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Petrol, diesel shortage crippling economy of Myanmar’s largest cities 

As fuel oil becomes scarcer, civilians whose livelihoods have been impacted are sceptical that the junta’s plan to inject US $100 million into struggling petrol and diesel import businesses will have a lasting effect

Long queues of cars, trucks, and even tractors brought traffic to a slow crawl on some of Yangon’s and Naypyitaw’s busiest roads, locals said on Friday, as drivers waited to receive their rationed amounts of petrol and diesel. 

Prices for fuel have risen precipitously even as petrol stations have set limits on the amounts sold to each customer at each filling, worth 30,000 kyat (US $9.20) per car and 6,000 kyat (US $1.90) per motorbike, the cities’ residents said. 

“I only got the 6,000-kyat amount, which is less than two litres. With that amount, I don’t even know if I can get by,” said a motorbike-trishaw driver in Yangon, adding that he waited through the night without sleeping only to get less than two litres in the end. 

Fuel prices have increased to 3,045 kyat (US. . .

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