http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE69E1AN20101015?pageNumber=4&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true
Solidarity speaks volumes.
Striking French oil refinery workers shut down a fuel pipeline supplying Paris and its airports on Friday and airport workers grounded some flights as protests mounted to derail an unpopular pension reform.
France's airport operator played down worries of fuel shortages, but strikes at all of the country's 12 refineries and fuel depot blockades prompted motorists to stock up on petrol.
TV footage showed riot police using teargas to contain young protesters in the southern city of Lyon.
About 260 people were arrested throughout the country, police said, describing them mostly as "troublemakers", while about a dozen officers were injured.
In Paris, police got orders to stop using "flashball" riot-control pellets, a type of rubber bullet, to quieten crowds after a secondary school student was badly injured on Thursday.
