Providing a supply of fuel to keep emergency/essential services running will neither disuade union memebrs from striking nor allow the Government to make us all think that life will be going on as usual. The tanker drivers are well aware that a few Service drivers cannot take their place or seriously diminish the effect of their industrial action. No one is stupid enough to think that any government could play the card that says, 'you go on strike and we'll just bring in the trrops so that your action is completely ineffective.'
That is not what's happenning here.