Gasoline Lines Get Longer in Venezuela

Venezuelan drivers are facing growing queues to buy gasoline despite having the world's largest oil reserves, adding to the OPEC country's woes as its refineries sputter and its socialist economic system crumbles. The queues and shuttered service stations have been intermittent problems for much of this year, most notably outside the capital. But in recent days the problem has worsened, with lines popping up at service stations in Caracas, while drivers in the southern city of Puerto Ordaz were waiting an average of four hours to fill their tanks. More…