One in three gas stations were forced to close in Southern England because of oil protests, fuel campaigners said.
On their tenth day of Just Stop Oil activists, whose members belong to Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, attacked three fuel depots in Hertfordshire, Essex and Warwickshire.
activists, who want Downing Street to put an end to everything new fossil fuel projects have locked themselves in pipes and blocked site entrances.
Approximately 1200 pumps south of in midlands were forced to refuse motorists, because of absence of fuel caused due to the breach, according to Fair Fuel UK.
Garages in Cambridgeshire were especially hard hit with 30 cars seen in line at the same time for gasoline at gas stations throughout the county.
Priti Patel, Home Secretary on On Sunday night, protesters were branded the “environmental mafia” as they blamed the Labor Party. for blocking conservative efforts give additional powers of the police.
Ms Patel told The Daily Mail: “A hardworking people selfish, fanatical and downright dangerous so-called activists are stopping their lives all over our country.
Keir Starmer’s Labor Party has repeatedly voted against our proposals that would give the police additional powers to deal with with this eco mob.
“The police have my full support in doing everything necessary to solve this public trouble.”
Howard Cox, founder of Fair Fuel UK, a lobbying company based in Kent group who aspires reduce accusations on diesel and petrol vehicles and has 1.7 million members, said the protesters are “destroying people’s lives and economy”.
He said he had more than two…half- thousand respondents to his questionnaire in in past 72 hours who claimed there was no supply of diesel/gasoline in them area.
“We have also called up about a hundred garages with 30 percent say they are short of supplies, he added.
This happened after protesters near the Kingsbury oil depot tried to dig a tunnel under the road. leading to the website with picks and shovels, using converted caravan to hide the tunnel from view.
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