[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I don't quite get this.......there hasn't been any strike announced yet....only the possibility of one. The Army are being trained up to drive the tankers(just in case) and all this panic has been caused by the government.....who must now be rubbing their hands at the extra revenue they will get from this surge in buying.

Are motorists just daft or what?

Both the government, for creating the scare, and the panic buyers are daft, for listening to them.

Some people easily fall into siege mentality.

I won't tell you what some people were prepared to do for six oven bottoms, when there was rumour of a flour shortage in the seventies.