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SANTO DOMINGO. – The Industry and Commerce Ministry today warned the owners of gasoline stations grouped in Anadegas that it could take control of all their pumps if they continue with the plan to create artificial shortages in the local market.

Industry made the warning after Anadegas leaders said that they stopped re-supplying to pressure the authorities to allow them to sell propane gas in their diesel and gasoline stations.

Last week Anadegas president Juan Ignacio Espaillat called on the group’s entire 500-station membership to stop resupplying with fuel from the refinery until they ran out, aimed at letting the authorities feel their weight in the fuels market.

The Government however said disorder won’t be allowed from any sector, and that several laws allow it to take control of the gas stations if they fail to abide by the legal requirements.

SOURCE: diariolibre.com.do

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Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 11 Aug 2008 12:12 PM
From: United States
It's good to know that the government will prevent profiteering and the scalping on gas prices. But, to threaten to take over gas pumps? That's a little over the top. A bit dictatorial. What will they do then, have the government sell gasoline? Confiscate real estate? Natinonalize those gas stations? This is the begining of the good old days. When the state owned "everything". NEDOCA, PIDOCA, CDA, etc. Let's not let the situation escalate to that, again.
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Written by: Belial, 11 Aug 2008 12:45 PM
From: United States, Texas
The Industry and Commerce Ministry is the despicable halot and house of ill-repute of the US imperialists, exercising hegemonic control over the DR .

The ministry and minister are completely owned by Chevron which is using CAFTA trying to ruin the Dominican bourgeoisie in the oil transport sector and also trying to bust the workers' union and impoverish the union members.

The industry and commerce ministry spits, pisses, and otherwise excretes on Dominican labor and commercial law, touting the US imperialist-drafted CAFTA as the supreme and inviolable law of the Dominican Republic.

At any given meeting with the degenerate industry and commerce minister, a vile imperialist animal, may falsely accuse representatives of the national bourgeoisie and Dominican workers of bribing him.

If prudence is exercised, no meeting with the imperialist scum enscounced in industry and commerce ministry should occur unless the meeting is recorded on video with audio.
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Written by: Belial, 11 Aug 2008 12:52 PM
From: United States, Texas
The imperialist tart, Industry and Commerce minister Melanio Paredes, is engaged in a campaign of intrigue aimed at transferring the assets of the local bourgeoisie in fuel supply and transport sector to the CAFTA-protected scum of imperialism.
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Written by: anthonyC, 11 Aug 2008 2:29 PM
From: United States
It is good to know that Free Enterprise is dead in the DR!
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Written by: Adrix, 12 Aug 2008 12:19 AM
From: United States
We are dealing with a subject of national security. The Constitution is clear that this merchandise can’t be used in any kind of strike. This is not an empty treat, but putting soldiers and civilians to dispatch the gasoline and give a substantial fine to the owners. Imagine that they make a strike just because they want to sell a product that is dispensed by other businesses. Is it legal their demands? May be, but it is illegal to stop the country creating a shortage of a vital ingredient as gas oil and gasoline.
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Written by: anthonyC, 12 Aug 2008 8:06 AM
From: United States
So it is ok for "workers" to strike causing gas shortages but not busnesses?
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