The fuel crisis has forced the region to use all channels of the additional amount of fuel, including the mechanism of preferential supply of fuel for agriculture. The majority of subjects of the Russian Federation suffered from a shortage of gasoline in the spring of 2011, dramatically increased the volume of additional requests for preferential fuel - it has exceeded 500 thousand tons. In the Ministry of agriculture promised "strict control" under regional appetites areas: the growth of market demand threatens new rising prices at the pump. ""We will check the validity of all claims of the regions according to their plans of agricultural work and will consider providing additional volumes in this regard - but this does not mean that you can capitalize on the existing deficit," said the representative office of the Ministry of agriculture Oleg Aksenov. The largest additional amount of privileged gasoline and diesel fuel has requested regions, first felt the shortage of petroleum products: the Altai Republic and Altai Krai, Novosibirsk, Voronezh, Leningrad, Kursk, Belgorod, Irkutsk oblast and Krasnodar Krai. While on the basis of instructions of the Ministry of energy dated April 26, all depots required to continue leave grace petroleum products for agriculture in the next months. Recall, problems with fuel in Russia began at the end of April.