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To: Martin Wormser who wrote (6603)	9/18/2000 11:25:04 AM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Far be it from me to foment civil unrest, but here's how some are handling the fuel price problem: dailynews.yahoo.com Monday September 18 9:03 AM ET European Fuel Protests Pick Up Speed OSLO (Reuters) - The wave of fuel price protests sweeping through Europe regained momentum Monday after a weekend lull, while shaken governments scrambled to limit the political fallout. Monday's protests centered on Scandinavia but blockades sprang up at the Spanish port of Barcelona and in Slovenia, while Israeli truckers threatened to stage their own demonstrations from Tuesday. In Norway, demonstrators blocked 11 oil terminals at key ports along the south and west coasts, but later called off their protest under the threat of police action. Swedish truckers and farmers partially blockaded southern ports and ferries Monday in protest at a planned increase in the tax on diesel fuel. The protests were expected to involve about 400 drivers and stop traffic from ferries between Sweden and Denmark and Sweden and Germany. Spanish fishermen, meanwhile, sealed off Barcelona's port and truckers laid siege to fuel distribution points in the center of the country. Drivers throughout the continent, dismayed at rising prices of gasoline and diesel sparked by higher world oil prices, have been demanding their governments reduce the tax burden on fuel. [more...]