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Venezuela: No
Expropriation of Gas Stations
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Venezuela: No
Expropriation of Gas
Stations
CARACAS -
Parliamentarian sources
denied on Tuesday that
the Liquid Fuel Internal
Market Reorganization
Organic Law, currently
discussed in the
National Assembly,
includes expropriation
of service stations.
Energy and Mining
Parliamentary Commission
Chair Angel Rodriguez
said they would
implement greater
participation in the
activity by people
associations, but with
new service stations or
transfer of some State
properties.
He told press the law
does not include
forceful transfer of the
service stations to the
communal councils, as
some media have said.
What has been planned in
a short term is
registration of all gas
stations with the brand
PDV (Petroleos de
Venezuela), which dies
not mean changing the
proprietor of the
station, land,
infrastructure or
adjacent places.
Referring to motivations
about the profit
statement, he
highlighted the
bottleneck in
transferring fuel and
how minor delays in the
load are magnified as
more serious problems in
service stations.
He said that for this
activity it is necessary
to perform sales of
liquid fuel carriers
(tankers) and other
means that many times
are not carried out in
the necessary
magnitudes.
Increasing State
participation in the
chain will improve
control of fuel
distribution, reducing
fuel smuggling, which in
the country's border
areas reaches around
27,000 daily barrels.
This includes the
activities of road,
aquatic and short haul
liquid fuel
transportation, he said.
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