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Facing US Oil Blockade, Cuban Man Powers Car with Charcoal 🗿

Juan Carlos Pino’s charcoal-powered Fiat offers a cheaper alternative amid $30-per-gallon black market gasoline prices, inspired by open-source tech and built entirely from scrap.

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A Cuban mechanic has converted his 1980 Fiat Polski to run on charcoal, a cheaper and more abundant fuel than gasoline since Washington cut off oil shipments to the Caribbean island in January.

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Instead of gasoline, a motorist puts charcoal in his car to start it. This is in the face of the difficult supply of petroleum products in his country, Cuba.

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Facing US oil blockade, Cuban man powers car with charcoal 🗿

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Appreciating the island ingenuity developed after decades of crisis, the mechanic Juan Carlos Pino modified his 1980 Fiat Polski Writing Juan Carlos Pino, a Cuban mechanic with only eighth grade studies, could have found a way to circumvent the U.S. oil blockade. Appearing the Cuban ingenuity developed after decades of crisis, Pino, 56 years old, modified his 1980 Fiat Polski, made in Poland, to run on charcoal, a fuel cheaper and more abundant …

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The Straits Times broke the news in Singapore on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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