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Price controls lead to fuel shortages in China |
| Home | (Reuters) - DONGGUAN, China: "Meiyou, meiyou" - "None here, none here!" the filling station attendant shouts, waving his arms at a small truck pulling up to the diesel pump to signal that it is dry. Without stopping, the truck rolls on in search of the fuel elsewhere - another casualty of the low-profile but intense battle between China's government and its increasingly independent oil firms over who should fund fuel subsidies. |