The Federal Ministry of Transport cares, according to information of "Bild am Sonntag" in the situation center to the intensified gasoline emergency in Germany.
Due to the low water level on the Rhine, there are supply bottlenecks of gasoline and diesel in the region. For this reason, the German government released reserves from the national oil reserve for North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of October. In early November, the stocks were largely retrieved by the petroleum industry and sold along the Rhine.
However, there is still a lack of fuel at petrol stations in North Rhine-Westphalia. Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) told the "BamS": "My situation center reported to me the replenishment problem and the situation at the gas stations in the early evening and we are already working hard to remedy the situation." In addition to the opening of the national fuel reserve and the Sunday and holiday driving ban for the tank trucks had been canceled weeks ago.
"Now we need further measures," said Scheuer. The ministry has been in exchange with the oil industry and the associations for weeks.