Peak Oil News - Drivers infuriated by shortage of affordable fuel (Egypt)

Taxis queued in front of gas stations across Cairo as the congested city suffered a shortage of 80-octane and diesel fuel, a crisis that reached its peak last week. “I have to stay in queues for two hours or more, and sometimes I do not even find fuel available for my car,” said Hussein Soliman, a taxi driver. More and more taxi drivers as well as private car owners are resorting to 80-octane (LE 0.90 per liter) after the recent price hikes of gasoline 90 and 92, where the former increased from LE 1.30 to LE 1.75 per liter and the latter from LE 1.40 per liter to LE 1.85 per liter.

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