The mayor of Florida, Rodolfo Carter, announced that the municipality will take steps to commercialize gas at a lower cost and requested the participation of other municipalities to support the bill that is in the Mining and Energy Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
“Our duty is not to compete with individuals, but to protect the right of individuals and each family so that their quality of life does not suffer from exaggerated prices or they can defend themselves against the option that some companies collude and alter the values of their products, ”explained the mayor of La Florida.
“There is fixation and opacity in the setting of gas prices. We value the first step taken by the Municipality of Chiguayante. In Florida we have taken that example and we will advance along the same lines, because our neighbors know what it is like to arrive in winter paying $ 28,000 for a gas bottle, which makes many choose between heating their food or showering with hot water “Carter emphasized.
The mayor added that “We are going to enter into the Enap and the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office a request in order to become suppliers to be able to sell the gas cylinder at cost, in this reality that affects the middle class of our country so much.”
On Florida, since the pandemic of the covid-19 and for free, the Municipality has delivered more than 500 thousand gas tickets, reaching all the homes of the commune.
On the direct sale of gas, the mayor Sump explained that Florida It already has a warehouse and has the capacity to distribute trucks and the necessary personnel.
Protect people
“Our duty is not to compete with individuals, but to protect the right of individuals and each family so that their quality of life does not suffer from exaggerated prices or they can defend themselves against the option that some companies collude and alter the values of their products”Carter noted.
According to what was raised by the mayor, “We do not want or intend to replace the market. In La Florida we share the same demand of millions of Chilean families: we want a free and fair market that punishes abuses, encourages entrepreneurs and favors people’s quality of life ”.
