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Watching the local news over the last week my greatest fears have been realised. Milton Keynes, The city of the car, has turned into the city of "car"nage. (Please forgive me for the awful pun). Protests have been popping up around the city as the government announced that these prices hikes may be hear to stay, and that the national oil reserve is already in a very sorry shape. The word rationing was throw around frequently in a press release by the Ministry of Transport. This grey news lead to wide scale hoarding, protests and unfortunately violence. Below is an extract from the local paper:  The City Burns This is the sight that met the population of Oldbrook on the morning of May 3rd. Reports have still not been confirmed when we went to press but we believe that there was a crash between groups of protestors. But the outcome is clear as firefighters fought all night to try and contain the blaze. In a time where petrol reserves are low this is not the scenes we wish to see. There have been 3 reported casualties, and many more are in hospital being treated for burns, 2 are critical. This is a very grey day for the city, and unfortunately I doubt that it will be the last we'll hear about incidents like this that are springing up world wide with more and more frequency. Looking back at past fuel shortages it's easy to see what the short term effect can be, but long term is totally un-charted waters for the UK, Europe and the world. Here are some of the effects from the 2000 fuel shortage, notice the cost from a 1 week shortage, £1 billion!!! "Executive Summary In September 2000, British farmers and truck drivers launched a dramatic campaign of direct action to protest a fuel duty. Their campaign followed a similar one by farmers, truckers, and fishermen in France, which had resulted in concessions from the French government. The UK protesters blockaded fuel refineries and distribution depots, and, within days, created a fuel crisis that paralyzed CI sectors and brought the country to a virtual halt. The impact of the protest was much deeper than anticipated because it struck at a particularly vulnerable point of the UK economy -- the oil distribution network, which had been organized along just-in-time delivery principles. This, combined with anticipated shortages by fuel consumers and consequent panic buying, magnified the impact of the protests on practically all CI sectors in the UK. The disruption in the energy sector created a chain reaction among other CI sectors such as transportation, health care, food distribution, financial and government services due to their interconnectivity and interdependencies. The financial impact of the week-long fuel drought was estimated at close to £1 billion." So with riots happening, talks of rationing and a government that's totally clueless I think I may soon up and leave the city and go to my old nans house, I think cars are considered evil there, that can't be a good thing in this impending crisis.  Is this what a rationing queue may look like in the future? Keep it green and keep safe people Michael in MK x
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