fuel crisis enters second week
Motorists could face another week of long queues at the filling stations as demand for petrol remains strong, a Government minister has suggested.
Policing minister Kit Malthouse told the Today Programme that the “return to normality” could take a “week or so”.
Malthouse said:“We are still seeing strong demand in parts of the country around fuel. The distribution mechanism is trying to respond to this unprecedented demand.
“I think if things started to deteriorate further, obviously the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Energy, whose responsibility this is, will have to review the situation.”
One option is to deploy the army drivers who are on standby, and have been receiving specialist training to learn how to drive fuel tankers.