{"id":46035,"date":"2022-07-04T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/sri-lanka-limits-fuel-to-essential-services-petrol-station-queues"},"modified":"2022-07-04T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:02:39","slug":"sri-lanka-limits-fuel-to-essential-services-with-supplies-set-to-run-out-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46035","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka limits fuel to essential services with supplies set to run out in days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miles-long queues outside petrol stations despite ban on sales for private vehicles for at least a week<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s energy minister has said the country\u2019s fuel supplies will run out in a few days, forcing nationwide school closures and prolonged power cuts, as the worst economic crisis in its history continues.<\/p>\n<p>Kanchana Wijesekera said fuel stocks were enough to last less than a day under current demand, and petrol and diesel was being limited to essential services such a healthcare and public transport in order to stretch out the remaining supplies for a few more days and ensure the country did not shut down entirely.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/sri-lanka-limits-fuel-to-essential-services-petrol-station-queues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles-long queues outside petrol stations despite ban on sales for private vehicles for at least a weekSri Lanka\u2019s energy minister has said the country\u2019s fuel supplies will run out in a few days, forcing nationwide school closures and prolonged power c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46036,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035\/revisions\/46036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}