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Venezuelans Stock Up On Toilet Paper Amid Shortage
A woman who just bought toilet paper at a grocery store reads her receipt as she leaves the store in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday. The government says it will import 50 million rolls of toilet paper amid a ...
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Venezuelan shoppers hit by toilet roll shortage
There is so little toillet paper available across the country that the Venezuelan government has promised to import 50 million rolls. "Even at my age, I've never seen this," said 70-year-old Maria Rojas. She had been looking for toilet paper for two weeks when she finally found it at a supermarket in the capital Caracas. Shoppers lucky enough to locate toilet rolls are stripping ...
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Venezuela fighting toilet paper shortage
Venezuela is facing a shortage of a number of basic goods The government announced it will import 50 million rolls of toilet paper Officials blame private companies and the media for the shortage The opposition says the government's own economic policies are ...
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Venezuela up the creek as entire country runs out of TOILET PAPER
Venezuelans have scrambled to stock up on toilet paper as fears of what could be a messy bathroom emergency spread – despite the socialist government's promise to import 50 million rolls.After years of economic dysfunction, the country has gotten used to shortages of medicines and basic food items like milk and sugar but the scarcity of bathroom tissue has, quite understandably, ...
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RPT-COLUMN-Enhanced recovery will anchor oil prices below $100 Kemp
Fri May 17, 2013 4:14am EDT By John Kemp LONDON May 16 (Reuters) - Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques could boost U.S. domestic oil production by 4 million barrels per day for 50 years, while storing all the emissions from 93 large coal-fired power plants, at a price of just $85 per barrel, according to an estimate published by the U.S. Department of Energy. By injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
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First milk butter coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities — toilet paper.
Supermarket staff work next to partially empty shelves of toilet paper in Caracas, May 16, 2013. Supplies of food and other basic products have been patchy in recent months, with long queues forming at supermarkets and rushes occurring when there is news of a new stock ...
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