- National Energy Action warns up to 1.5m more households could be plunged into fuel poverty next spring
- Analysts doubt Russia can pump more gas to Europe
The UK’s petrol Retailers Association, which represents two-thirds of filling stations, has said that the fuel crisis was made worse by a change brought in by the government, forcing retailers to drain E5 petrol out of tanks to make way for E10 in September.
The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, denied this on BBC radio 4’s Today programme:
This is factually untrue. This has had absolutely no impact whatsoever on the process.
That changeover is all the way to November… That isn’t part of the story.
It was a very cold winter in Russia last winter and Russian production is actually at record levels, it’s well up on last year of course when demand was down, but it’s also up on 2019 levels, and they’ve been having to refill their own storage as well which was depleted badly because of the cold weather.
So it’s extremely doubtful whether they could supply more gas, whatever the route.
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