Petrol stations in France runout of fuel

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11563423
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The BBC's Christian Fraser says forecourts are running dry despite the prime minister saying there is enough fuel in the system

French truck drivers are the latest group of workers to join the strike movement against government plans to reform the state pension system.

They have staged several overnight protests, including a go-slow on motorways near Lille, Paris and Lyon.
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More than 1,000 supermarket petrol stations have run out of fuel, their industry association has said.
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It's now looking like 1968

[TBF]

1. So glad the truck drivers joined the strike. Solidarity! nt

[Lasher]

2. Go French patriots!

Fighting the good fight against the real enemy.

[txlibdem]

3. Drive an electric car and you won't care if the gasoline/petrol runs dry

My family is hanging on to our paid for '02 vehicle until we can afford to buy an electric car. We've made a promise to ourselves that we will never buy a fossil fuel burner vehicle ever again.

[canoeist52]

4. "70% of French people continue to support strike action."

"Workers at France's 12 oil refineries remain on strike for the seventh day on Monday, unions officials have said."

[NoPasaran]

5. Looking like 1968 again?

Ah, the year de Gaulle remained in power and gained an increased majority in parliamentary elections.

[malaise]

6. That's the frightening part

:hi:

[Wednesdays]

8. That doesn't square with the 70% support figure

...unless people don't think the strike has anything to do with Sarkozy.

Edit: Plus, in 1968, the motivation behind the protests were different. Wikipedia: "In staging wildcat strikes, the movement contrasted with the labor unions and the French Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français, PCF), which began to side with the de Gaulle government.<1> Groups revolted against modern consumer and technical society and embraced left-wing positions that were more critical of Stalinist authoritarianism than of Western capitalism." (emphasis mine)

Also, in 1968 you could say de Gaulle "won the battle but lost the war."
"May 1968 was a political failure for the protesters, but it had an enormous social impact. In France, it is considered to be the watershed moment when a conservative moral ideal (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) shifted towards a more liberal moral ideal (sexual liberation) that today better describes French society, in theory if not in practice."

[elehhhhna]

7. great! it'll make it harder for aLQuada to get around.

as if.