Queues from early morning lined up to the stations as car drivers were afraid that petrol will end in the coming days because of the strike of the owners of petrol tanks. Traffic jams on the ring road of Athens and other central boulevards also caused traffic problems as owners of trucks and tanks stopped their vehicles on the road, waiting to go on a protest march to the Parliament in the city center at noon.

The Financial Minister George Papakonstantinou leaves on a road show to meet potential international investors and convince the business circles of the old continent that Greece has gone along the way of economic stability.

Gas stations owners: "We will carry gasoline by our own tanks, we won't allow citizens to become hostage to client politics"; the government has introduced maximum price of the unleaded fuel.