The Cuban military corporation CIMEX announced on Saturday the new prices for gasoline and diesel for the state sector and private carriers corresponding to the task of the ordinance, which will enter into force on February 1 throughout Cuba.
Prices, now expressed in Cuban pesos, range from 14.66 per liter of 83 octane gasoline to 20.27 per liter of 100 octane gasoline. In turn, regular diesel will cost 13.99 and special 15 , 12 per liter.
The new prices, according to the note posted on the corporation’s Facebook wall, applies to “self-employed persons providing the freight service, to passengers in the” regular service “mode or to both services” and must be paid using magnetic cards.
“The purchase can be made with the use of magnetic cards by holders of the transport operating license (LOT). Those who use the tape cards authorized by FINCIMEX SA to purchase fuel in the service center network must have sufficient cash liquidity deposited in their tax bank accounts, which allows them to pay for the fuel authorized to consume, the bank said, before the end of January 2021 “, it was mentioned in the note.
In their own profile on the CIMEX social network, several men complained about the measure. “Diesel, for example, costs 8 buckets, now it costs 13.99. In addition to the fact that from punch to engine oil or minimal maintenance have tripled in price. It is charged quite a little on the street for all expenses which are generated, “said Yosvany Brito.
For his part, Juan Antonio Roque stressed that “for a private carrier the cost of fuel is the lowest of its costs. You only have to consider the price of tires, batteries, which sometimes have to be changed once a year, oil filters or petroleum , the oil, which is 75 pesos per liter, and why talk about the rest of the engine parts, etc. I’m not a boatman, but I’m a mechanic and I can tell you correctly that this business is not more is as profitable as now several years. “
In the face of complaints from some forum members about the prices charged by private taxis, Pavel Rivero stated: “People talk without knowing, they receive their“ bills ”only for the price of petrol, but this is the lowest. do you think that the state does not sell us (in the national currency) anything. We have to pay everything at exaggerated prices and they ask us as if they gave us everything. “