Cuban military company CIMEX on Saturday announced new prices for gasoline and diesel for the state sector and private airlines that match the task order, which will go into effect across Cuba on Feb. 1.
Prices, now expressed in Cuban pesos, range from 14.66 per liter of 83 octane motor gasoline to 20.27 per liter of 100 octane motor gasoline. For its part, the regular diesel costs 13.99 and the special 15.12 per liter.
The new prices, according to the note on the company’s Facebook wall, apply “to self-employed persons providing the service of freight transport, passengers in regular transport mode or both services” and must be paid for with magnetic cards.
“The takeover can take place using magnetic cards by the holders of the Transport Operation License (LOT). Those using the band cards authorized by FINCIMEX SA for the purchase of fuel in the service center network must have sufficient cash liquidity deposited in their fiscal bank accounts, allowing them to make payment for the fuel that may be consumed, said bank, before the end of January 2021, ”the note said.
In their own profile on the social network CIMEX, several boatmen complained about the measure. “Diesel, for example, cost 8CUP, now it costs 13.99. In addition to the fact that they have tripled in price from the punch to the engine oil or a minimum of maintenance. On the street, quite little is charged for all the expenses generated”, Yosvany Brito noted.
Juan Antonio Roque, for his part, pointed out that “for a private carrier the fuel costs are the lowest. You just have to consider the price of tires, batteries, which sometimes have to be replaced once a year, filters oil or petroleum, the oil. , that’s 75 pesos per liter, and why are you talking about the rest of the engine parts and others. I am not a skipper, but a mechanic, and I can tell you well that this business is no longer as profitable as a few year ago. “
Faced with complaints from some forum members about the prices charged by private taxis, Pavel Rivero said, “People talk without knowing, they just get their ‘bills’ for the price of gasoline, but that’s the least. That’s not The case. Think the state doesn’t sell us anything (in national currency). We have to pay everything at exorbitant prices and they demand of us as if they gave us everything. “