The president of the National Fuel Retailers Association (ANADEGAS), Emilio Vasquez says that his members will march to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce today, Tuesday 4 February, at 11am to personally deliver a document outlining their demands to the Minister, Jose del Castillo Savinon.
At the same time 500 gas stations will be closed for sales from 6am to 2pm so that their owners, families and employees can go to the Ministry asking them to stop their “unhealthy intentions to the detriment of the sector”.
One of their main complaints was what they describe as the “unjustifiably high price of fuel” pointing out that Dominicans are paying the highest prices in Latin America – in fact in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and the United States, prices are between 18% and 38% lower than the Dominican Republic.
Anadegas is also opposing a recent Ministry of Industry and Commerce decision revoking Resolution 64-95 that provides margins that make fuel sales profitable. What would be eliminated is the differential in price profit margin that allows for the fuel volumetric expansion. Fuel volumes are known to change due to the variations in temperature.
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