A member of the Syndicate of Station Owners, George Al-Barakis, indicated that lowering fuel prices is our request before others, because it increases consumption and develops sales at stations, but lowering prices making stations lose more than 80,000 pounds for each can of petrol because the Ministry of Energy today issued a price installer calculating the price Exchange the dollar according to a banking platform, according to the circular issued yesterday by the Banque du Liban. However, the stations never managed to obtain the dollar from the banks and were forced to buy it at the exchange offices at a price higher than 44,500 pounds.
He appealed to the Governor of the Central Bank and the Association of Banks, “either immediately open the doors of the banks so that the stations sell dollars in exchange, or inform the Ministry of Energy, today before tomorrow, that it is not able to comply and which excludes filling stations, and the schedule must be reissued according to the mechanism that was approved in the past, i.e. on the price of parallel markets, where we actually insure the dollar. an unpleasant crisis on the night of the holidays.
