11 Things You Didn’t Know About Libya Under Gaddafi’s ‘Dictatorship’

Was He Really A Heartless Tyrant?

5. Gasoline Was Practically Given Away

According to the people in power, the Libyan government — the richest country in Africa when Gaddafi was in charge — used its incredible fuel reserves to insure that its people didn’t have to break the bank to ensure that they had heat or gasoline. Even more impressive, Gaddafi’s regime supposedly made electricity free to all of Libya’s people.