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Ireland: Long Queues at Petrol Stations Across Country as Fuel Protests Continue

Fuel shortages spread across parts of Ireland on Thursday, April 9, as nationwide protests entered their third day, blocking access to key supply terminals including the country's only oil refinery. Long queues formed at filling stations across multiple regions, with some running out of petrol and diesel entirely. Some stations began limiting purchases as panic buying compounded the crisis triggered by rising fuel costs.

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A man sits next to stacked fuel containers arranged along a roadside in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A man prepares to pour fuel from a fuel container into a vehicle along a roadside in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

Fuel containers are stacked outside a roadside stall in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A man pours fuel from a fuel container into a vehicle along a roadside in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A man stands next to fuel containers arranged along a roadside in Chabahar, Iran on December 17, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A fuel container is attached to a car as a boy stands near stacked fuel containers in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A man crouches beside fuel containers while refueling a car outside a roadside stall in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A young man stands beside fuel containers outside a roadside stall in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A young man stands beside fuel containers outside a roadside stall in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A young man sits on a chair beside stacked fuel containers along a roadside in Chabahar, Iran on December 17, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

A boy stands beside plastic containers filled with fuel on a street in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fuel Crisis in Chabahar - Iraq

Plastic jerrycans filled with fuel are stacked along a roadside in Chabahar, Iran on December 19, 2025. In southeastern regions such as Sistan-Baluchestan province, residents often rely on storing fuel in containers when access to filling stations is limited. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck.

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Europe faces winter energy crunch, challenges may last for years

STORY: Europe faces winter energy crunch, challenges may last for years DATELINE: Nov. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): HE FEI, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of gas stations and stoves STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): HE FEI, Xinhua correspondent "As winter approaches, European countries have been taking steps to soften the blow from an insufficient supply of Russian natural gas to the continent. Analysts say this year's energy crunch may have impacts lasting for years. When gas supplies from Russia started to dwindle earlier this year, European countries set a goal of filling natural gas storage facilities to at least 80 percent of capacity by Nov. 1. Latest data show countries have surpassed that level, topping 90 percent in early October and adding to that since then. But experts say that while high storage levels may help avoid rolling blackouts and rationing as some had feared, that does not mean the biggest obstacles have been surpassed." Count

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Fuel shortage leads to long queues in Yemeni capital's streets

STORY: Fuel shortage leads to long queues in Yemeni capital's streets DATELINE: Sept. 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: Sanaa CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of cars lining up at an oil station. 2. various of a worker filling a car with petroleum. 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): NASHWAN SAQEER, Local resident 4. various of a worker filling a car with petroleum. 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): RAMZI YAHYA, Manager of the oil station 6. various of a worker filling a car with petroleum. 7. various of the oil station STORYLINE: Car owners in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, wait in long queues on the city's streets to get their cars refilled because of a shortage in fuel. The Houthi group, which controls the capital since 2014 after ousting the internationally-recognized government, said earlier this month that the Saudi-led coalition has blocked nine fuel ships that were trying to reach Houthi-controlled ports. The shortage in fuel has forced the Houthi-controlled Yemen Oil Company to cut the supply to oil stations

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FUEL CRISIS-TOKENS

(220627) -- COLOMBO, June 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A military personnel issues tokens for consumers who queue up at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 27, 2022. Fuel filling stations across the country started issuing tokens for consumers from Monday as only limited stocks of fuel were available. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FUEL CRISIS-TOKENS

(220627) -- COLOMBO, June 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A military personnel issues tokens for consumers who queue up at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 27, 2022. Fuel filling stations across the country started issuing tokens for consumers from Monday as only limited stocks of fuel were available. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FUEL CRISIS-TOKENS

(220627) -- COLOMBO, June 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Military personnel issue tokens for a consumer who queues up at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 27, 2022. Fuel filling stations across the country started issuing tokens for consumers from Monday as only limited stocks of fuel were available. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck. (Kyodo)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle, car, vehicle, fuel tank, driver

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle, car, vehicle, fuel tank

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle, car, vehicle

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle, car, vehicle

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle, car, vehicle, driver, fuel tank

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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filling station, gas station, fuel, fueling nozzle, car, vehicle, fuel tank

A part of a filling station is seen in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, on Janury 31, 2019. Fuel prices at the Czech Republic's filling stations keep decreasing, with the average per litre price of Natural 95 bestselling petrol dropping by 17 hellers to Kc30.67 and the price of diesel oil falling by 15 hellers to Kc31.11 over the past week, CCS company said. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)