A Houthi blockade exacerbates the oil derivatives crisis in Sanaa
English - Tuesday 01 February 2022 الساعة 10:32 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen:
The Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - refuses to bring in dozens of trucks for transporting oil derivatives from the liberated governorates to its areas of control, to exacerbate the crisis and raise the price of a 20-liter tank of gasoline to more than 25 thousand riyals on the black market run by the group.
Sana'a and its neighboring governorates are witnessing for the second month in a row a stifling crisis in gasoline, diesel and household gas, and an increase in transportation prices, electricity bills and foodstuffs.
The representative in the Sana'a Parliament, Abdo Bishr, accused the officials of the oil company in Sana'a of creating crises and besieging the Yemeni people, noting that "the locomotives are waiting for permission to enter and sell to citizens."
He demanded that traders be allowed to import fuels, and that the import of these materials should not be monopolized by two traders.
Parliamentarian Abdo Bishr confirmed the readiness of a number of traders to deliver derivatives to Sanaa and the rest of the governorates at very low prices, "but the oil and gas companies and those behind them prevent the entry of these materials," asking: "Do they realize that their aggression will not go unpunished?"
The owners of stations in Sanaa accuse the Houthi militia of fabricating crises of oil derivatives, and of causing a doubling of burdens on citizens in order to achieve financial profits.
A specialized parliamentary committee had noticed that the oil company in Sana’a is closing some stations and there are still available quantities of petroleum products in them, in light of the continuous queues of citizens’ cars in front of these stations, which means that the oil company is involved in fabricating crises of oil derivatives in Sana’a and the neighboring governorates.
The Houthi militia receives oil subsidies from Tehran, which it sells to citizens at prices three times higher than its prices in the global market, and imposed successive price doses on the prices of these materials, reaching three times their price in 2014.
