Our neighbor, the taxi driver Rajesh, drove us to Thamel two days ago and he had bought 4 liters on the black market for five times more than the usual price.
When we went home we had to pay three times more than usual and the driver told us that he and his brother had been standing in line for petrol for two days and two nights.
He drove like a car thief since he wanted to get as far as possible on the fumes he had left. We arrived home safely and I hope he did too.
Now the government has told Nepal Oil to bring petrol and karosene to Nepal at any means and rumor says they will fly it in from Bangladesh.
The Nepalese people are growing a hatred against India that has put us in this situation just because Nepal decided to write the constitution without asking big brother India for advice.
China is taking there chance to get more influence over Nepal and the 15:th of October they will reopen the road that was heavily damaged by a landslide in August last year.
This is all about power and money and, as always, it's the poor people who are suffering the most.
Queues to a petrol station here in Kathmandu.
The buses are already overcrowded with people on the roof and hanging on to anything sticking out.
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