“A limited number of military tank drivers must be willing to intervene and mobilize, if necessary, to stabilize fuel supplies,” the British Department of Business and Energy said in a statement.
The military, who will receive emergency training, he said, will deliver gasoline to stations “where it is needed most and to provide more assurance that fuel supplies will continue to be plentiful.”
Business and Energy Minister Kwasi Quarteng made a demand to the British military a few hours after the executive said it was not expected that the military would be forced to help control a shortage of operators in the dangerous goods transport sector anytime soon.
The British government today put dozens of military personnel on standby to help solve fuel supply problems caused by a shortage of truck drivers, which has sparked panic over the purchase of gasoline across the country.
While unions have called for prioritizing service workers in fuel supply, the Boris Johnson government explained that it is putting army truck drivers “ready to deploy, if necessary, to get fuel where it is needed most.” …
Kwasi Quarteng said the UK has “large reserves of fuel.”
“However, we are aware of the supply chain problems at petrol stations and are taking action to mitigate them as a matter of priority,” he said.
The UK fuel shortage is linked to supplies caused by “panic,” the president of the British Gas Station Association (PRA) said today, asking the government to seek help from the army.
“One of our members got the tank at noon, and in the late afternoon it completely disappeared into people’s cars,” Brian Madderson told the BBC this morning.
According to the official, who explained the situation as “pure panic” of motorists, the stations “are filling up, but the number of tanks they receive is less than necessary.”
He added that stations in urban areas of the country were hardest hit, while rural areas and Northern Ireland did not appear to be affected.
On Sunday, the PRA warned that about two-thirds of the nearly 5,500 affiliated independent outlets ran out of fuel, while the rest were “partially dry or about to run out.”
In recent days, the influx of supplies has intensified after several oil companies announced the closure of some stations due to difficulties in supplying them, which they attributed to a lack of truck drivers to transport tanks from refineries.
Lines of dozens of cars and hours of waiting lined up around some of the gas stations, and police were called in to oversee the skirmish between customers at a London service station.
In a joint statement, industry companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil and Greenergy stressed that the supply difficulties were caused by “a temporary surge in consumer demand, not a fuel shortage in the country.”
In recent days, the government has called for calm and awareness among motorists to buy only the gasoline or diesel they need, but it was forced to take action over the weekend by announcing 5,000 visas for foreign truck drivers.
The package also includes a suspension of competition rules so that oil companies can share resources to supply stations most in need, by sending letters urging truck drivers to return to the profession and using the military to speed up driving exams. heavy vehicles.
