"NO PETROL, NO WORK": Sudden Gasoline Shortage Paralyses Taxi Drivers Across Syria's Coastal Cities

By Times Now World

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A sudden, severe gasoline crisis has paralyzed public transit networks and triggered massive vehicle queues across Syria’s coastal tourist province of Latakia and several surrounding governorates, marking one of the most acute fuel bottlenecks since the transitional government assumed power. Striking without prior warning, the acute petroleum product deficit forced nearly all retail filling stations across the coastal commercial hub to shut down completely, stranding public bus networks and leaving local taxi drivers facing heavy financial hardships due to a total halt in their daily operations. While the Energy Ministry under Syria's transitional government, led by interim authority structures established after the fall of the Assad regime, rushed to stabilize reserves by dispatching 7.32 million liters of fuel from central distribution nodes in Homs and Baniyas, local monitors confirm that lines stretch out for kilometers as anxious residents monitor unverified social media bulletins

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