{"id":1078931,"date":"2022-05-06T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/according-to-the-ies-a-diesel-scarcity-is-on-the-way-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:23:10","slug":"according-to-the-ies-a-diesel-scarcity-is-on-the-way-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/according-to-the-ies-a-diesel-scarcity-is-on-the-way-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"According to the IES, a diesel scarcity is on the way in Ghana."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>According to the Institute of Energy Security (IES), a diesel shortage is on the way in Ghana.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/c1c0c08562cc4bf4a687ec9830825369\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some oil marketing companies (OMCs) are already feeling the heat, as inspections by 3FM&#8217;s Sunrise at various pumps on Friday morning revealed that there was no diesel available.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IES, the shortfall is due to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been following the market since the beginning of the year,&#8221; Fritz Moses, a Research Analyst at the Institute of Energy Security, told Sunrise on Friday, hosted by Alfred Ocansey, &#8220;but we don&#8217;t have a widely disseminated report on the scarcity in Ghana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worldwide market is experiencing some shortages as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which is also affecting the local market.&#8221; &#8220;Yes, we are seeing a decline in diesel supply in the foreign market, which will result in a shortfall in the domestic market.&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/76ec92f8c9fa4d8ab554e90403ab8647\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moses warned that unless something is done as soon as possible, both locally and internationally, fuel prices will skyrocket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the price of diesel has been rising for a few weeks.&#8221; We hope it will be resolved as quickly as possible because diesel is currently more expensive than gasoline. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drivers should embrace themselves for more escalation due to what is happening in the foreign market,&#8221; the research analyst cautioned.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Morrisbukay (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAlfred Ocansey<br \/>\nFritz Moses<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nIES<br \/>\nInstitute of Energy Security<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Institute of Energy Security (IES), a diesel shortage is on the way in Ghana. Some oil marketing companies (OMCs) are already feeling the heat, as inspections by 3FM&#8217;s Sunrise at various pumps on Friday morning revealed that there was no diesel available. According to the IES, the shortfall is due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6159,85,600,12262],"class_list":["post-1078931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-diesel","tag-ghana","tag-ies","tag-scarcity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}