05 July 2006

Fuel Crisis 2

Here's an update for the fuel crisis:

My father went out today, at 6:30 am, about half an hour after sunrise, bound to the fuel station to fill the car. He found the 4 kms line already there! It turns out that people are spending the night waiting in the line!

The line advanced slowly, because there were still so many cars coming from the exit into the station after paying a 10,000 IDs bribe to the door guards.

The price of 20 litres has become 38000-40000 IDs, that is if you could find any.

He waited in the line until it was 6 pm, that is almost 12 hours, without getting any fuel because the station closed at 6 pm!

The only thing he got was a bad sunburn, or tan as you may call it.

I decided to open expences for fuel no matter how high its price may reach, because we live on this small generator of ours, and services like bakers have become so far since the closer ones closed due to terrorist threats.

Last time i mentioned electricity improvment. I am so sorry for bringing that up. It was a short lived 2-nights improvment, and then it's back to "normal", and normal means 1.5 hours yes, 4.5 hours no... And the "no" time is increasable of course.

The security situation has become a rotten tomato joke... A lady who's a member of parliament was kidnapped, followed by a deputy minister one day later, who was a bit more lucky because he was released at the same day.

So, to wrap it up on fuel... No fuel to run the generator, no fuel to drive around and necessary stuff, and no electricity from the "national" source.

Good Grief!