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Petrol crisis? Just wait ’till we run out of couscous
| April 3, 2012 | Posted by Dan Peacock under satire |
In all honesty, the recent petrol crisis has unnerved me a little. It’s nothing to do with the widespread reports of people brawling for petrol outside Morrisons, or the solitary case of a woman severely burning herself while decanting petrol. It’s more to do with how quickly and easily society can freak out over what was essentially a government-funded rumour. And how much we depend on things that are beyond our control. I remember as a young lad vaguely hearing something on the news about “the possibility of terror attacks in the UK” shortly after we entered Iraq, and something or other about the water supply. Suddenly you would go into Tesco and the bottled water aisle was empty. Empty. Even… more
