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Asian country rations fuel<\/a><\/h3>\n
Sri Lanka\u2019s government has been under fire over shortages in food, fuel, and other essential goods<\/div>\n
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Auto rickshaw drivers queue up to buy petrol near a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 13, 2022 \u00a9 AP \/ Eranga Jayawardena<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sri Lanka\u2019s state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on Friday started rationing the amount of fuel available at pumps. The bankrupt country defaulted on its foreign debt payments this week, and food and energy shortages have triggered mass protests against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

Motorists in cars, vans, and SUVs will be limited to 19.5 liters of fuel per purchase, while motorcyclists will be restricted to four, French state-media AFP reported. Motorists will also be banned from filling fuel cans.<\/p>\n

The CPC controls around two thirds of Sri Lanka\u2019s fuel market, with Lanka IOC \u2013 a local subsidiary of the Indian Oil Corporation \u2013 controlling the rest. Government officials told AFP that Lanka IOC would likely follow suit and introduce rationing at its own stations in the near future.<\/p>\n

Filling stations across the country are running out of fuel, while cooking gas is also in short supply, with Litro Gas \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s main distributor \u2013 saying it won\u2019t have any available until Monday. Food has reportedly increased fourfold in price, and\u00a0long queues<\/a>\u00a0for staples like rice, milk powder, and medicine have been reported.<\/p>\n

The entire cabinet of Sri Lanka resigned earlier this month, leaving President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his older brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, to form a new government. Protesters, however, have continued to gather in the capital of Colombo, blaming the president for their economic misfortune.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s financial and humanitarian crisis was in part accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, as the island nation has lost revenue generated by tourism…<\/p>\n

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Asian country rations fuel Sri Lanka\u2019s government has been under fire over shortages in food, fuel, and other essential goods Auto rickshaw drivers queue up to buy petrol near a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 13, 2022 \u00a9 AP \/ Eranga Jayawardena Sri Lanka\u2019s state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on Friday started rationing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[4052,15792,13863,4053,2207,3237],"class_list":["post-62446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-food-shortages","tag-fuel-shortages","tag-rationing","tag-shortages","tag-sri-lanka","tag-supply-chains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62447,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62446\/revisions\/62447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}