The ports are offloading fuel, putting petrol, whose price had risen from $8 a tank to $200, back into the pumps at a quarter of its pre-war cost (see article).
Marca ran just two small football photos, squashed onto the right side: one was Jesé, the other was Pedro … the World Cup winner whose father pumped petrol at a forecourt barely 20km away.
Those killed include an Ethiopian whose shop was petrol bombed and two South Africans.
Among the dozens of victims this week was a severely burned five-year-old girl whose bus was petrol-bombed on the way to Kathmandu.
A multi-millionaire petrol head, whose brother nearly ran Ukip, a friend of the Prince of Wales, purveyor of hit-and-miss comedy and cash-in spin-offs.
Ephrem says he knows of about 100, pointing to a looted petrol station whose owner was dragged on to the forecourt and shot.
They need to be, if the buyer of a 560bhp saloon capable of reaching 62mph in 4.4 seconds, 124mph in 13, and not stopping until electronics decide that 190mph is enough, is not to be excommunicated from a society the majority of whose members are not petrol heads.
Democrats whose cars run out of petrol, for example, will probably fill up at the nearest petrol station, even though oil firms donate mostly to Republicans.Republicans and Democrats do have different shopping habits, observes Vishal Singh, an academic who studies marketing at NYU Stern.
Without much petrol, public transport, whose fares have also been slashed, has become too scarce for commuters.
Jennifer Marsh, whose car ran out of petrol on North End Road towards Putney, said she was waiting for her fiancé to arrive on a motorbike with petrol.
