Petrol stations in Tunisia are full of queues of motorists lining up to fill their tanks for fear of running out of petrol. Observers fear that the crisis of losing imported basic goods will worsen in the second half of this year.

Some believe that the gasoline distribution crisis is due to a shortage of strategic stocks and disruption in the distribution of the substance in the market. Others believe that shortages of hard currency and public finance problems and disruption of market distribution are to blame for the fuel crisis.