Europe Fuel Shortage Reports

Tuike · **Posted:** Sat May 17, 2008 12:51 pm

I can't find any news about the fuel shortage in Greece. It must be over if there's no more news.

Twilight · **Joined:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:00 am **Posts:** 3062

Tuike wrote:

I can't find any news about the fuel shortage in Greece. It must be over if there's no more news.

Those poor people. They never stood a chance.

DomusAlbion · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2008 7:31 am

French fishermen are having a hard time of it and doing what the French do when they're feeling pain.

Strike

M_B_S · **Joined:** Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:00 am **Posts:** 273

DomusAlbion wrote:

French fishermen are having a hard time of it and doing what the French do when they're feeling pain.

Strike

Nice Avatar

More protests are on the way to europe!

BATTLE STATIONS
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Widespread wrath

Anger is also spreading rapidly to other sectors, including transport and agriculture, which have also been heavily hit by the price increases.

In France, thousands of farmers demonstrated and blocked oil depots throughout the country. At the same time, dairy farmers in Germany went on strike, blaming rising fuel prices for pushing up their operating costs while the retail price of milk is actually falling after the EU raised production quotas by 2% (EurActiv 07/02/08). They were followed by farmers in Austria, Denmark, Holland and Belgium.

Truck and taxi drivers also blocked the streets of London, Paris and Sofia last week, calling for government help.

http://www.euractiv.com/de/soziales-eur ... cle-172898
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This is only the beginning ....

PEAK OIL!

M_B_S

There are going to be cannibals in Chicago.

C. Campbell

Twilight · **Joined:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:00 am **Posts:** 3062

The Shell subcontractor tanker drivers' strike is finally affecting supply in the UK. Two Shell petrol stations that were open last Friday were empty and shut on Sunday.

This morning one was running again. Overnight delivery must have come in. It was empty and shut mid-afternoon, within 7 hours. Who knows, maybe by lunchtime.

The rest seem to be doing OK. Traffic seems normal too. Officials say daily demand is up by a quarter or a third, so a chunk of the forecourt inventory is being transferred to the consumers' own inventory faster than it can be topped up. There is a limit to how much can be withdrawn in this manner of course. However, with a second 4-day strike possibly taking place at the end of this week, the distributors may not have the transport capacity to rebalance the system immediately.

Twilight · **Joined:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:00 am **Posts:** 3062

Interactive shortage map.

See, public service broadcasting has its uses. Through the miracle of mobile internet and pocket GPS, panic queues can be redirected across a city in real time. I remember in 2000 this was done through radio phone-ins - our technological marvels bring a tear to my eyes.

pup55 · **Joined:** Wed May 26, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 4447

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PETROL stations in the Capital are beginning to feel the strain of the fuel tanker drivers' strike, with some pumps already completely dry.
Talks were set to be held today in a bid to resolve the dispute, which has led to hundreds of workers going on strike since Friday morning.

The drivers are due to return to work tomorrow at 6am, but petrol stations say they do not know when their

fuel deliveries will get back to normal

Scotsman

Quote:

ANGRY SCENES AS DESPERATE DRIVERS LOOK FOR FUEL

BY NADIA STONE

11:40 - 16 June 2008

Garage forecourts were running dry over the weekend as motorists queued to fill up their vehicles.

Both major Sainsbury's stores were out of fuel by the end of trade on Saturday, their forecourts lying deserted.

A spokeswoman from the Alphington store said the fuel stations had closed on Saturday night as the shops called it a night. And she confirmed they had not opened in the morning.

Exeter.com

wisconsin_cur · **Joined:** Thu May 10, 2007 12:00 am **Posts:** 4616

Strikes bring Risk of shortages in Britain

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WILDCAT strikes may threaten fuel and power supplies this week with an escalation of protests against foreign workers taking key contracts, despite Gordon Brown’s pledge to secure “British jobs for British workers”.

There are calls for a national boycott of filling stations run by Total, the French oil company, and plans to move the protest south by blockading the oil-fired Isle of Grain power station in north Kent which provides 3% of the energy needs of the National Grid.

As ministers held emergency meetings with union leaders yesterday to try to stem the flow of unofficial protests, militant shop stewards were plotting their next moves.

A plan for a national march against foreign workers, to take place in London, is under way and organisers are already in touch with farmers and hauliers who staged the protests against fuel tax in 2000.

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