(Eqtsad)- The fuel crisis has been increased in the northeastern Hasaka province as the powerful PYD militia controls most of the petrol stations.
Residents in Hasaka said that long queues of people waiting in front of petrol stations with their containers to receive 30 litres, the allowed amount for each family, which is sold for 43 Syrian pounds per a litre instead of 40 litres, the official price.
Moreover, according to sources, Self Administration has only distributed 100 litres of heating fuel to each family, which is half the allocated amount of 200 litres.
The headquarter of Energy Authority of PYD’s Self Administration in Rmilan city had two weeks ago issued an order preventing trading fuel outside petrol stations owned by SADKOB, al-Jazeera Fuels, whose main duties are distributing fuel to stations and receive it from primary petrol refinery.
The fuel Authority has raised prices from SYP35 to SYP40 for diesel, while benzene from SYP50 to SYP75, justifying that by the wide area it covers after controlling Shadadi and Menbej cities, beside opening roads to Efrin and Aleppo countryside which increased demand on fuel.
Activist Mohammed al-Ahmad reported that no amount of benzene is available in petrol stations in villages of Qahtaniyah and Tal Hamis southern of Qamishli, leading to soaring its prices to SYP150, while it is sold for SYP100 is Qamishli, which is SYP25 over the official prices.
Al-Ahmad mentioned that amount reaching to villages of diesel is too little, as some times only 400 litres are delivered to some villages, which is only enough to cover needs of one house that estimated by 300 litres, which raise prices of diesel to SYP75.
Bad effects of shortage of fuel reflected on farming and agriculture as well, as high prices and lack of fuel had disabled many water pumps, which could affect the wheat harvest if the situation continued for the coming months, as the need for irrigation would be more necessary.
Abo Hayel, a farmer explained that when the Kurdish Self Administration prevented primary refineries from selling fuel directly to farmers caused that current crisis and soaring prices of fuel.
SADKOB’s fuel tanks distributes fuel to PYD-controlled petrol petrol stations, but the amount of fuel is not enough to cover people’s needs, besides prioritising relatives when distributing and selling fuel.
Despite the soar prices people are forced to prioritise buying fuel over other needs in the cold weather, especially with long hours of electricity cut-off, which had ruled out the use of eletricity heaters.
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