The petrol crisis has created lines long enough to block roads and stoked tempers across Egypt as drivers wait for fuel for their vehicles. One fuel station owner said he sold the 35,000 liters of fuel that he set aside for today in five hours. According to the owner, buyers are reselling fuel on the black market. Vehicles waiting for petrol at fuel stations in Dakahlia governorate blocked the Mansoura-Damietta route for two hours Thursday, as the lack of Petrol 80 and 90 continued. Tensions increased at fuel stations. One driver accused the fuel station owners of fraud, where they mixed Petrol 90 with Petrol 80. In the Eastern Nile Delta town of Mit Ghamr, a truck driver attacked a fuel station employee after he refused to let the driver move to the front of the line. In Aga, the police station reported a clash between TokTok drivers that resulted in three injuries. “We call on the Ministry of Supply to increase the governorate's share of petrol,” said Mohamed Noaman, A Principal in the Directorate of Supply.
