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FUEL COSTS CRISIS * WORLDWIDE
* EUROPE - Anger boils in, over rising fuel prices
London,UK -Cox News Service/The Chronicle Herald (Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada), by SHELLEY EMLING -15 June 2008: -- While North Americans motorists are feeling the pinch at the pumps this summer, it’s even worse for Europeans... Angered by soaring fuel prices, Europeans are protesting and taking a toll on consumers and companies by creating food shortages, blocked highways and the deaths of two people in Spain and Portugal... Motorists are paying the equivalent of $10 a gallon in France, more than $9 a gallon in Britain and more than $8 a gallon in Belgium... Tens of thousands of truckers already are on strike or threatening to strike in Italy, Spain, France, Britain, and Portugal...
* Colombia - TRUCKERS STRIKE
Bogota,Colombia -Reuter/PBH Colombia, by mariacvetanoski - Jun 16, 2008: -- Colombian truck drivers went on strike on Monday to protest high fuel prices, tolls and freight payments, but the government said the shutdown would have only limited impact... Colombian President Alvaro Uribe planned to meet with the striking drivers on Monday to work out an agreement to end the protest... The Colombian Truckers Association said most of its members, or around 145,000 drivers, had joined the strike, which started at midnight on Sunday after talks with the transport ministry fell apart... Freight agreements, fuel costs, toll prices and access to credits were among the points the truckers wanted to address with the government, he said... Coffee exporters in the world's No. 3 grower had sent some deliveries to port early in anticipation and expect no impact if the strike lasted three or four days, said Jorge Lozano, president of the Asoexport coffee exporters association... (Photo: Parked trucks in Bogota)* SPAIN - Truck drivers end strike - Businesses gradually resumed work as normal by the end of the week. But ...
Madrid,Spain -The International Herald Tribune (Paris,France) -16 June 2008: -- ... One minority group of truckers, the Transport Defense Platform, said it would stay on strike. Police moved Monday to prevent truckers from the group from protesting in Madrid by ordering vehicles not transporting or picking up goods to get off the road... The striking groups had argued for minimum rates on grounds they cannot compete with large trucking companies they said were better able to cope with diesel fuel prices that have risen 36 percent in a year... The government argued that the demand interfered with free-market competition...
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