By Sanjay Pinto
If there is no petrol for three days in a row, how do you commute to work? Many
office goers in Chennai have got permission to work out of their home due to
this unprecedented scarcity of fuel, post the hike.
There may be less traffic on the roads. But strangely enough, traffic cops can be seen regulating crowds at the few petrol pumps in the city that have limited supplies. At such bunks, petrol is being rationed - just a litre or two per motorist. The instruction is clear: park your vehicles outside and queue up with a bottle or a small can.
Quite like the mad rush for application forms for school admission, many motorists particularly auto drivers and others made a beeline at pumps before the crack of dawn for a few litres. Samuel Rajkumar, a driver fumes: " I stood in the queue for 3 hours from 5 am. At 8 am I got diesel for five hundred rupees. When I asked if I could get some more, I was told to go back to the end of the queue."
What most customers in Chennai now look forward to is not the rollback but the regular supply of fuel. "Are the oil companies playing mind games with us? Create an artificial scarcity so that we would think its ok to shell out more as long as we get to fill our tanks" asked another irate customer.
Oil companies say the situation will improve by tomorrow. People in Chennai wonder if they will keep their word.
There may be less traffic on the roads. But strangely enough, traffic cops can be seen regulating crowds at the few petrol pumps in the city that have limited supplies. At such bunks, petrol is being rationed - just a litre or two per motorist. The instruction is clear: park your vehicles outside and queue up with a bottle or a small can.
Quite like the mad rush for application forms for school admission, many motorists particularly auto drivers and others made a beeline at pumps before the crack of dawn for a few litres. Samuel Rajkumar, a driver fumes: " I stood in the queue for 3 hours from 5 am. At 8 am I got diesel for five hundred rupees. When I asked if I could get some more, I was told to go back to the end of the queue."
What most customers in Chennai now look forward to is not the rollback but the regular supply of fuel. "Are the oil companies playing mind games with us? Create an artificial scarcity so that we would think its ok to shell out more as long as we get to fill our tanks" asked another irate customer.
Oil companies say the situation will improve by tomorrow. People in Chennai wonder if they will keep their word.
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