The capital city of Punjab has been hit by the shortage of fuel. Fuel is available at few selected fuel pumps around the city.
Long ques were observed at the fuel pumps which are still selling. According to a rough estimate, more than half of fuel pumps throughout Lahore remained close. Fuel pump owners are putting the blame on marketing companies stating that there was already news of fuel supply thinning out but these marketing companies didn’t take any steps to curb the problem.
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Lahoris consume around 3,000,000 liters of petrol on the daily basis whereas only 1.3 to 1.4 million liters was supplied on Wednesday, 20th September 2017. Those pumps which are selling the fuel have put a cap of Rs500 for cars, and Rs100 for bikes. But considering many petrol stations are involved in scamming their customers, there is a high probability you are not getting full Rs100 worth of fuel.
This can be a major problem if not sorted in time. The livelihood of residents of Lahore depends on the supply of petrol in Lahore. The main reason this short supply is the disagreement over fuel price between government and oil distributing companies. Oil distributing companies want the government to raise fuel prices but the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce has refused to accept their demand.
The concerned organisations, private or governmental, must take this problem serious and solve it on immediate basis. The import of fuel has also dropped and will start to hurt other Pakistani metropolitans as well.
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