The National Association of Gasoline Retailers (ANADEGAS) has announced that it will stop receiving fuel today in order to pressurize the government into seeking solutions to problems that have “made them go bankrupt”. ANADEGAS controls almost 75% of the country’s gasoline stations, as reported by Diario Libre. The retailers’ association president Juan Ignacio Espaillat said they would sell the fuel they have in stock until they run out, because they cannot continue to operate with what they perceive as low profit rates. He explained that they took the decision as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has not yet responded to the sector’s basic problems despite having been granted a five-month period to do so. According to the business leader, tax-free fuel has reduced the sales of their service stations. In 2004 they sold 69,000 gallons per station whereas now they are only selling 47,000.