own needs>> So no problem, be in control of your own life