The British government calls in the army as UK gas stations run dry for a second week and shortages crisis grows
"I am completely, completely fed up. Why is the country not ready for anything?" Ata Uriakhil, a 47-year-old Afghanistan-born taxi driver who was first in a line of more than 40 cars outside a closed supermarket gas station in South West London,Uriakhil told Reuters that his weekly earnings had been reduced by 20%, as his time was occupied by waiting in queues for fuel rather than driving fares.
"When is it going to end?," Uriakhil said."The politicians are not capable of doing their jobs properly. The government should have been prepared for this crisis. It is just incompetence." The Petrol Retailers Association said members reported on Friday that 26% of pumps were dry, 27% had just one fuel type in stock, and 47% had enough petrol and diesel."Independents, which total 65% of the entire network, are not receiving enough deliveries of fuel compared with other sectors such as supermarkets," Gordon Balmer, executive director of the Petrol Retail Association, told Reuters.
The government has written to all Heavy Goods Vehicles license holders - past and present - to offer them training in. an attempt to plug the labor shortage.
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