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Brexit is to blame for the fuel crisis, says the ‘winner’ of the German elections.


Britain’s fuel crisis escalated today as more gas stations sold out amid panic buying and the frontrunner to succeed Angela Merkel, as Germany’s prime minister, blamed Brexit. The Gasoline Retailers Association yesterday said that up to 90 percent of gas stations had been forced to close.

The United Kingdom faces an extremely complex situation due to the difficulty in completing the gasoline and diesel deliveries due to the lack of drivers. Brexit and the economic crisis derived from the covid have left the British with problems to refuel.

An example of this is the announcement of the temporary closure of various seasons of BP service due to the problems of the arrival of fuel to the country. The British company has advanced that it is in contact with its “transport provider” in order to “minimize interruptions and ensure efficient and effective deliveries»To your network of stations.

Despite the fact that the British Government Secretary for Transport, Grant Shapps, has guaranteed that there is “Much” fuel available, many Brits have approached gas stations and long queues have formed.

In this way, in some service station it has been possible to shoot in a 500% demand compared to a week ago, as oil companies prioritize highway gas stations, according to the Gas Station Retailers Association (PRA).

Causes of the crisis

The economic crisis and the process of change in the economic model after Brexit are two of the keys that help explain this phenomenon that is shaking the British soil. While the Executive steps on the accelerator to get new laws that alleviate the situation in a country that is suffering from this problem more than the rest.

Another of them is the shortage of workers in the sector derived from the policy of barriers to the entry of European labor. According to the British Road Transport Association (RHA) there is a 100,000 carrier deficit. Migrants are the ones in charge of transport-related tasks, usually the lowest paid.

Indeed, Pawel Adrjan, Chief Europe Economist for Indeed, has found that companies in various industries are putting pressure on the UK authorities to facilitate community hiringAlthough the shortage of labor in transport is a phenomenon that goes beyond the British borders.

“There are trends related to the pandemic that have changed the entire logistics and transportation system. People work more from home and buy online. Perhaps opening up the UK market for European truckers is not the solution, ”said Adrjan.

Consequences and actions of the Johnson Government

The Government of the United Kingdom rules out “for the moment” resorting to the Army to transport fuel tanks to the country’s gas stations, while looking for solutions to the shortage of carriers and the increase in demand for fear of shortages.
“The most important thing is that people buy gasoline as they normally would. There is no shortage, “declared the Minister of the Environment.

The British Environment Minister, George Eustice, clarified this Monday at BBC that, despite the insistent rumors spread by the media, “for now there are no plans to involve the Army” in transporting fuel to service stations. “The most important thing is that people buy gasoline as they normally would. There is no shortage, “reassured the minister.

Another of the measures announced by the Executive has to do with the lack of workers. From Westminster they have announced 10,500 temporary work visas to foreign carriers and employees of the poultry industry to try to alleviate the labor shortage that is hitting various sectors due to Brexit and the pandemic.

The shortage It is not only affecting gas stations, but also the supermarkets. The images taken by consumers portray the delicate food shortage situation in the UK. Entrepreneurs are concerned about the proximity of Christmas and the damage to the sector that a panorama like the current one could cause.

Faced with the chaos, the government yesterday temporarily suspended the application of the competition law to the fuel industry to make it easier for companies to “share information” and “optimize” supply to gas stations.

The spokesperson for the Economy of the opposition Labor Party, Rachel Reeves, recalled this Monday, at the time that the annual congress of that training began in Brighton (southern England), that the transport industry has been warning of the conductor shortagesy accuses the Executive of ignoring those messages.

“The Government ignored these problems and that is why we are now facing this situation, in which people go to the supermarket and find themselves with a shortage of products, and for which we are seeing lines at the gas stations to not be able to fill the tanks”, he regretted this Monday to ITV.

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