A blockade over high petrol prices in Britain is starting to
bite with panic buying as pumps run dry. Troops are on
standby, the government is getting extra powers, and rogue
petrol stations are selling petrol at 11 pounds a gallon.
Meanwhile OPEC says don't blame them as they have lifted
production three times this year – rather, says OPEC,
consumers should blame the high taxes taken by Western
government's.
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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