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Ramah Hammeh wrote in “Al-Akhbar”: For more than a week, the people of Baalbek-Hermel have spent long hours in queues in front of gas stations to get less than 4 liters of gasoline for ten thousand pounds, amid disputes , problems and discretion. While the station owners control quantities and prices, there is no semblance of surveillance by the relevant ministries and security agencies.
Many stations raised their hoses and preferred to close to customers, while the owners of the stations that opened their doors played to determine the number of liters and impose a price of more than 35 thousand pounds for a can of gasoline. They are hiding behind the crisis of delivering “limited rations” of gasoline from the Zahrani refinery, while the market is thirsty and the terminals are empty.
The owner of a fuel station in the city of Baalbek indicated that the absence of supervision by the Ministry of Economy, the Consumer Protection Authority and the security services in charge of verifying the quantities received has led the owners of the stations to fall into the trap of financial temptations provided by merchants and smugglers from the Bekaa and the North, as the station owner is offered to sell his share as soon as it is received. The refinery “and its land, without incurring the costs of transporting it to the Bekaa and emptying it into the station’s tanks, at attractive prices of up to 44,000 pounds per tank.” He remarked that “a large number of station owners sell their daily rations at the refinery, which reduces the amount of gasoline that reaches the Baalbek-Hermel and Bekaa stations, as well as the continuation of smuggling into Syria, albeit at a rate less than a few days ago, after the measures taken by the army. ” He noted that “the appearance of merchants from the north to buy gasoline from the owners of the Bekaa stations is evidence of the activity of smuggling operations from the north to Syria.”
Source: News
