Gasoline is smuggled into Syria and the tank costs $ 6 1/2 to the smuggler.

Osama al-Qadri wrote in “Nidaa al-Watan”:

It is not surprising that fuel oil subsidized by gas station tanks is running out, after the Bekaaites got used to losing it almost permanently and securing it from the black market at double the price. What the citizen suffers.

According to information from “Nida Al Watan”, the reason for the crisis of the loss of gasoline has aggravated the crisis in Syria, and the smuggling work has shifted from diesel to gasoline. The crisis there has increased the demand for gasoline to be smuggled through illegal means, through the eastern chain bordering Syria in the Hermel district, so it is assumed that the quantities are delivered to private stations and not to stations. Company stations are sold to Syrian traders at a price of up to $ 6.50 a can, so the Syrian trader returns and sells on the black market. With 25 thousand Syrian pounds, and sometimes its price reaches 30 thousand, with the support and protection of one of the de facto authority parties in the north of the Bekaa, the window in Syria and on the borders. The source said: “The high demand from gasoline smugglers started last Thursday, to facilitate and protect the authority in the north of Bekaa, for smugglers known by name.”

Since yesterday morning, most gas stations have lifted the hoses, refraining from selling gasoline and diesel, while workers at other stations where gasoline is available have adopted dropper sales, so they can secure the material for the The vast majority, in the west of Bekaa, the oil stations approved the sale of 10 thousand pounds. In Rashaya, they adopted a system of 20 thousand or 15 liters maximum. Also in Zahle, as soon as the stations lifted their hoses, citizens rushed intensely to get fuel for their cars, fearing that the crisis would prolong and disrupt their businesses.

Ahmed Moussa from West Bekaa says that, contrary to his custom, he waited his turn at one of the West Bekaa stations for about a third of an hour and the station worker refused to fill the car’s tank with more than 15,000 pounds. Moussa comments: “It is natural to be afraid of the fuel crisis, as it is catastrophic in the absence of public transport, which reduces the weight of the gasoline crisis.”

The owner of Sabcoil Oil Company, Samir Sader, explains to Nidaa Al Watan the reason for the gasoline crisis in Bekaa, saying: “Previously we warned that there was a shortage in the delivery of fuel and quantities of gasoline, and this is framed in the failure of the ruling political authority to manage all sectors in Lebanon. He continues: “Today we suffer a great shortage for delivering diesel and gasoline to the Zahle and Bekaa stations. Most of them lack gasoline and some have closed after selling their basic products.” He explains: “The Authority will not eliminate fuel subsidies, because that requires a cabinet meeting.” This strengthens the revolution … thus removing support loses existing power.