Sri Lanka: in search of a drop of petrol

Once time was money: when the fuel gauge needle moves into the red zone, the driver joins one of the long queues at the petrol stations. Often she waits there more than twelve hours for petrol. The price of petrol is constantly rising: she now pays more than 150 percent more at the pump than she did eight months ago
Once time was money: when the fuel gauge needle moves into the red zone, the driver joins one of the long queues at the petrol stations. Often she waits there more than twelve hours for petrol. The price of petrol is constantly rising: she now pays more than 150 percent more at the pump than she did eight months ago

In the worst economic crisis Sri Lanka's in decades, Lasanda Deepthi's life is determined by the needle on the fuel gauge of her tuk-tuk (photo: Adnan Abidi/Reuters)