Click to play videoMumbai: With petrol pumps in Navi Mumbai going dry and fuel shortage leading to long queues in Nashik and Aurangabad, India is finally beginning to feel the pinch of spiraling global oil prices.
Consumers are going through a worrying time as most of the 20 petrol pumps owned by public sector oil companies have gone dry. Petrol pumps are turning consumers away and even emergency services like ambulances have been hit.
“An aged ill person had to be taken to the hospital but because there’s no petrol I am stranded,” a troubled consumer D G Shinde complains.
Petrol pump dealers say they have received little or no supply in the past few days. Despite repeated inquiries, the oil companies are yet to give them a satisfactory response…
“It's not that the government and the oil companies don’t have the stock. It is up to them to look into the matter and help change the situation,” petrol dealer S P Singh says.
And what little does manage to arrive, gets exhausted in no time as motorists and people with cans and bottles besiege the pumps.
“We are facing a tough time. People are lining up to take petrol the way they line up for water,” a petrol pump owner Mulchand Mishra says.
Aurangabad has also been witnessing scenes of people waiting in long queues at petrol pumps.
Meanwhile in Nashik, protests over fuel shortage have taken a political hue/
With world oil prices not showing signs of coming down, respite for consumers is nowhere round the corner.
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