'A really stressful situation': The people stranded by Britain's fuel crisis
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As well as dropping people off at nightclubs, train stations and shopping centers, David Lawrie's taxi drivers are relied upon to transport disabled passengers, and drive children to school. But as fuel stations across the UK run dry, those drivers are having to make difficult decisions about who does and doesn't get to travel.
The UK military is on standby to deliver gasoline to service stations after a shortage of truck drivers forced some to close last week, triggering a spate of panic buying by British motorists. Drivers have been forced to wait in line for hours at the pumps that are still open, and local media has reported instances of violence between irate customers as tensions rise.
But people who don't drive might be the most disadvantaged.
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