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Shafaq News- Diyala<\/p>\n
Recurring gasoline shortages in Iraq’s Diyala province are
\ndisrupting the livelihoods of taxi drivers and forcing residents to change
\ntheir daily routines, as long hours spent searching for fuel reduce incomes and
\nstrain transportation.<\/p>\n
Ghassan Al-Zuhairi, a taxi driver, told Shafaq News on Sunday According to taxi driver Ayad Al-Taie, many drivers are The Head of the Energy Committee at the Diyala Provincial Additionally, Diyala’s strategic location contributes to He warned that the gasoline shortage has evolved beyond a
\nthat fuel had been readily available in previous years, but the crisis has
\nbecome a persistent problem in recent months with no government solution in
\nsight. When the gauge drops to a quarter of a tank, my entire day changes, he
\nsaid. “Instead of thinking about work, I start calling colleagues and
\nchecking WhatsApp groups to find<\/a> out which station has gasoline. Sometimes I
\nvisit several stations and still return without filling the tank.”<\/p>\n
\nconsidering raising fares to offset the time and costs associated with the shortage<\/a>.
\n“When you lose hours of your day moving between gas stations, it’s only
\nnatural to try to recover part of that loss.”<\/p>\n
\nCouncil, Faris Muzahim, attributed the deficiency to inadequate allocations<\/a>, as
\nthe province receives around 1.1 million liters of gasoline per day, while its
\ndaily demand reaches 1.5 million liters. The provincial council has repeatedly
\nasked the Oil Ministry to increase Diyala’s allocation.<\/p>\n
\nhigher fuel consumption because it serves as a transit route linking Baghdad
\nwith the Kurdistan Region and is crossed by large numbers of travelers and
\npilgrims arriving from Iran on their way to Iraq’s holy shrines.<\/p>\n
\nservice problem into an economic challenge affecting market activity and
\nhousehold incomes, calling for higher fuel allocations, more efficient
\ndistribution, strategic reserves, and tighter oversight to prevent black market<\/a>
\nsales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-05T14:59:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Diyala Recurring gasoline shortages in Iraq’s Diyala province…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,18493,36774,57102,6388,94,57103],"class_list":["post-191300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-diyala","tag-fuel-shortage","tag-fuel-shortage-disrupts-transport-in-iraqs-diyala","tag-gasoline","tag-iraq","tag-taxi-drivers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116868097438283817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}