Do you know the price of petrol?Tony Blair does now.And so does every chauffeur- driven head of government in Europe.By the time the crisis in Britain finally began to ease at the end of last week,virtually every gas station had been drained by panic buying and the country was within a day or two of coming to a complete standstill. ⚫ Do you know the price of petrol? Tony Blair does now. And so does every chauffeur￾driven head of government in Europe. By the time the crisis in Britain finally began to ease at the end of last week, virtually every gas station had been drained by panic buying and the country was within a day or two of coming to a complete standstill