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Army put on standby due to UK petrol shortage

The British government put the army on standby to help alleviate fuel supply problems after people wanted to refuel in long lines for the fourth day in a row and one petrol station after another closed.

Gasoline shortage in recent days Panic to refuel Advanced, but the cause of the basic problem Not enough truck and truck drivers in the country. Brexit, the pandemic, as well as wage levels and the fact that the workforce is practically aging have all contributed to this. According to a survey by the British Road Carriers Association in August, there are now more than a hundred thousand fewer drivers in the UK than there were 600 thousand before the pandemic. The situation has been exacerbated by Brexit and the fact that at least 30,000 truck driving tests have been missed due to the pandemic. After the news that there were fuel delivery problems due to a shortage of trucks, people panicked at gas stations. The panic buying continued despite Shell, ExxonMobil and Greenergy declaring in a joint statement that the supply problem was not due to a national fuel shortage but a sudden increase in demand.




Photo: ZHANNA MANUKYAN/Sputnik via AFP

According to the BBC, up to 150 drivers of military tankers can now be trained and deployed if necessary. Energy Minister Kwasi Quarting said putting the military on alert was a “reasonable and prudent step” because “deploying the military if needed could provide additional supply chain capacity, which could relieve pressure from higher fuel demand.”

Knowing that military drivers still need to undergo special training before they can be deployed, which can take up to five days.

In addition to the deployable military, the government has authorized the extension of special driver’s licenses to include more drivers who can carry gasoline. For this reason, special licenses that expire between September 27 and December 31 will be extended until January 31, 2022, without the need to undergo further training or testing.

The major fuel manufacturers also said in a joint statement that they tried to reassure everyone that the shortage is only caused by a sudden increase in demand that many cars now believe that there is more fuel than usual, which is why demand is expected to slowly return in the coming days.. to levels natural.




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Meanwhile, the union of health workers and prison workers has demanded that care workers be given priority over purchasing fuel.

Although some ambulance services have their own gas stations on site and their care is expected to be a real priority, an ambulance doctor in north London told the BBC he had had to visit several wells in recent days because there was no petrol anywhere.

A woman who tried to take her husband to hospital when he needed fuel said he obviously blamed the media for the madness at the gas stations: “If no one talked about this, the truck drivers and everything, this panic would have started” .

The government has temporarily exempted fuel companies from competition law so they can work together and negotiate to target fuels in the most important parts of the country. In addition, it was announced that a temporary visa would be issued to 5,000 foreign fuel and food truck drivers until Christmas Eve. In this regard, Richard Walker, managing director of an Icelandic store, told BBC Two Newsnight that visas will only start in mid-October and he does not know anyway, “Who will give up a full-time job in Europe for a few weeks”.

After the UK left the EU, many European drivers have either returned home or decided to work elsewhere, but not only Brexit but the pandemic has prompted a lot of foreign workers to go home. Because of the latter, truck shortages also occurred in Germany and Poland.

(BBC)

(Large image: Zhanna Manoukian/Sputnik/Sputnik via AFP)

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