days of waiting at the gas station for a little gasoline sold for up to eight euros per liter

More than a year after the double explosion in the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020, which devastated part of the city and left more than 200 dead as well as thousands of wounded, Lebanon is getting closer every day. more chaos. And now he is facing a shortage of gasoline. Sally’s gas station is dry: “Ah, here is the truck. A little hope in all this misery”, she said with a smile to the magazine “1:15 pm on Sunday” (replay).

“We have been waiting for five days … We will try to open two days for two to three hours a day because we need to work in order to be able to finish the line of customers”, explains the young woman while the station calls each customer who has left his phone number behind the windshield of his parked car for days.

300 millions! All this for a single delivery “

Sally wants to show what the Lebanese pounds cost for just one delivery of gasoline from this tanker. In a sports bag, a large number of large wads of banknotes neatly arranged. Once out, they cover almost the entire table: “There are 300 million! That’s a lot, it’s huge … All for one delivery.”

Before the crisis that hit the country, only one wad of banknotes was needed for this delivery which filled the tanks of Sally’s gas station a little: “This is the very proof of the economic crisis. It is inflation!” With the collapse of the Lebanese pound, the price of gasoline peaks at the pump, the equivalent of eight euros per liter …

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