Energy and a whole country

 

Right now there is a shortage of petrol in the whole country.  It is hard to understand why this is the case.  I'm told that at the few stations that actually have petrol, police are on duty and there are long lines with some people having to push their cars up to the pump.  Most of our cars here at the village use diesel and that is available.  Alan Patty just returned from Livingstone and said there was only 1 station between Livingstone and Lusaka (a 6 hour drive) that had petrol.   This happens periodically here, although there are often more predictions than reality.  This time the prediction became reality.