Venezuela's deadly fuel crisis | DW REV 

What a damn shame. Corrupt government makes life incredibly difficult for citizens.

Going through the same thing in Nigeria. Matter of fact we have been having gas issues for as long as I can remember. The queues fluctuate but the quality of the fuel is still poor. We have the crude yet we export it to be refined and the buy it back to consume, doesn't make any sense. Worse is we have refineries that have been left to rot. Every year money is set out to fix the refineries but 20 years later, they are still being "fixed". Recently Dangote, a wealthy business man, used his own money to build his refinery, it is working but people in the government are actively trying to sabotage it and I believe I don't have to mention why. Truly sad

what an irony. corruption ruins everything

Older model, entry-level Chevrolets don't age very well regardless. Poor woman.

As a journalist in Iran, I know that Iran isn't exporting fuel to Venezuela at this time and is also in serious need of fuel, even importing it itself! In this report, the expert claims that there has always been doubt about Iranian fuel, and it is mentioned that the number of fuel pumps in need of repair has increased over the past 5 years or so. I think we cannot blame Iranian fuel for the explosion of cars, or at the very least, there should be more convincing proof to support this claim.

Wait until China reaches Venezuela with cheap EVs. Most gas pump waiting lines will drop.

Low octane fuel makes the car explode?😂

In Romania we had the same situation in the 80s.. the gasoline was rationalised.. 20 l/month per owner. The quality was poor too. On sunday there where drive restrictions.. one sunday cars with even and the next, cars with odd number on the registration plate. To mention Romania was an great oil producing and refining country

Imagine getting gasoline essentially for free (for 2cents a liter), how long would the queues be, what do you think?

This is what happens when you don’t fight back.

The content isn’t clear on where the petroleum was refined into gasoline. There are references to Iran providing gasoline and oil, the later of which is petroleum, not distillates such as gasoline.

Those plugs looked terrible

I was born in Peru and my wife and I lived many years in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Nicaragua. We only had a vehicle in Ecuador. We didn't really need it there and didn't have one in the other three countries. She should have sold her car awhile back. But a car is a status symbol.

Failure of government. Even in our country, India, fuel is abundantly available despite no oil reserve. Price is approximate $ 1.20

Yes, we had 2 fuel shortages in Brazil that I can remember. The first was the 70's oil crisis, of course. Ethanol alcohol was developed from sugar cane as an alternate fuel (cars weren't bi-fuel then, so you either had an "alcohol" car or a gasoline one). But they sucked. Later in the 80's hyperinflation days, there was another shortage of ethanol this time due to prices being fixed and sugar cane farmers causing market shortages, so more methanol was allowed in the mix. It was highly poisonous even if you happened to smell it and could also lead to blidness. This shortage was short and the "methanol" days were over in a couple of months, IIRC. We still have ethanol around and bi-fuel cars that can handle any mix of both fuels efficiently. Ethanol is cheaper, but less efficient. Sometimes gasoline is a better bang for your buck, sometimes it's not. There are even apps and calculators for that nowadays.

I’m from Sri Lanka . We also faced to a fuel shortage in the country due to bankruptcy due to political crisis and Terror attack

You can only blame the Government.

This is one reason I'm happy about switching to an electric vehicle. My house runs on electricity, my car runs on electricity, and I have a solar panel system. It doesn't matter what happen to the grid or the gasoline infrastructure, I'm disconnected. I expect similar setups to become more common all over the world in the coming decades as solar panels are just about the cheapest energy source and electric vehicles will eventually be all that's available.

Beat go kinda crazy DW

this can be a place where Chinese EVs can play a big role in offering people another option for mobility

We were here for 10 hours, we got here at 3am and left at 4pm.... uhh..?

