UK: Four days’ fuel left as refinery strike looms

FILLING stations across Scotland have only four days worth of fuel left, experts warned last night as a strike at the country’s only oil refinery looms closer.

Supplies to airports, petrol stations and businesses across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland could be disrupted within a week as contingency plans to close operations at Grangemouth begin today.

The Westminster government has contingency plans to bring fuel from England in the event that next weekend’s twoday strike goes on. But industry insiders say it would be impossible to keep all filling stations supplied at normal levels.

MSPs and industry leaders yesterday appealed to the public not to “up the ante” by panic-buying petrol and called on both sides to meet again as a matter of urgency.

Scotsman