Lack of diesel has incurred more losses on farmers, vehicles, truck drivers, and citizens alike. Hundreds of vehicles of different sizes were seen lining in rows waiting their turn to fill up their vehicles or barrels for agricultural or industrial ends throughout the entire week.

Driver Mohammed Al-Jabi, 35, told the Yemen Post that lack of diesel will force him to stop his Hilux car operated by diesel from which he supports his family by taking passengers from one city to another.

"I traveled early on Saturday from Ibb to Sana'a thinking that the diesel crisis has ended. To my surprise, I found cars and trucks in long rows waiting for diesel. There was no crowds at other stations and when I drove to them, they told me they have no diesel," said Al-Jabi.

Policeman Rajeh Al-Sabahi assures that diesel crisis is on the rise, especially when some station owners monopolize it to sell it later at higher prices.

"My cousin went at night to a nearby station and he bought a barrel of diesel for YR 11,000 at a 40 % increase. I bought a 20-liter container at YR 750," confirmed Al-Sabahi.

He also demanded concerned authorities to send inspectors at the expense of station owners to oversee diesel distribution, hinting that they seek other stations because Yemen Petroleum Company's stations sells 40 liters for each person while farmers need more quantity to operate their generators for irrigating their crops.

In provinces like Ibb, bus drivers using diesel stopped operating their buses because of diesel shortage and several drivers stated that less quantity are brought to the stations and are sold over night and for people who pay more.

At the meantime, citizens have been subjected to blackmailing as the price of a 20-liter container has doubled in some areas. Economic experts blame the government for mismanaging the crisis, maintaining that government always justifies such shortage by organized or unorganized smuggling.

Head of the Yemeni Society for Consumer Protection Hamoud Al-Bukhuiti emphasized that the government has no clear vision of what is going on, considering the matter to be a mismanagement of crisis.  

Farmers in Mareb, Al-Jawf and Sa'ada complained that crops are being damaged by the heat waves, while they are incapable of getting enough diesel to operate generators of water wells.