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UK readies soldiers to help ease gas shortages at pumps
Long lines of vehicles have formed at many gas stations around Britain since Friday, causing spillover traffic jams on busy roads. Tempers have frayed as some drivers waited for hours.
The Petrol Retailers Association, which represents almost 5,500 independent outlets, said Sunday that about two-thirds of its members had run out of fuel, as the truck driver shortage set off rounds of gas panic-buying.
The Conservative government blamed the problems on consumer behavior.
The haulage industry says the U.K. is short as many as 100,000 truckers, due to a perfect storm of factors including the coronavirus pandemic, an aging workforce and an exodus of foreign workers following Britains departure from the European Union last year. Post-Brexit immigration rules mean EU citizens can no longer live and work visa-free in Britain, as they could when the U.K. was a member of the bloc.
Long lines of vehicles have formed at many gas stations around Britain since Friday, causing spillover traffic jams on busy roads. Tempers have frayed as some drivers waited for hours.
The Petrol Retailers Association, which represents almost 5,500 independent outlets, said Sunday that about two-thirds of its members had run out of fuel, as the truck driver shortage set off rounds of gas panic-buying.
The Conservative government blamed the problems on consumer behavior.
The haulage industry says the U.K. is short as many as 100,000 truckers, due to a perfect storm of factors including the coronavirus pandemic, an aging workforce and an exodus of foreign workers following Britains departure from the European Union last year. Post-Brexit immigration rules mean EU citizens can no longer live and work visa-free in Britain, as they could when the U.K. was a member of the bloc.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-mulls-calling-army-ease-gas-shortage-pumps-80254906
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Sep 2021
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)1. "The food supply will be adequate" - 2018
An island with trade restrictions, how stupid can they be?
Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)2. Aging populations need immigrants
Countries with aging populations need immigrants to work and pay taxes to fund services. Countries who reject immigration are going to crumble as their populations age and can no longer work.
hunter
(38,264 posts)3. Nationalism, and its dirty friend bigotry, are a disease.
Nationalists and bigots are never as self-sufficient as they think they are.
Delphinus
(11,808 posts)5. Heavens!
That is an amazing compilation - did you do that?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)7. +1 Awesome
I got it the old fashioned way,
I horked it off Imger.
hunter
(38,264 posts)6. No one could have foreseen this!
Larissa
(786 posts)9. Weather changing at a bad time
To quote George R.R. Martin: "Winter is coming."
crickets
(25,896 posts)10. Yikes. Brexit is the gift that just keeps on giving. nt