henryscat
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Even those that don't drive will be effected. More or less everything that you buy in this Country is moved by diesel consuming truck and that includes the food that you buy from your local shops or supermarket & so I don't think anyone driver or otherwise can "feel smug"
Isn't it a coincidence that the Government openly insights a fuel panic just at the end of the financial year when if we have another quarter of negative growth we will technically be back in recession. A nice way of bumping up the tax reciepts for them and hopefully heading that one off.....Same old Tories.....
If (and it still remains if!) there is a strike hauliers will be prioritised above forecourts to keep supermarket distribution going.
As for tax receipts - that's a red herring... People aren't actually consuming any greater amount of fuel than they otherwise would, the silly sods are panic buying which just causes a spike in sales which will eventually be matched by a corresponding drop. So, the government isnt making any more than they would in the absence of a strike.