After Burma (Myanmar) was put in the black list of the international anti-money laundry monitoring group, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), it made an increasing price of US dollar and hit the patrol in the entire country and most petrol stations are closed and denied to sell.

After the exchange rate to US dollar highs, it creates the price of commodities in the market.  It instabalize to gasoline and petrol prices and forced most station owners in Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State, to stop selling for a while.

“We do not dare to sell the petrol and gas now.  The prices can be up or may be down.  We just stopped selling for a while.  Not always.  When the situation is stable, we resume selling again”, said an owner of a patrol station in Maung-nyan quarter in Mawlamyine.

On October 22, the patrol and gasoline prices were at 2,330 kyats per liter, 92 Octane 2,030 kyat per liter, the price of diesel was 2,635 kyats per liter and the premium price was 2,715 kyats per liter respectively.

The local people in Mawlamyine Township said that it was difficult to find petrol in the city and they faced problems in their travels and in their livelihoods.

A local town resident said, “in this morning, I tried to find petrol.  I did not get any from stations, but had to fill in from outside a small shop.  It is expensive”.

The patrol and gasoline prices were expensive in small shops and one liter became up to 4,000 Kyats.

Since the military junta, State Administrative Council (SAC), seized the political power in February, 2021, the patrol prices have increased up to tripled and the people also faced shortage of petrol and gasoline often.