https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/kazakhstan-government-resigns-after-violent-protests-over-fuel-price-2022-01-05/The Kremlin has said it expected Kazakhstan, a close ally, to quickly resolve its internal problems, warning other countries against interfering. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Russian accusations that the United States had instigated the unrest were false.
Initially sparked by anger at a fuel price rise, the protests have quickly spread to take in wider opposition to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev, who retained significant power despite quitting in 2019 after a nearly three-decade rule.
After accepting the Cabinet's resignation, Tokayev ordered acting ministers to reverse the fuel price rise, which doubled the cost of liquefied petroleum gas widely used for vehicles in Kazakhstan.
Apparently there is alot of shit happening there right now.
Kazakhstan trouble may even be Bitcoin related only 39 days ago was this story
The fuel price being the reason is just another big fat
media lie. Currently the 9th cheapest and used to be the 10th cheapest in the world.
Norway is also a oil producer, with significant differant fuel price. Norway is a large energy producer, one of the world's largest exporters of oil.
$ 0.468 03-Jan-2022
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/Some randomly picked dates
$ 0.463 on 25-Oct-2021
https://web.archive.org/web/20211029050804/https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/$ 0.490 on 13-Aug-2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180820035358/https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/ (Was the 15th cheapest in the world on 14-Aug-2017.)
Kazakhstan is now free of Covid, no more Covid policies, vaccine mandates or other such nonsense.
As your article says, it's not about gasoline price but LPG price. I'm guessing Kazakhstan has a policy of exporting oil and using gas where possible.
The price is still low, but when it goes up by 100% suddenly (and the government is in control of that price, it's not a free market), poor people get upset :
The price per liter of LPG jumped to 120 tenge (28 U.S. cents) at gas stations in hydrocarbon-rich Mangystau – where up to 90% of vehicles run on LPG – at the start of this year, compared to the price of 50-60 tenge the year before, igniting the unrest.
https://www.dailysabah.com/business/energy/who-is-to-blame-in-oil-rich-kazakhstans-major-gas-price-hikeMy father has a car running on LPG, keep in mind the mileage is worse with it. But still 28 cents a litre is better than buying gasoline at 48 cents a litre, so gasoline is basically a luxury in comparison.
Here in France LPG is about 80 eurocents and gasoline 1.6€ for a litre.
