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Demand increase gas distribution racks community
Written by Anggie Martínez - Photos: Edgar Azócar / Miguel Frontado
Monday, November 22, 2010

The queues at the filling plant is maintained, so that citizens urge the authorities to expedite the installation of additional retail centers in communities and increase the number of units for each

Ciudad Guayana .- The last year's holiday season was marked by long lines outside the gas filling plants, unfortunately this year the situation could be repeated.
Preparation for family consumption and sale of dishes such as ham and bread hallaca, shoot domestic gas consumption, causing the number of people outside of schools to triple the filling to avoid this situation the Government's proposal are communal shelves.

However, residents of communities with at least one of these schools agree that "fall short" to cover all the demand as expressed Clara Benitez, of the Sun Vista community

"Many of my neighbors come out to sell food at this time taking advantage of people are shopping on the street, but must go through hell to buy gas," Benitez told.

Regional authorities have made it known that the long queues that are set on the outskirts of the centers were generated by filling a gap in the fleet of vehicles responsible for distributing the cylinders to households and private outlets.

Another condition that causes congestion in the service is the shortage of bottles, which lengthened the process of waiting for each cylinder that came should be subject to hydrostatic testing before being filled.

These internal failures will have to add that while shelving community projects have been implemented in several communities, they handle an average of 10 to 20 cylinders, resulting in insufficient to communities.

"We know that we must double the working day and are in staff selection process," they said in past statements. However, the failures persist, and since December has become routine to see young people, adults and seniors from the early hours of the morning trying to buy the product.

Consequently, citizenship requires an improvement in service and to expedite the production of cylinders when they undertake activities in plants Thongs, located in the industrial area of Maturin, and its subsidiary Bomveca, both industries nationally recognized as major manufacturers of this product and add to the growing list of companies nationalized.

Although communal racks located near the Chirica filling plant has increased the release of the product, the more time displaying the sign "No gas."


Other strategies

Along with the shelves, the Government has been working for several years with the installation of gas pipeline networks for communities Unare. But the date is unknown completion of the project and in the meantime, more and more people are joining the queues.

Increase gas production and distribution has been another of the strategies proposed by the State, for it identified the need to establish a double shift, for which members would benefit from the Ribas Mission has been prepared and were the first to be considered to be admitted companies.

It has also been established to combat speculation in which many traders incurred the service. And although this information was reported by the media on several occasions, the authorities in this area claimed to have no specific complaints about this and would welcome any irregularities for what they offer toll-free 0800-Bottle (0800-2662662).

Regional authorities have made it known that the population growth and limited installed capacity and Tropigas Vengas companies, which account for 60 percent of domestic supply and were nationalized in 2007 - also generated in the service deficit.

"The production is maintained, to fill the tanks are coming, but remember that these private companies were badly damaged and the investment and effort is great," said the spokesperson.

Goals

In August this year the Minister of Popular Power for Energy and Petroleum and PDVSA president Rafael Ramirez, said "we now have shelves and 2316 year-end target is 5000 all over the country. We want to avoid private intermediary, which applies to our cylinders speculation. We have affordable prices. In many parts of the country the intermediary prices doubled. " However, the tails show the approaching end of the year and there is still a difficult task to accomplish.