There are closed gas stations, there are long lines in those where they have the fuel and the lack of gasoline began to generate a social feeling of shortage that faces in response the denial of authority.
Government euphemisms not to call things by their name minimize a problem and make doubt the ability to solve something essential for all economic activity.
If it is true that there are gasoline, but there is no how to transport them, which reveals is Pemex’s impericia to which they are increasingly returning to a scheme of a failed monopoly.
In Mexico there are not all the gasoline that are consumed. Contrary to the official discourse of the A supplementary car, between 50 and 60% of these fuels are imported, even granting that the gasoline produced in Deer Park, in Texas, are local product.
The argument of the shortage, which they do not want to call shortages, is that the logistics failed to distribute the gasoline that is guarded in the deposits, because Pemex says that they decided to maintain at the same time the autotanques.
If the version in a certain, someone at the managerial level should lose their job immediately. However, there seems to be more fundamental reasons to understand why Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Nuevo León and Chiapas were left without those fuels.
Government information in Mexico is today more scarce than gasoline, but there are several factors that could be combined to explain why one of the most elementary chains of the operation of an economy today presents a serious failure.
Mexican populism fell into the temptation of controlled prices and Magna gasoline has a ceiling in its price that necessarily generates distortions in the market.
Among the multiple damage that leaves that controlled price, beyond the costs to the treasury, is the one that Pemex Logistics reported, yes, the division of decomposed trucks, which made known an “unpublished damage” of more than 12,000 million pesos in the first half of this year, because it must mobilize fuels without impacting the costs on the end user as it should be.
Another possible reason is the way the so -called “fiscal huachicol” and the brake that has involved the importation of gasoline through those illegal channels have been affected. Again, information is a very scarce good in Mexico, but a country like this has very low gasoline reserves can have effects on the availability of fuels due to these positive events.
It is a fact that this neo -statist regime has put obstacles to private companies to increase their capacities to expand their activities in the production and sale chain of gasoline.
And an additional cause that explains the moment of lack of fuel is the enormous debt that Pemex has with its suppliers which affects all activity related to that business, from the drilling of a well to the maintenance of a pipe.
The maromas that the government and its spokesmen give so that it does not speak of shortage only affects confidence and the lack of gasoline is a trigger for very serious problems.
