A fuel crisis has hit Iraq's Kurdish region, leaving drivers in Irbil waiting for hours, some overnight, to buy gasolineIRBIL, Iraq -- Drivers in Iraq's semiautonomous northern Kurdish region waited in line for hours, some overnight, to buy gasoline in recent days as a fuel crisis gripped the main city, Irbil. Most private gas stations were shuttered Tuesday, with only a handful of government-run stations still selling fuel. Authorities in northern Iraq blamed the fuel shortages on the conflict. The frustration at times boiled into shouting matches as drivers abandoned single-file lines to form two or even three queues. Hamad pointed to the irony of gas lines in a country rich in energy resources.