{"id":493287,"date":"2022-05-24T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T06:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493287"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T06:04:30","slug":"sri-lankans-wait-in-queues-for-gas-as-government-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lankans-wait-in-queues-for-gas-as-government-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankans wait in queues for gas as government struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long queues snaked around gas stations in Sri Lanka\u2019s commercial capital and its outskirts on Monday even though the island nation\u2019s government was scrambling to deliver fuel supplies and douse any unrest as it battles a devastating economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p> Kanchana Wijesekera, Sri Lanka\u2019s minister for power and energy, said supplies of 95-octane petrol, mostly used in cars, had been received and were being distributed across the country of 22 million people that has been struggling with fuel shortages for months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the 2 cargo vessels unloaded, petrol stocks will be available for the next 6 weeks comfortably,\u201d Wijesekera said in a tweet. Another 40,000 metric tonnes of petrol supplied by India had also reached Sri Lanka on Monday, the Indian High Commission said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long queues snaked around gas stations in Sri Lanka\u2019s commercial capital and its outskirts on Monday even though the island nation\u2019s government was scrambling to deliver fuel supplies and douse any unrest as it battles a devastating economic crisis. Kanchana Wijesekera, Sri Lanka\u2019s minister for power and energy, said supplies of 95-octane petrol, mostly used in cars, had been received and were being distributed across the country of 22 million people that has been struggling with fuel shortages for months. \u201cWith the 2 cargo vessels unloaded, petrol stocks will be available for the next 6 weeks comfortably,\u201d Wijesekera said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}