Zimbabwe: Fuel Prices Skyrocket As Supplies Dwindle

Diesel and petrol prices have skyrocketed to between $400 000 and $600 000 a litre from $206 000 and $280 000 at a time when supplies of the commodities have dwindled.

Despite the increase in the price, the commodity was in short supply at most service stations with some fuel attendants professing ignorance on when they will receive their next deliveries.

There were long winding queues of cars at the few filling stations that had fuel, such as Ford Garage along Chiremba Road in Chadcombe.

Commenting on the latest fuel price increases, the Petroleum Marketers Association of Zimbabwe spokesperson and BP Shell corporate affairs secretary Mr Rodrick Kusano said it was difficult to tell what had triggered the latest price increase.

“It is very difficult to tell why the price of fuel has been increased as people are getting free funds and some from the Diaspora to import fuel.

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