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Diesel in the Chatkal villages: half again the Talas price. Same diesel. It just walked further.

To explain to the city people why this matters. Up here diesel is not for cars. It is the generator for the vaccine fridge, the pump, the one truck that brings flour before the snow. When the price goes up we do not drive less. We sell another sheep.

Soodagers bring it over the trails. They pay the clan levy, which is customary and written, and the elders read it out at the Kurultai. They also pay another levy at the line. Nobody reads that one out. The UNMI people say one fat-tailed sheep buys about 150 litres. That is the real exchange rate of Irad. Not five to the dollar.

Kenkol is closed again. Snow. Diesel up again. These two are married.

Kenkol open. Price not down. Divorce.

Kenkol closed early this year, 1 November. Diesel up on the 2nd. The marriage continues.

UNMI SAYS DIESEL IN CHATKAL VALLEY VILLAGES COSTS 40 TO 60 PERCENT MORE THAN IN TALAS. WE HAVE OUR OWN QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO PROFITS: The Gendarmerie's Diesel Empire. UNVERIFIED, AS ALWAYS. LABEL YOUR RUMOURS.

Prices in the tribal regions are set by the tribal regions. The ISEZ cannot be blamed for clan levies. Have a nice day.

Steppe side: diesel is cheaper by us because the northern crossings are on our side. Before the mountain people ask: no, we do not send it uphill for free. We send it for sheep.

NotADPIagent posted:

The ISEZ cannot be blamed for clan levies.

Our levy is written and read aloud in front of three hundred elders. Show me where the other one is written, and I will read it aloud myself.

Six sergeants jailed for tanker bribes at the Qara-Chik crossing (see the checkpoint thread). Let's see if the Chatkal price moves.

Six checkpoint sergeants jailed. Diesel up here is still half as much again. Horses do not lie. Arithmetic does not either.

It did not move.

RUMOUR from the trucks: some soodagers now ask to be paid in Tulparcoin. I told my nephew the sheep is still the better currency. Nobody can block a sheep.