Tämä polttoainepula eräässä maailman suurimmassa öljyntuottajamaassa näyttää kehittyvän varsin mainioon suuntaan ja nopeasti. Maan maatalousministeri varoittaa jo syksyn sadonkorjuun ja syyskylvöjen keskeytyvän. Kuulemma polttoaineiden ulkomaanvienti pitäisi keskeyttää. Tämähän vaikuttaa oikein herkulliselta kehitykseltä ajatellen tulevia presidentinvaaleja. Pumppuhintojen nousu, ruoan hinnan nousu ja nälkä ovat takuuvarmoja vaalimainoshittejä putinille.
"MOSCOW, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Russian Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said on Wednesday that fuel shortages threaten to disrupt autumn harvesting and sowing and urged a suspension of petroleum product exports, Interfax news agency reported.
Russia, one of the world’s biggest oil producers, has faced shortages of fuel crucial for gathering the harvest in some parts of its southern breadbasket and the situation may get worse in coming months, according to market sources.
Traders said the fuel market has been hit by a combination of factors including maintenance at oil refineries, bottlenecks on railways and the weakness of the rouble, which incentivises fuel exports.
Russia has tried to tackle diesel and gasoline shortages over recent months, contemplating export curbs as a last-ditch attempt to prevent a serious fuel crisis that could be awkward for the Kremlin as a presidential election looms in March.
“We already have problems with the availability (of fuel). We will now stop harvesting, and we will not sow winter crops. It will be a disaster,” he was quoted as telling the joint session of parliament’s monitoring and agriculture committees."
Russian Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said on Wednesday that fuel shortages threaten to disrupt autumn harvesting and sowing and urged a suspension of petroleum product exports, Interfax news agency reported.
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