"The truth is that I work with the car and it's like looking for water in the desert," said 38-year-old Cabify driver Raul Paretto. "It is distressing because you don't know on a day-to-day basis what can happen; we are living one day at a time." EXPORT HALT THREATOil executives cited planned halts at local refineries, which provide 80% of domestic supply, and the country's scarce foreign currency reserves that have held up imports. Argentina's government has fixed a local oil price at $56 per barrel, far below the international price around $86 to try to calm local inflation of nearly 140%. loadingA second industry source, also declining to be named, also said that the issue was not output, but issues in refining the crude oil and the hurdles to bringing in imports.

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Persons: Sergio Massa, Javier Milei, Raul Paretto, Leonardo Villa, Jorge Chemes, Massa, Vaca Muerta, Eliana Raszewski, Claudia Martini, Maximilian Heath, Adam Jourdan, Barbara Lewis, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Argentine Rural Confederations, Reuters, Thomson Locations: BUENOS AIRES, Argentine, Peronist, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Vaca