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of mine because no one should have to make up your own mind. dw may 4 mines or the money is spent is wayne, as a country with the world's largest proven crude, oil reserves suffering through a fuel shortage. drive is key for hours sometimes overnight to just for accounts to fill that tanks. but the gasoline they finally push, you isn't just gas. it's potentially lease so capable of tending that vehicles into ticking time bomb. welcome to venezuela. what caused explode and gasoline is the fuel of mystery. venezuela struck the black gold in the 19 twenty's. and every time it went from one of the poorest countries in the region to the richest in south

america, with the economy driven by oil money, venezuela presses. but until crude oil prices dropped the switch from capitalism to socialism in the late ninety's further plunge, the country into economic turmoil. venezuela has the capacity to serve its own fuel needs. but with the countries refineries in poor condition, petroleum imports from iran and mitigating the shortages. but the questionable quality of the fuel means the life of the average. venezuelan isn't easy. the truth is that i don't know where i'm going to get the money because i count on enough to keep the car and have food in my fridge. we once we queued for fuel for 10 hours. we arrived at 3 am and left at 4 pm. it's not easy. i think the then in 2018 or 29. so you for refineries were totally paralyzed. i meant the body shop

many and a carrasco is on a mission to find out why had called keeps failing. she's one of the many victims of the poor quality feel the country contents with today. she's taking her call to a garage for a check. having a comment that is well, it is really hard and expensive because the call sometimes fails to stop there several components on the call a damaged, like the fuel. for example, for me not about the i'm praying this just one of those components has an issue to the battery or the fuel pump. it wouldn't be completely damaged about that, but the salina for the car doesn't catch on fine. no. she's hosting high trusted mechanic rose will help diagnose the issues with the car not know how i going uphill and i think one piston isn't working on these 3

estimates for what account was relegates to box the cylinders and the spark plugs. so and one thing in the house is inspection even checks over the rest of the engines, but finds that it's in decent shape. still, mariana knows something is wrong with had call and got the call starts making noises if you want us to try. no, we have to check the fuel system to see how the filters are you guys? the problem doesn't seem to be here. okay. that how much will the fuel pump cost? would that be a way to go to the costs of the fuel pump is $20.00. yeah. plus $40.00 labor. because again, um okay, so you're telling me that it's a minimum or $70.00 you most of in that already we yes. at least $70.00 easy. what if it's the complete pump package going to take the budget. if it's the complete

package, it costs a $120.00. it comes with the whole system. the com and the float on the news is disheartening. and then the honest results is a stretched thin and spending $120.00. i'm replacing the entire fuel system is something she just can't afford. the patrice is that i don't know where i'm going to get the money because the content enough to keep a copy and have food in my fridge. in 2020, the venezuelan government announced impulse of loyal from iran, with the price capt. $0.50 per liter. but as time went by, the price is rose. well, the quality dropped. who beto mauricio a full my finance manager at the state turned oil and gas company, p. d. the say has his theories about what happened and tosses being all going on. when the great crisis came, that was when the iranian ships arrive almost without gasoline in the whole country

. and we're expecting a lot for our ships to, oh yeah, that's what the gasoline was distributed for a few days. but there was always doubt about the quality or so the chain is one factor. i'm kind of the and i really mean to attain is what ensures the human doesn't explode under pressure. but only one. the spark plugs sparsely north floating, hoping to see on the team as low level here when it is under pressure inside the engine, the feeling that causes it to detonate will tend to explode. so i think a phone is that even for those whose calls are currently running fine, procuring fuel, it's time consuming dummy is a shift to hopes that to midnight quest will lead him to a full tank of gas. it's 10 minutes to 3 am. i'm heading to the service station to get gas. well, let's hope i get to leave early. don't have to wait so many hours there for fuel.

he's heading to a gas station where residents can get subsidies to fuel on 2nd days, determined by their license plate number despite the cause queueing ahead of him. dummy has seen was and he's optimistic today and show it a little boy living there. today i came at 3 am on the line is really not very long and that i should be out of here in about 7 am to mom a little bit. but let's say it takes 4 or 5 hours, or sometimes 6 or 7. 1 time it took like 10 hours, we arrived at 3 am and left at 4 pm. i mean, it's not easy. it's all about allowed. me could have both fuel from a station without too long queues, that fuel that would be sold. the international market price is in us dollars. something no tool venezuelans can afford for dummy the hours of

inconclusive. today's goals are the only way to ensure his call has a full tank of gas boiler. and uh, well, it's going to be 6 am on the vocal. we're not far away. about 10 or 12 cars. but bear with me on that. then i can go back and rest a little in the early morning to get my energy back la moda. wow. of where is that going? what this dummy finally reaches the pump is too dangerous to film for along the stations that run by the meal paramilitary groups who often demand bribes just to fill out. but for this we re venezuelan, its mission accomplished. well we're coming out of the gas station. we managed to fill up the tank. it's half past 6 in the morning. thank god. this via fuel shortage and the poor quality if you are

a far cry from when the countries oil industry was pricing. when i put them in order, i quoted, well, let's 1st remember that around 1998 or 99 pitch rodeos to venezuela was ranked as the 2nd best oil company in the world. 20022003 flashes between the chavez, lead governments, and tbs, say, let to oil production and dropping. it was the beginning of the end of many plants where it fail language. so you didn't have 40 plants operating. you had 30 or 20, i see that in 2018 or 2019 for refineries were totally paralyzed. and there were no fully functional refineries at all. it's all resulted in a situation of daily struggle for people like mariana today. she's of to have a fuel pump examined for the next, but for the moreno has worked with fuel pumps the over 10 years. in the past 5,

he's seen more and more problems caused by low quality gets the feel nozzles over. he eats, moves out of the nozzles on top overheads and the car ignite. so when the oxygen enters, the car doesn't explode, but it will catch on fire. pretty inspect the fuel pump on any on his car and the results just does she feed them off there. okay, we're doing the check that will meet a look here. you have a branch connect, you're going to go to the model, the model they'd be able to get. it's had, it's time and there's nothing more that can be done. yeah. can you, i'm, i'm on the, i guess it as well. no problem. well, new fuel pump module, you have to buy a new one and problem. i didn't want you to know that as many on it has to try and replace the entire unit or give up on her car entirely. that's as luck we'll have it hits the call. that gives us one myself. i am on the call failed again. did you

want to start? the mechanic told me it's the complete fuel pump because of the gasoline eat. i have to wait for it to cool down to see if i can get home and see if it can be fixed. the router. i'm going to sell the car also eating it. so i can't go on in this situation where every 5 minutes i break down because of the gasoline. that's what it's like to have a car in venezuela with this west list. gasoline. owning a car in venezuela is twice a necessity. and well, johnny hopes that his tank of gas will last until he said, now to refuel the following week, nearly on it is confronted with a tough decision. can she really afford to run the call that constantly needs repairs because of substantive fuel? like many venezuelans, they suffer the consequences of both supply and low quality fuel, seemingly with no and insight. have you ever faced

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