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By Brian Padden
Irbil, Iraq
22 August 2006
 
watch Gasoline report


The Iraqi economy is suffering from a shrinking supply of subsidized fuel and the rising price of fuel that is readily available on the black market.  



A government-subsidized gasoline station has a long line of taxis and private vehicles  
  
At official fueling stations in Irbil, Iraq, gasoline is sold for less than 25 cents a liter.  The government sets the price and subsidizes the costs. But the supply of this cheap fuel is decreasing. Stations are being forced to ration 1 fuel.   There is plenty of gasoline to be found on the streets in the unregulated black market. That gasoline currently costs one dollar a liter.  


Taxi driver Hamza Karem says the gas shortage at official stations and the rising prices on the black market are very much related. "I'm wondering where they get the fuel on the streets.  Sure, they bring it from the official station because they can sell it for more."


 
Unofficial "gas stations" have gasoline available, but at incresingly higher prices
  
Abdullah Malah runs this black market supply depot 2. He admits he has purchased fuel from refineries 3 in Iraq that was intended for official fueling stations.  "I paid 300 Iraqi dinar for one liter when the official price was 250 dinar.  I paid for it and transported it back myself."


Some economists 4 say the growing corruption 5 of the fuel subsidy 6 program is just one reason why the government should let market forces determine the price of gasoline.  Salahaddin University economics professor Mohammed Barwary says the fuel subsidy program is also costing the Iraqi government billions of dollars.


 
Mohammed Barwary
  
"For each liter of gasoline, the government pays $1.50 in subsidy. If we calculate 10 million liters multiplied by 1.5, it will be $15 million just for the Kurdistan Region. If we collected for all of Iraq it will be two to three billion dollars.   We could use this money for development and other programs."


Professor Barwary says, over time, the subsidies 7 must be abolished. He believes the price of fuel must go up so that the energy industry can increase supply by building more refineries and fueling stations to meet demand. 



n.定量(pl.)给养,口粮;vt.定量供应
  • The country cut the bread ration last year.那个国家去年削减面包配给量。
  • We have to ration the water.我们必须限量用水。
n.仓库,储藏处;公共汽车站;火车站
  • The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
  • They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。
精炼厂( refinery的名词复数 )
  • The efforts on closedown and suspension of small sugar refineries, small saccharin refineries and small paper mills are also being carried out in steps. 关停小糖厂、小糖精厂、小造纸厂的工作也已逐步展开。
  • Hence the sitting of refineries is at a distance from population centres. 所以,炼油厂的厂址总在远离人口集中的地方。
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
n.补助金,津贴
  • The university will receive a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence.那个大学将得到一笔人工智能研究的补助费。
  • The living subsidy for senior expert's family is included in the remuneration.报酬已包含高级专家家人的生活补贴。
n.补贴,津贴,补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )
  • European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
  • Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
al-amarah
antilabour
Araka
asamblea
autosuggestive
bang head against
Belg
blade with stepped root
bottom inner casing
bronnert process
buttillaries
calsey
Christia obcordata
coincidence factor
cone-apex angle
control of nematode
crude-copper
crustal disturbance
cultivated grassland
curry muncher
cyberbanks
digitalia
discharage
dredging equipment
drying hopper
dzhou
earthing installation
eclipse end
ecocritical
electronic punch
Eugaimardia
film scribing
fornicate
frances elizabeth caroline willards
Fugo
Garnet-jade
gear-stocking cutter
grade compensation
guttae argenti nitratis
Honeywell file access system
Hubble Atlas
hyalitis punctata
improper installation
infrared-guided missile
inter specified index
islet cell transplantation
Jackson's candle turbidimeter
Jerichoite
kidney tubules
Kwania, L.
leached
low-ceilinged
machinery classification certificate
make perfect
mononuclear leukocyte
moving coordinate
mucoraceaes
oil-gas anticlinal deposit
oner
oriente
output register empty
parlier
parroket, parroquet
periodograms
perturbant
pig-run
plasma lemma(seifriz 1928)'plasma membrane
polar code
polyvinyl acetate resin adhesive
Primula epilithica
pseudoglaucoma
psoralea esculentas
pyrolytic gas chromatography
relman
Rhododendron pemakoense
rough-terrain truck
SAP97
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
schwedler
seeming
show ankle
sialis lutarias
Staroye Maksimkino
str/n mouse
submitting entity
subroutine analyzer
supporting block for location
swing link guide
thermal chemical vapor deposition
thermocople junction
three-point attitude
threw her weight around
transposition type
triophosphoramide
turbocompressors
utility tape processor
vestigital sideband
water proofing of basement
wavelength resolution
way-going crop
wheat consumption
yellow tail