"We Want to Cook Dinner".. The Cooking Gas Crisis Chokes Citizens and Queues Spark Anger

Many popular neighborhoods and Iraqi provinces are living a new daily suffering added to their series of woes: the severe and sudden shortage of cooking gas cylinders. Scenes of long queues where men, women, and children stand for hours waiting for the gas truck have sparked a wave of popular resentment and anger. The citizen who cries out, "We want to cook dinner for our children," finds themselves forced to buy the cylinder at double the price from the black market, which always thrives at the expense of people's crises. It is unreasonable in a country floating on seas of oil and gas that its citizens suffer from a shortage in the simplest necessities of daily life. Residents demand holding monopolists and greedy agents accountable who hide the gas to raise its price, and they call on government authorities to deploy government vehicles to sell gas directly to residents to break the black market monopoly and immediately end this manufactured crisis.