UK to deploy soldiers within days to help ease fuel shortage
The U.K. oil industry said the fuel crisis is easing after the government deployed additional tankers and put the army on standby to drive trucks.
There are “signs that the situation at the pumps has begun to improve,” fuel suppliers including BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. said in a joint statement on Wednesday. “We remain confident that the situation will stabilize further in the coming days.”
Earlier in the day, the U.K. government said it is deploying its reserve tanker fleet to ease the crisis that’s brought chaos to the nation’s gas stations. Army drivers will be used within “days,” Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said.
