Folk in remote settlements frustrated with paying RM5 to RM6 per litre for diesel

rural folks in interior northern sarawak seen here queuing up to buy fuel for their daily use for their generators and farm machineries as well as for their longboat engines and vehicles. an acute shortage of the fuel had resulted in the prices in the ulu shooting up to three times the normal price. stephen pic.

MIRI: The price of fuel in many interior settlements in Sarawak has gone up drastically.

Diesel, a vital necessity in remote pockets, is being sold as high as RM5 to RM6 per litre due to acute shortage.