Lack of Fuel
Many power companies in the DR make claims of having no fuel. It is a great way to press the government for payment without getting the people upset with the power company.
When Smith Enron shut down for the the first time several years ago, they took the honesty approach and declared they were not running because they were not getting paid. They received a lot of bad press for it.
Companies learnt from this, and began declaring they were not running because they were out of fuel, and could not buy more unless they were paid (clever) - relieving them of blame since it wasn't by choice...they were just out of fuel...poor poor power companies, right?
Then someone got caught! They made the claim, the military showed up and dipped the tanks - voila! Plenty of fuel.
The current claims are one of the two scenarios. Root cause of the chaos, whether there is fuel in the tanks or not, is lack of payment. Money makes the world go round, and keeps the lights on.
There is talk of blame on Venezuela, etc. resulting in a supply shortage - This is unbelievable. Where there is money, there will be fuel. Do you think that all the rest of the Caribbean islands are without fuel? No chance.
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