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SANTO DOMINGO.- Truckers and passenger vehicle drives will begin to receive the one million gallons of diesel with a 32 peso Government-subsidy  today, after Industry and Commerce minister Melanio Paredes signed the regulation to apply the agreement.

The transport union umbrella group Cesitrán which includes the Conatra, CNTU, Mochotrán and Fenatrano, said the subsidy on the one million gallons of diesel will compensate for losses on the purchase of  more than three million gallons, as well as price rises on tires, lubricants, spare parts and others.

Ramon Perez Figuereo, Antonio Marte and Alfredo Linares (Cambita), presidents of the CNTU, Conatra and Mochotrán, said the subsidized diesel they’ll buy at $102 per gallon hadn’t been dispatched to them because the Paredes was out of the country.

"Our intention isn’t to push aside any sector, what interests us is that the diesel gets to the drivers at $102 per gallon, regardless of who supplies it," said the CNTU’s president.

Marte said the decree establishes that the seven-day deadline to apply the regulation on the compensation for diesel expires tomorrow Tuesday.

Perez also said they’ll continue discussions to apply the electronic chips for the fare subsidy for university students, the installation of equipment to use natural gas and the dual-fuel use, with propane-diesel.

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Written by: snap3400, 24 Jan 2008 7:48 AM
From: United States
These guys are something else.
Food prices keep going up along with many other comodities.But, conumers pay stays the same.
But the transportation Union gets subsidies
Written by: Evergreenamerica, 1 Apr 2008 1:39 PM
From: United States
I know trucking is the blood that flows through the veins of an economy. We at evergreenamerica.com have been doing what we can with our products that reduce fuel up to 20 % with a 1 time treatment.

We find that a trucker will spend more in fuel then the payments on his truck, personal automobile and their home. When a trucker spends between 40,000 and 120,000 US Dollars a year in fuel, a 20% savings is 8,000 to 24,000 per year. It can keep them in business.

An army without fuel looses the battle, consumers and businesses without products effects the whole economy. The first car's effects can be the start a traffic jam and the effects branch out in all directions.
Written by: juandelacruz, 18 Apr 2008 11:40 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Well, it is all business as usual politics. What i'm trying to say is that all administration have reproduced the same economic conditions, housing problems, unemployment, it is the same social crisis. Is any group out there able to present an alternative to the reproduction of the accumulation crisis? Can any political group call for a debate to change the nature of this society before all its contradictions and atagonisms exploit? Elections are just a way to stop us from addressing the real issues affecting our lives and how to solve them. Tell me: How are the candidates or their platform going to solve the situation of unemployment, that continuous growing? None of them talk about the fact that private property is the one who generates war, genocide, racism all over the world, homelessnes and many other defects of contemporary society. Look at the conditions of the proletariat in the United States, can anybody tell me that the essence of its economy conditions is different?
Written by: DONOTFLYAMERICANAIRLINESDR, 9 Jun 2008 9:31 PM
From: United States
I'm so tired of seeing all this losers "UNION LEADERS" asking for more subsideis........

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF IS NOT PROFITABLE TO DRIVE A F****** BUS. GET IN TO ANOTHER INDUSTRY. Or just simply GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Written by: corky01, 10 Dec 2008 7:41 AM
From: United States
Why not take the subsidies and invest in biofuels reactors and sugar cane production? Put some people to work.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10092526-54.html
Written by: abc200, 15 Feb 2009 5:27 PM
From: United Kingdom
Yes, less shipping, more local production,, more rail lines is an answer. Global warming will increase natural disasters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7890988.stm
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Written by: abc200, 22 Oct 2009 7:49 PM
From: United Kingdom
Passenger vehicle subsidies are good - makes buses more attractive and reduces the number of cars/motorcycles. There is also an argument for fuel subsidies for transport to remote regions.
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