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Article: Feature: Zimbabwe in fuel crisis
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 7, 2005
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Feature: Zimbabwe in fuel crisis
By Gao Shixing
HARARE, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The past week has seen tablets of "no
fuel" at most petrol filling stations in Zimbabwean capital Harare,
and there was virtually no petrol at service stations outside the
capital.
Zimbabwe is now facing a serious fuel crisis due to shortage of
foreign currency and low prices of petrol.
On Friday afternoon it was said that there was fuel at a petrol
filling station at Fourth Street, where cars were immediately seen
queuing for this precious liquid, which has increasingly become
scarce.
In a few minutes, a fuel delivery tanker arrived. It off-loaded
about 20,000 liters of fuel and vehicles began to assemble in a ...