Automakers and steel companies are suffering disruptions. Production was cut at one of the Hyundai Motors domestic plants and halted at Posco, South Korea’s largest steel maker.

South Korea’s Transport Ministry is urging drivers to return to work.

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There has been growing panic about the shortage – a long-term problem exacerbated by the Coronavirus pandemic and Brexit – to the point that there is speculation the military will be brought in to drive trucks.

The British Department for Transport said 5,000 fuel tanker and food truck drivers would be allowed to work in the country for three months before Christmas.

Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC that while he did not want to “undercut” British workers, he could not stand by while lines formed outside gas stations.  Shapps said Britain has adequate fuel supplies but asked drivers not to hoard fuel.

“We knew in particular that when we exited the E.U., there would be a need for a backup plan to deal with the situation,” Labour Party leader Keir Starmer told the BBC.

Overall, an estimated 200,000 E.U. citizens left Britain during the pandemic and have not returned, Stephen Castle reported for the New York Times.

David Henig, of the European Center for International Political Economy, said that the disruption could be a feature of life for some time to come.

“We are at the start of an economic transition, and we are not sure what it will lead to,” Henig told Castle.  “We have never seen this before, so we don’t know what happens.”

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