Given the shortage of gasoline, diesel, and liquefied petroleum gas that the country suffers, the Government of Las Tunas took the necessary measures to ensure the operation of key services, while attending to emergencies that may arise from the citizenry, the Vice Governor Yelenis Tornet Menéndez explained to the press.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- She reported that priorities were established in the supply of the diesel available to keep vehicles linked to fundamental services moving. "We are protecting, she exemplified, the taxi service for the transfer of hemodialysis patients."
About the supply of gasoline, Tornet Menéndez said, school buses, hearses, and tourist cars also have priority. Regarding the assortment in the service centers for private vehicles, she expressed that as long as it was possible, the sale was maintained in previous days, depending on the stocks in the inventories at the 30 de Noviembre service center. "We set, she specified, a limit figure because we cannot sell everything that the population demands and it was being sold at a rate of five liters for motorcycles and 10 for cars."
For the past two days, she admitted, the amounts of gasoline weren't even enough to meet that standard. However, she assured that "once we are above the figure that constitutes a reserve for the Government for the attention to basic services, we would likewise be restoring that controlled sale."
Tornet Menéndez stressed that within the fuel stocks, the allocations for taxis and motorcycle taxis that provide important services to health and passenger transfer are maintained. The Government here aspires to restore the differentiated sale of fuel to doctors with private cars. "It must also be said that related to the population, everything that constitutes family problems, medical appointments, we have treated them in a differentiated way," she said.
The deputy governor of Las Tunas finally declared that ", we will continue to attend all those people who have a specific situation, and we will give them the fuel they carry so that they can make that trip, because we will maintain ourselves during these days with fuel limitations."
ABOUT LIQUEFIED GAS
José Luis Mora, the director of the Territorial Division of Fuel Marketing in Las Tunas, had insisted on the Radio that, because of the situation described by the Ministry of Energy and Mines, the priority will be given to the supply of vehicles or buildings that guarantee the provision of the key services for the population, such as health, education, and tasks related to the sugar harvest. "There can be no despair or uncertainty, no vital activity in the province will be paralyzed," he assured.
