Sri Lanka's Fuel Crisis Echoes 2022 Pain
Sri Lanka's fuel rationing & price hikes feel eerily familiar. Due to the Iran war disrupting Hormuz Strait oil flow, they're rationing fuel via QR codes (tuk-tuks: 20L/week, cars: 25L) and prices jumped 33%. This impacts everything - experts warn food prices could rise 15% too. The gov is subsidizing fuel to avoid economic collapse, but still loses $63m monthly. They're trying solutions like no-work Wednesdays & negotiating Russian fuel, but storage is limited (only 1 month's reserves). A tuk-tuk driver summed it up: in 2022 they had fuel ships but no money; now they have money but no ships.
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