Aristides Fernandez Zucco, the president of the Dominican Refinery (REFIDOMSA), guaranteed yesterday that a solution to the national propane supply problems was forthcoming. Fernandez Zucco said he had begun working on a plan that would increase the refinery’s storage capacity, on the one hand, and provide more equipment to dispatch propane, on the other. At the same time, he announced the payment of RD$1.46 billion that the government owed the refinery as part of the propane subsidy. Obviously pleased, Fernandez Zucco furthermore announced the expected arrival of 38,000,000 gallons of LPG over the next six weeks. In order to make this happen, Fernandez said he had instructed his technicians to find alternative suppliers in order to keep reserve propane supplies permanently on hand and to have, at all times, a ship waiting to unload more of the gas that is used in most households for cooking and in many public transport vehicles. One of the solutions mentioned in the Listin Diario article is the possibility of obtaining barges that could be used as floating storage facilities, and thereby supply 60% of the local market that is assigned to the refinery.