Riverbend: Kerosene Shortages worse than Gulf War 1

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Riverbend, a female Iraqi blogger in Bahgdad, states:

The electricity situation isn't very much better. We're getting two hours of electricity (almost continuous) and then eight hours of no electricity (continuous). We still can't get the generators going for very long because of the fuel shortage. Kerosene is really becoming a problem now. I guess we weren't taking it very seriously at first because, it really is probably the first time Iraq has seen a kerosene shortage and it is still difficult to believe. They say in 1991 when there was a gasoline shortage which lasted for the duration of the war and some time after, kerosene was always plentiful. This isn't the situation now. We're buying it for obscene prices and it's really only useful for the lamps and the heaters.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com


Even during the gasoline shortages of Gulf War 1, Iraqi's never had a kerosene shortage.