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01-01-2007, 02:35 PM
Guns and Gas: Baghdad Price Update
IraqSlogger Tracks the Necessities in Baghdad
By NIR ROSEN (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/writer/9/Nir_Rosen) Posted 0 hr. 13 min. ago
In late December, IraqSlogger surveyed weapons prices in the southern Baghdad neighborhoods of Maalif, Shurta, Bayaa, Hai Al-Jihad, Seidiya and Dora and found some increases. The Iraqi Dinar itself had gone up to about 1300 to the dollar, as opposed to the nearly 1400 to the dollar a month earlier and the 1450 it was at a few months before. The Iraqi government is reportedly trying to bring it down to 1000 to the dollar.
Kalashnikov bullets were 750 Dinars each, or over fifty cents. Kalashnikov prices ranged depending on the quality, with Russian made Kalashnikovs being the most expensive, but the cheapest, meaning not Russian made, were $400. The more expensive Russian made Kalashnikovs are currently unavailable due to high demand. PKCs went up to $2500, and are also scarce. RPG prices are the same, at about 70,000 Dinars, or $54 at the new exchange rate.
In early December the official price for gasoline at gas stations was 350 Iraqi Dinars per liter. The black-market price was about 500 Dinars per liter. This reflected the fact that the shortage was not as bad as it has been in the recent past. At the end of December gas stations were less crowded than usual, and the lack of delay had encouraged Iraqis to purchase their gas from gas stations and not from the black-market. High quality gas cost 350 Dinars per liter while regular gas costs 250 Dinars per liter. Cooking gas now costs 25,000 Dinars per gas tank. Oil is not available on the black market. It is managed by the government and each family purchases one container for 18,000 Dinars although there is a shortage.
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IraqSlogger Tracks the Necessities in Baghdad
By NIR ROSEN (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/writer/9/Nir_Rosen) Posted 0 hr. 13 min. ago
In late December, IraqSlogger surveyed weapons prices in the southern Baghdad neighborhoods of Maalif, Shurta, Bayaa, Hai Al-Jihad, Seidiya and Dora and found some increases. The Iraqi Dinar itself had gone up to about 1300 to the dollar, as opposed to the nearly 1400 to the dollar a month earlier and the 1450 it was at a few months before. The Iraqi government is reportedly trying to bring it down to 1000 to the dollar.
Kalashnikov bullets were 750 Dinars each, or over fifty cents. Kalashnikov prices ranged depending on the quality, with Russian made Kalashnikovs being the most expensive, but the cheapest, meaning not Russian made, were $400. The more expensive Russian made Kalashnikovs are currently unavailable due to high demand. PKCs went up to $2500, and are also scarce. RPG prices are the same, at about 70,000 Dinars, or $54 at the new exchange rate.
In early December the official price for gasoline at gas stations was 350 Iraqi Dinars per liter. The black-market price was about 500 Dinars per liter. This reflected the fact that the shortage was not as bad as it has been in the recent past. At the end of December gas stations were less crowded than usual, and the lack of delay had encouraged Iraqis to purchase their gas from gas stations and not from the black-market. High quality gas cost 350 Dinars per liter while regular gas costs 250 Dinars per liter. Cooking gas now costs 25,000 Dinars per gas tank. Oil is not available on the black market. It is managed by the government and each family purchases one container for 18,000 Dinars although there is a shortage.
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IraqSlogger: Guns and Gas: Baghdad Price Update (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/478/Guns_and_Gas_Baghdad_Price_Update)