Fuel protesters go home

Almost exactly five years ago I wrote a rather angrier-titled piece about fuel protestors blockading refineries and depots. It’s about to happen again and it still angers me, though. I’m just waiting in the next few days to hear protestors telling the media that they’re not hitting essential services, but I still don’t understand how hospital workers, ambulance crews and paramedics are supposed to be able to get fuel for their own cars. I don’t know how people who have to use their cars to get their children to childcare or school are supposed to manage.