Venezuela's deadly fuel crisis | DW REV

What a damn shame. Corrupt government makes life incredibly difficult for citizens.

Going through the same thing in Nigeria. Matter of fact we have been having gas issues for as long as I can remember. The queues fluctuate but the quality of the fuel is still poor. We have the crude yet we export it to be refined and the buy it back to consume, doesn't make any sense. Worse is we have refineries that have been left to rot. Every year money is set out to fix the refineries but 20 years later, they are still being "fixed". Recently Dangote, a wealthy business man, used his own money to build his refinery, it is working but people in the government are actively trying to sabotage it and I believe I don't have to mention why. Truly sad

As a journalist in Iran, I know that Iran isn't exporting fuel to Venezuela at this time and is also in serious need of fuel, even importing it itself! In this report, the expert claims that there has always been doubt about Iranian fuel, and it is mentioned that the number of fuel pumps in need of repair has increased over the past 5 years or so. I think we cannot blame Iranian fuel for the explosion of cars, or at the very least, there should be more convincing proof to support this claim.

what an irony. corruption ruins everything

Older model, entry-level Chevrolets don't age very well regardless. Poor woman.

Sanction working in full-scale

The content isn’t clear on where the petroleum was refined into gasoline. There are references to Iran providing gasoline and oil, the later of which is petroleum, not distillates such as gasoline.

We were here for 10 hours, we got here at 3am and left at 4pm.... uhh..?

I was born in Peru and my wife and I lived many years in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Nicaragua. We only had a vehicle in Ecuador. We didn't really need it there and didn't have one in the other three countries. She should have sold her car awhile back. But a car is a status symbol.

Beat go kinda crazy DW

Wait until China reaches Venezuela with cheap EVs. Most gas pump waiting lines will drop.

Imagine getting gasoline essentially for free (for 2cents a liter), how long would the queues be, what do you think?

Low octane fuel makes the car explode?😂

In Sri Lanka, we faced the same situation between 2021 - 2023. The present & previous corrupt & incompetent governments are totally responsible for this economic crisis. Now they stopped repayments of domestic & external debts & providing temporarily solutions. Meanwhile they managed to avoid two major elections. Both democracy & economy are under threat.

In Romania we had the same situation in the 80s.. the gasoline was rationalised.. 20 l/month per owner. The quality was poor too. On sunday there where drive restrictions.. one sunday cars with even and the next, cars with odd number on the registration plate. To mention Romania was an great oil producing and refining country

yes we had fuel problems in germany many many years ago and now in 2023 had some in the UK also

Again???

What a life! 😢

This is one reason I'm happy about switching to an electric vehicle. My house runs on electricity, my car runs on electricity, and I have a solar panel system. It doesn't matter what happen to the grid or the gasoline infrastructure, I'm disconnected. I expect similar setups to become more common all over the world in the coming decades as solar panels are just about the cheapest energy source and electric vehicles will eventually be all that's available.

Alachol, hydrogen, methane, seed oil.