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By Marek Strzelecki and Kuba Stezycki WARSAW/BOGDANKA (Reuters) - In Poland s late summer heat, dozens of cars and trucks line up at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka coal mine, as householders fearful of winter shortages wait for days and nights to stock up on heating fuel in queues reminiscent of communist times. Artur, 57, a pensioner, drove up from Swidnik, some 30 km (18 miles) from the mine in eastern Poland on Tuesday, hoping to buy several tonnes of coal for himself and his family. Toilets were put up today, but there s no running water, he said, after three nights of sleeping in his small red hatchback in a crawling queue of trucks, tractors towing trailers and private cars. This is beyond imagination, people are sleeping in their cars. I remember the communist times but it didn t cross my mind that we could return to something even worse. Artur s household is one of the 3.8 million in Poland that rely on coal for heating and now face shortages and price hikes, after Poland and the ....
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In Poland s late summer heat, dozens of cars and trucks line up at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka coal mine, as householders fearful of winter shortages wait for days and nights to stock up on heating ....