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Offline TomSea

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Cubans forced to wait hours in gas lines as fuel shortage bites
« on: September 20, 2019, 03:16:55 pm »
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Cubans forced to wait hours in gas lines as fuel shortage bites
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A fuel shortage blamed on the Trump Administration has turned filling a tank in Cuba into an ordeal even for a country used to waiting in lines.

Around Havana, drivers spend days hunting desperately for gas, calling friends and updating online chat groups with sightings of diesel, regular and higher-octane fuel at gas stations. Lines this week have come to stretch for blocks with waits up to five hours long. Drivers park and shut off their cars to wait in the shade and chat with friends as cars crawl past pumps far in the distance.

Increasingly, gas stations are running out with people still waiting in line. Drivers have started lining up outside empty gas stations in the hope that a truck from the state-run fuel monopoly will come by to fill its pumps.


Vehicles wait in a line to fill their gas tanks, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. A fuel shortage blamed on the Trump Administration has turned filling a tank in Cuba into an ordeal even for a country used to waiting in lines. (AP)

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/cubans-wait-gas-lines-fuel-shortage

There are those old cars but most of those look European? They are known for having old cars down there with the embargo and blockade imposed.

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Re: Cubans forced to wait hours in gas lines as fuel shortage bites
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2019, 03:32:23 pm »
More Russian and newer Chinese.  Lots of Ladas over there.

https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-cubas-car-scene-looks-like-in-2017-1791963244
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Re: Cubans forced to wait hours in gas lines as fuel shortage bites
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2019, 07:31:19 pm »
So Venezuela can't deliver oil to Cuba? Blame Venezuelan mismanglement that destroyed their oil industry, not the US.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Cubans forced to wait hours in gas lines as fuel shortage bites
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2019, 07:41:13 pm »
Ain't socialism great.
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Re: Cubans forced to wait hours in gas lines as fuel shortage bites
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2019, 07:46:22 pm »
Feel the Bern!