Re: Panic at the Pumps
Yes, I’m seeing that “it has emerged” in various press outlets this morning. And so we discover the Petrol Retailers Association, just like the Road Haulage Association, instinctively blamed handy external factors for its problems while ignoring business decisions taken a little closer to home.
Of course with road haulage, chronic low pay and poor conditions has been the industry’s own fault. It’s unclear whether switching forecourts from E5 to E10 could have been done in a way that didn’t deliberately run down supply quite as much as it seems to have done. Still, a little honesty would have been better than lazy bandwagon hopping.
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