Fuels: skyrocketing prices, trucks blocked from Monday. On the island, supermarkets and distributors stormed

Long lines

However, the truck drivers took a first result home: the announcement circulated Wednesday afternoon of an indefinite blockade of goods ignited the Sardinians' fear of soon running out of food and fuel. Long queues until yesterday were registered almost everywhere on the island in front of markets and petrol stations. A real mass psychosis.

In Ogliastra, most of the service stations sold the diesel fuel that they usually dispense in four days in 24 hours. The race to the column began in the late afternoon of Wednesday and continued non-stop even during the night with the self service. So much so that, yesterday morning, the owners of the Fiamma 2000 plant in Girasole found themselves without supplies. Same situation in Lotzorai, at the Q8 stations of Tortolì and Lanusei. The reasons for the race? "Most customers fear that there will be a gas station strike but it is absolutely not expected", explained Andrea Nieddu, owner of the Q8 in via Garibaldi, in Tortolì.

The phony chat messages have also affected food distribution stores. «No alarm, the supplies are insured. There was no crowd here, ”said Franco Tegas, one of the owners of the Conad point in Tortolì.

Same scenes in Sulcis, where the scenes in front of supermarkets brought to mind what happened two years ago with the first lockdown from Covid. In Carbonia, hundreds of people, especially the elderly, stormed the shops and service areas early in the morning. In some cases, fifty-meter lines to enter the markets or access the green or diesel dispensers.

Also in Iglesias the assault started from the early hours of the morning: the petrol stations registered queues worthy of a Ferragostan eve threatened by an imminent lockout of the pumps and the supermarket shelves were raided. Flour and water basic necessities disappeared from the shelves first.

(Unioneonline)

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