Scarcity of fuel continues in many cities
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Fuel crisis is back, again, during these days in the central Wilayas of the country, after it moved from the eastern and western border states, where citizen is unable of knowing the reasons, as gasoline stations notice long queues of vehicles, and sometimes tubes of supplying gasoline are lifted expressing the lack of fuel or when it completely ends, causing problems in the movement of citizens, especially the owners of buses who fear a repeated of stop of activity.
From Blida to Tipaza, reaching the capital, fuel stations noticed since days ago a fluctuation in fuel supply before the queues of vehicles, especially those that are supplied with diesel, considering it will notice larger scarcity in the coming days, and the owners of utilitarian vehicles, trucks and even buses will suffer in their daily travels and usual activity, where some owners of the transportation lines between Blida, Tipaza and Algiers, expressed anger over the renewed problem in less than two months after the previous crisis over two weeks, which led to stopping the activity of some buses.
At the time the scarcity has forced some of them to stop in the middle of roads and evacuate passengers through appealing to another bus, while others were forced to work in alternate and only use one trip or cancel it, leaving a real transport crisis that may be repeated this time.
For his part, Zaki Hariz, the Head of the Algerian Federation of Consumers, said in a statement to Echorouk, that the crisis was caused by the problem of planning that did not take into account the increase in the number of cars, that are taking place in the national fold compared to the survival of petroleum refineries intact, without thinking in profitable projects, that can absorb the huge number of the unemployed, to stay out of the dependency to other countries, that haunts Algeria in the supply of diesel, in spite of the possibilities that Algeria has, particularly the oil which needs the establishment of stores, especially in the distant States, “so that we are not held hostages to the ships and bad weather.”