Well, and this is where it ends. Some of you might have heard about the "fuel crisis" in the UK in mid September 2000. For those of you who don't here's a summary and my view on the story:
The UK has fairly high taxes on petrol, at time of writing this probably the highest in Europe. Encouraged by the protests in France, truck drivers and farmers in the UK decided to do something as well: They started blockades (although they claim it they were only protesting peacefully, but I beg to differ) of fuel depots and refineries. And the oil companies didn't seem to be exactly unhappy about what was happening. Say what you want, but if I don't hear any evidence that the oil companies really couldn't get any tankers out and were trying all they could I have my suspicions... What that meant was that within a very short period of time petrol stations all over the UK started to run dry. |