Monday, May 21, 2007
Even sitting on the 3rd largest pool of oil
Doesn't make it any easier to get a tankful of gas in Iraq.
But from dawn to dusk two or three times a week they push the rusty vehicle up an incline, one slow car length at a time, to buy gasoline they can scarcely afford.You would have to drive a separate Hummer for each foot while working at Wal-Mart to pay 90% of your income for gas.
Their Sisyphean shove to the front of the line repeats itself throughout the week so Abu Mohammed can drive a gypsy cab around Baghdad.
If he makes $20 in a day ferrying his fellow Iraqis around the battered capital, $18 of that - 23,000 Iraqi dinars - will go for gasoline.
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