I come a little late with this, but from an article on the French pension reform protests:

Strikes by oil refinery workers have sparked fuel shortages that forced at least 1,000 gas stations to be shuttered. Other stations saw large crowds. At an Esso station on the southeast edge of Paris on Tuesday morning, the line snaked along a city block and some drivers stood with canisters to stock gasoline in case of shortages.

Mr. Sarkozy said such shortages "cannot exist in a democracy."

"There are people who want to work, the immense majority, and they cannot be deprived of gasoline," he insisted.

But I beg to differ: such shortages can easily exist in a democracy, unless Mr. Sarkozy has - understandably - forgotten the distinctions between capitalism (oil economy) and democracy.

from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/french-pension-protests-take-violent-turn/article1763061/

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