Concern hung in the air as gasoline prices in θÅÆÒΞ shot up to 15 cents a gallon – not too much elsewhere but a startling increase in this oil-rich country.
θÅÆÒΞ ’s mood can shift rapidly when the price of gasoline was adjusted upward. Back in the 1980s. more than 1,000 θÅÆÒΞians were killed in a week-long riot in the late 1980s when there was the last effort to raise prices.