Sunday, September 17, 2000: Huge queues choke petrol stations across Britain

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The story below is the very latest on the continuing energy crisis in Europe. The story was posted Sunday morning in Australia. The crisis is clearly continuing. Yet CNN, NBC, CNBC are downplaying and largely ignoring this huge story...Where are the catchy "Energy Crisis" logos and breaking news on the most significant energy crisis since the 70's?:

September 17, 2000

Huge queues choke petrol stations across Britain

Britons clamoured for scarce petrol at service station pumps as protests over high petrol taxes simmered on across Europe.

Roughly a quarter of Britain's pumps were operating early in the day, and those were taken by storm, with police called in to keep order among drivers clamouring to fill their tanks.

"The trouble is, as soon as deliveries are made, the stations run dry again," said a spokesman for the Shell oil company.

"The tankers are being followed for miles by queues of motorists desperate to see where the fuel is being delivered."

Meanwhile, Norway's main road transport union NLF has threatened to pull trucks belonging to 5,000 companies off the road on October 11 if fuel taxes are not lowered in next year's budget, which the government will present on October 4.

"The situation for Norwegian truckers is so bad that we are forced to choose radical means to express ourselves," Anne Lise-Torjersen, the NLF spokeswoman said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2000/09/item20000917042542_1.htm

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), September 16, 2000


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