{"id":439325,"date":"2021-09-30T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439325"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T06:32:07","slug":"british-army-to-start-driving-tankers-as-queues-for-fuel-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-army-to-start-driving-tankers-as-queues-for-fuel-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"British army to start driving tankers as queues for fuel continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British soldiers will start driving tankers to replenish empty pumps, as drivers queued again for fuel after days of shortages, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the situation was improving.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has been gripped by a rush of panic-buying for almost a week that has left pumps dry across major cities, after oil companies warned they did not have enough tanker drivers to move petrol and diesel from refineries to filling stations.<\/p>\n<p>Business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said 150 soldiers had been mobilised, and would be driving tankers within a few days. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last few days have been difficult, we\u2019ve seen large queues. But I think the situation is stabilising, we\u2019re getting petrol into the forecourts. I think we\u2019re going to see our way through this,\u201d Kwarteng said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British soldiers will start driving tankers to replenish empty pumps, as drivers queued again for fuel after days of shortages, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the situation was improving. Britain has been gripped by a rush of panic-buying for almost a week that has left pumps dry across major cities, after oil companies warned they did not have enough tanker drivers to move petrol and diesel from refineries to filling stations. Business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said 150 soldiers had been mobilised, and would be driving tankers within a few days. \u201cThe last few days have been difficult, we\u2019ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}