Rationing brings echoes of price protests that led to panic buying and filling stations running dry
As Britain faces an escalating energy and fuel crisis, with BP rationing deliveries of petrol, there are echoes of autumn 2000 when shortages brought the country to a virtual standstill.
Protests over prices led to the pumps running dry on many filling station forecourts. The crisis, precipitated by a big rise in fuel prices, caught the government and motorists by surprise.
