gasoline shortage

Cameroon: Sans électricité , ni poste de santé : Guia manque de tout

Guia, lack of everything. Without electricity, no real health post. Despite its strategic location and extent of its weekly market, located near the town of Podor is slow to enter into modernity.

Fiji: Power under threat

THE Fiji Electricity Authority has warned of power shedding or rotating blackouts if the dry spell continues.

FEA chief executive officer Hasmukh Patel said rainfall at Monasavu in September had been low but they were hopeful that the rainfall would pick up as the country approached the wet and cyclone season.

In a presentation to FEA's corporate customers, Mr Patel said if there was no further water inflows to Monasavu this month, the dam level could reach the minimum safe operating level by the end of the month.

India: Power shortage haunts India as nuclear deal cleared

Power outages that stretch hours are a regular event in Shaila Kapoor's life in a smart suburb of energy-hungry India's national capital.

"It's a nightmare," said Kapoor, a teacher. "We've power back-up (from a battery) but it doesn't last long and then we either literally drip from the heat or drive to a mall."

India's massive electricity crunch is a key reason why the government said it was determined to go ahead with a controversial civilian nuclear technology pact with Washington that was cleared by the US Congress and Senate this week.

Kazakhstan: Water, Electricity Shortages Threaten Kazakhstan's Commercial Capital

Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, may face water and electricity shortages in the coming winter because of a sharp drop of water level in the Ili river, said a report in the Megapolis newspaper. The river, which originates in western China and ensures the work of the Almaty region's main power station, is gone so shallow that is currently passable on foot, the report carried on 29 September said. The water level has fallen because of the last severely cold winter and this year's dry summer, it said. The following is the text of the report by Irina Chernyshova entitled "Without electricity and water"; subheadings inserted editorially:

Saint Kitts and Nevis: Weeks of load shedding ahead…public urged to be patient

DURING a whirlwind visit to the Needsmust Power Station this morning (Oct. 3) the Prime Minister, Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, and gathered media were informed that more load shedding is expected as the facility will be operating at about sixty percent capacity until repairs on the damaged engines are completed.

USA (Tennessee): Gasoline shortage persists in Southeast

Three weeks after hurricanes blew out the power to Gulf Coast refineries, gasoline still is in short supply in Knoxville and many Southeast cities, forcing one Knoxville company to advise its Atlanta office staff to work from home to keep from driving on empty.

Knoxville gas retailers and wholesalers have received intermittent shipments of gas and diesel through the Colonial and Plantation pipelines serving the area, but many locations continue to be low or completely out of some or all grades. Local gas wholesalers and retailers expect gas supplies to return to normal by the end of October.

Bolivia: Falta diésel y gasolina en cuatro departamentos

Despite the fact that roads are free of protest blockages, in Santa Cruz, Tarija and Beni there is an upsurge in shortages of diesel, petrol and gas for domestic use.

Yesterday there were long lines of high-tonnage trucks, taxis, mototaxis, buses, tractors and ordinary citizens loaded with drums on and different suppliers waiting to get some fuel.

Dominican Republic: Dominicans complain of blackouts , despite higher energy output

Electricity generation increased 123 megawatts in the last few hours but resident in different sectors of Santo Domingo, Santiago, Barahona and other cities complain of rolling blackouts as long as six hours.

Some residents also say power service is suspensed up to three times per day, each longer than three hours, though users pay the monthly electric bill. They affirm that from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. the blackouts are most frequent, without an explanation from the distribuitor company Ede-Este.

India: Unscheduled power cuts in Karnataka

The State Government has decided to impose unscheduled power load-shedding ranging from four to five hours a day in Bangalore and other parts of the State.

Addressing journalists, Energy Minister K.S. Eshwarappa on Tuesday said the demand for power has increased to 116 million units a day owing to deficit rainfall in September. Unscheduled power cuts would be resorted owing to deficit in hydel power generation and erratic monsoon.

Pakistan: KESC - a tale of constant failure

Despite the increase in demand from the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) to 2,630MW electricity per day in the last eight years, the administration of the power company has not taken any measures to enhance its power generation capacity to end load shedding.

USA (Georgia): Georgia Requests Oil Released From U.S. Reserve to Ease Gasoline Shortage

The Bush administration is ``reviewing'' a request by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to release oil from the strategic reserve to help ease gasoline supply problems in the Southeast.

Perdue, a Republican, issued a press release two days ago saying he had requested President Bush direct the Energy Department to release ``a significant amount of crude'' from the reserve.

USA (Southeast): Frustration in the South as a Gasoline Shortage Drags On

As a gasoline shortage in the South drags through its second week, drivers have gone from being mildly annoyed to deeply frustrated, with lines hours long at service stations in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Southern drivers could continue to face long lines, high prices and widespread station closings until mid-October, the AAA automobile club said Monday, although the problem may begin to improve this week.