Diesel shortage: YPF raises the price by more than 4% within Misiones

Having applied a differential cost for foreign vehicles that charge at its Misiones stations, YPF has now made up its mind a new adaptation on the diesel that it markets in its service stations in the interior of the province, generating a new asymmetry. The increases did not surprise the drivers, which they are more concerned about the shortage than the price.

People who need to refuel outside Posadas you have to pay between five and eight pesos more per liter.

Weekend, surprisinglyvending machine billboards have begun to display the new values: $ 134.50 per liter of 500 diesel and $ 178.40 for premium diesel. The increase is 4.26% for the common diesel and 4.75% for the more refined version.

There was no state oil company no explanation on the not generalized increase of service stations in the province, but from the Chamber of Fuels and Allied Sellers of the Northeast (CESANE) affirm that This is not the first time this has happened.

On Friday, the governor of Misiones, Oscar Herrera Ahuad, received the President of the YPF, Pablo Gonzalezand demanded that as soon as more diesel-powered ships enter the country, the share has increased for the sellers of the province.

“There are our provinces and those of the North the harvest season and producers can’t afford to tackle a problem again, “the president said.

“We are in the middle of harvesting the yerba mate. The producer suffered with the drought, then with the fires and if we now add the fuel problem, certainly that production sector, which is one of the most important indicator products of the Gross Domestic Product, It is about to fall”Explained Herrera Ahuad.

Shortly before the meeting with González, who arrived in the province in visit the places where there is greater pressure from foreigners on suppliers and smuggling is a constant, the governor had demonstrated very critical with YPF’s decision to increase a liter of premium diesel and petrol to 240 pesos for vehicles with a foreign license plate.

“He puts the ball in the field of gas station employees and it will not solve the shortage problemHerrera Ahuad bluntly said about the YPF measure. And he added just thatfurther encourages smugglingNo doubt”.

Also pessimistic is Faruk Jalaf, president of the Chamber of gas stations and relatives of the Northeast: “It is for to deceive public opinion a little, but they won’t get anything with it, because there isn’t even Infinia Diesel ”(the premium brand).

Furthermore, he described the provision as “a improvisation. Since October we have been warning of the shortage, and they only admitted it after the meeting of the governors of the Norte Grande ”.

“Our head of cabinet said he would solve the problem in 48 hours and that’s not truebecause to import a diesel ship it takes at least 30 or 60 days to get the money and even more in the current era where fuel is lacking all over the world ”, added the leader.

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