Russia's Fuel Fiasco: A Crisis of Capacity, Not Crude The long queues snaking around Moscow's petrol stations are a familiar sight for many Russians this summer.
But what's striking is not that the country is running low on oil it's that it's struggling to convert crude into usable fuel.
The Ukraine driven attacks on Russia's oil refineries have exposed a critical vulnerability in the nation's energy infrastructure: its capacity to refine and produce petrol.