Massa blames oil companies for fuel “hit”

The Argentine Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, attacked the oil companies this Tuesday for the appearance “suddenly” of fuel after several days with a lack of supply at service stations.

“What I do want to say is that, without any decision having been made yet, how suddenly the fuel”, said the official candidate for the Argentine Presidency in statements to the press upon leaving the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), where he held a meeting with representatives of the manufacturing world.

Massa expressed his surprise with the sudden arrival of fuel at the stations in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA), which includes the city of Buenos Aires and 40 towns in the Buenos Aires suburbs, which allows us to affirm that the situation is beginning to normalize.

At midnight this Tuesday (03:00 GMT) the deadline given by the Argentine Executive for the normalization of fuel supply in the country ends, while the period of price maintenance ends, frozen since last August, after the holding of primary elections.

“What I want to say to the Argentines is that, no matter how much (the companies) try to force an increase in the 40%“I’m not going to allow it.”said Massa, who confirmed that he will meet with the companies throughout the afternoon and that tonight he will “Evaluation”.

The head of the Treasury Palace expressed that, beyond the joy caused by the exports of the oil companies and the number of jobs generated in the exploitation of the unconventional hydrocarbon formation of Vaca Muerta, “They cannot take the pockets of the Argentines.”

Unlike the images recorded throughout the weekend, normality at service stations has become general and there are hardly any lines of cars waiting.

The main refinery operating companies in Argentina presented this Monday to the Government an action plan to normalize the supply of fuel in the domestic market.

The plan was presented in a meeting with the Argentine Secretary of Energy, Flavia Royon, by YPF, controlled by the Argentine State, the American Axion Energy, the Swiss Trafigura and Raizén – an association between Shell and Grupo Cosan -, all with refineries under their control. control.

In a joint statement, these four oil companies indicated that their action plan seeks to reinforce “full supply” in the network of service stations and “recover operating stock levels throughout the chain until we return to normal.”

The Minister of Economy had accused oil producing companies of having retained crude oil without sending it to the refineries to favor its export to the detriment of domestic supply.