Battling Baghdad’s petrol crisis

Filling up your car in Baghdad these days means organising a minor expedition, with the capital in the grip of a new fuel crisis.

Fuel shortages have become a fact of life for Iraqis since the US and British invasion, despite their country’s vast oil reserves.


But the situation has dramatically worsened in the past month.

The government blames the continuing violence and particularly recent attacks on major road bridges which have seriously disrupted traffic into the city.

Long queues of cars outside petrol stations, snaking round several blocks, have again become a regular sight.

BBC