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And because the French are experts at strikes, riots, and revolution (Hello Marie Antoinette! Where’s your head at girl?!), they don’t just strike by walking around with poster board signs, chanting. Instead they get real creative with it. Like shutting down production at twelve of the country’s oil refineries creative.

There’s something like a 1,000 gas stations around France that have run out of gas (thank you CNN). No gas! This does not bode well for the American girl living on top of a mountain in the middle of B.F.E. Provence. What am I supposed to do, harness Fifty to a little red wagon?
(Can you imagine? “MUSH Fifty! MUSH!”). 

Check out this video from Paris…

(I’d have shown you a video in Le Petit Village but we don’t have a ‘fuel station’ because we’re so petit).


http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=world/2010/10/18/bittermann.france.fuel.cnn

And on Monday, a bunch of cars were overturned and set on fire. But (big but here) according to France24, the overturned and burnt out cars were not done by any of the workers on strike, but school children who didn’t know what to do when they showed up at school and the gates were locked due to their teachers being on strike.

PHEW! Well, that’s OK then. Just some bored school children who were so disappointed not to have that algebra quiz.
(Oh, and a school in north western France was burned down but since we’re not 100% sure if it’s related to the strike or not, we’re not going to worry about it).