Authoritarian incompetence

I’ll never forget the day I was driving a ATV through the back roads of Curaçao 🇨🇼 when all of a sudden there was a military encampment like you see in movies. It scared the s*** out of me.. one of the people riding with me lived on the island and was also freaked out. He said, shady shi** been going on with Venezuela 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sanction working in full-scale

In Sri Lanka, we faced the same situation between 2021 - 2023. The present & previous corrupt & incompetent governments are totally responsible for this economic crisis. Now they stopped repayments of domestic & external debts & providing temporarily solutions. Meanwhile they managed to avoid two major elections. Both democracy & economy are under threat.

Come on! "changing the hole fuel system" Please educate yourselves, that´s just a part of the fuel system @3:55

Yk I’m blessed to be in America problems like this doesn’t exist unless you’re the poorest of the poor

How can we contact the lady to help her fix her car?

no sense in being optimistic

yes we had fuel problems in germany many many years ago and now in 2023 had some in the UK also

Really sad to see in the country with over 300 billion barrels proven reserves of oil...and export of crude oil is increasing, last month (august 2024) it was at its highest since the US oil embargos started in 2018 with 885,000 barrels per day... most (over 500kbpd) goes to china, than to the US over 200kbpd and 90kbpd from Repsol some to the US but most of that to Spain but still very low numbers compared to the decades before the oil embargo....

one of the weathiest nations in reserves and minerals .whats wrong with the gouverments policies?

Alachol, hydrogen, methane, seed oil.

It's one thing to have a lot of oil, it's ANOTHER to have the "know-how' and technology to process it. That's why you DON'T WANT To piss of the United States. Most if not all of the Oil processing technology/equipment were developed or invented in the USA. Sure, this tech is pretty common now but IT DOESN'T MAKE IT easy.

What a life! 😢

Again???

This country may be the same UAE today.

what about riding a bike?

20+40=70 no wonder she is broke.😅

is this the channel that made the fullndic on venuzalla like economics and it has the most oil in the world ? I can't find it and need to show a prof at a darn uni who swearchs it has littenoi far behind ua Quatro other countries and Texas ( does Texas have lots of oil ) I thought it was a dw doc but I can't find it ! is this part of it ? I swe it many months ago so can't remember well !

Water injection is the best fix a simple spray system made from a wiper motor pump and a 20l container will do the trick mount a micro switch on the throttle body to activate when at 1/4 throttle inject the water just in front of the throttle body ensure the air filter is in good condition as it will create vacuum increasing water flow at higher throttle openings. About 1l of water for 1hr of operation of a 2l engine. Note that more less water will be required depending on driving conditions engine size and fuel quality water spray quality. Ensure to idle the engine after use for 1-2 min to evaporate any residual water.

But Roger Waters LOVES Venezuela~!!!

Trapped by car dependancy. If only there were good alternatives, like the freedom of mass transit.....

You get what you vote for!

Socialism moment.

No to the Mexican President

Venezuelan fate is different from Saudi Arabia. I used to think Saudi people life is miserable but now it is Venezuelan.

China will save them with cheap EVs and bikes

Yes, we did. Looking at this image I remembered the Romania in 80’s. same situation due to the comunist regime

Another great example of a country not to bring children into to spare them the misery.

Jud1aron El gas

A centrally planned economy. 😏

time to stop blaming the west and start blaming bad goverments

Vote for Kamala and we'll have the same issues. Communism is a plague.

El Socialismo Para Siempre! Las consequencias tambien.

There was not a switch from capitalism to socialism, privates business are allowed in Venezuela.

Have put up another comment this is ridiculous the most proven reserves and import fuel. What is wrong with them.

Hilarious country, also proves how socialism is always an absolute failure.

Just want to say… cameraman… give that lady 120 bucks to get her fuel pump. Geez.

Blame the political fraction but it comes down to the people.

Welcome to socialism

This only proves how dump some people are! 😂 they have evrething and are still poor

Switching from capitalism to democratic socialism is to blame.

Uraaaa🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

Latinos are among the loveliest people!

Why germany sending aid to hamas and not sending anything to Venezuela? ❤❤❤ 😂😂😂 Btw , alllah bless immigrations to germany especially into berlin ! Here koran law ruling over domestic law ! Brothers, you can do with locals whatever you want ❤❤❤