British Transport Minister Grant Shapps called on Britons to act as usual while buying petrol, and said there was no shortage of fuel and that the government had intervened to ease the shortage of drivers taking it to service stations.
In the past days, long queues of cars stood at service stations, and their drivers waited for their roles to refuel for hours, sometimes, after oil companies announced a shortage of drivers that caused problems in transportation from refineries, and some operators were forced to work with the quota system in distributing supplies, which is what Others pushed the stations to close, Reuters reported.
"There is an abundance of fuel, there is no shortage of fuel in the country," Shapps told Sky News. "So the most important thing is for people to behave as they used to and fill their car tanks as they used to, and therefore they will not stand in queues." There will also be no crises in front of the pumps."
Shapps described the fuel scare as a "made-up situation" and blamed it on the Drivers' Association.
"They are trying very hard to get more European drivers who are paid less than the British," he said.
On Sunday, the government announced a plan to grant temporary visas to 5,000 foreign truck drivers.
But senior company officials have warned that this solution is short-lived, will not solve a severe staff shortage and risks major problems beyond fuel supplies and including retailers' pre-Christmas activity.
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The UK will grant up to 10,500 temporary work visas;
Seeking to respond to the labor shortage, the government made a decision on Saturday that represents an unexpected shift in immigration policy after Britain's exit from the European Union, Agence France-Presse reported.
These three-month visas, which run from October to December, will make up for the stark shortage of drivers and workers in key sectors of the British economy such as poultry farming.
In addition to threatening the fuel supply;
The shortage of truck drivers has hampered deliveries of food and other goods.
Retailers have warned the government that it has only 10 days to save the Christmas season from "major disruption" due to a shortage of about 90,000 drivers in the freight sector, according to the German news agency.
The Minister of Transport said that the changes - which will see the provision of visas from next October - "will ensure that preparations remain on the right track" for the holiday season.