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helefra Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Let There Be Light
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Drivers are being urged not to panic buy amid fears petrol stations may run dry when tanker drivers strike this week. Deliveries to around one in 10 garages will be halted from 6am on Friday. Around 1,000 Shell forecourts face running out in the four day stoppage. Supplies to other firms are also at risk because of increased demand. Ministers have introduced emergency measures to try to stop dry pumps and panic buying like that in the 2000 blockade by hauliers and farmers.  Gordon Brown's spokesman urged: "The most responsible thing the public can do is continue to buy as normal to avoid creating problems." Around 500 drivers at Hoyer UK and Suckling Transport, sole suppliers to Shell forecourts, have rejected a 6.5 per cent rise, half the 13 per cent they demanded. Unite union leader Len McCluskey said they earn around £32,000 - "exactly the same as in 1992 while Shell makes £1.3billion every month. This dispute could be settled for less than £1million." He said Shell's directors pocketed an almost 16 per cent increase this year. Talks aimed at resolving the row will be held today headed by the conciliation service Acas. More than 80 trucks travelled in convoy from Glasgow to the Scottish parliament yesterday to protest over soaring fuel costs. They were joined by taxis as they crawled along the M8 into Edinburgh to hand in a letter about the £30 a week rises. There were huge queues at petrol stations across Spain yesterday as truckers blocked deliveries in the second day of a protest at fuel prices. In Catalonia, four in 10 stations ran dry. Police motorbikes escorted fuel tankers through pickets to some petrol stations. Last edited on 01:36 pm by helefra |
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