Bumpy road

11 June 2008 By Fiona Maharg-Bravo

Truck drivers are blocking roads in protest at high oil prices and fresh food could run out in days amid growing panic. The government doesn t have much room for manoeuvre. But the outcome will have ramifications in other countries where fuel prices are a hot political issue.

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The Spanish government's proposed package of remedies has failed to stop a threeday strike by some of the country's truck drivers. The strike, in protest at high fuel prices, has severed supply lines to supermarkets and petrol stations. Nearly half of the gas stations in Catalonia in the north were out of fuel. Three people have died so far after violence broke out during the strikes.

The truck drivers are demanding a minimum tariff for their services and connected to the price of fuel.

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