NewsWhore
05-26-2008, 03:50 PM
The government and the transport unions are at each other's throats over the proposed changes to the government subsidy on diesel fuel, and the RD$8.40 increase in the price of a gallon of diesel fuel. The drivers are meeting to discuss plans for significant fare increases, and the government is threatening to remove the subsidies if this takes place. According to Melanio Paredes, the Minister of Industry and Commerce, if the unions introduce a new fare increase without government authorization, he will be forced to remove the subsidy on millions of gallons of diesel fuel distributed to these same unions. Drivers' leader Ramon Perez Figuereo told the government in so many words: "Go ahead, take it away, or find some sort of solution by Wednesday..." The head of the government's Land Transport Office (OTTT), Franklin Beltre, warned that any unauthorized fare increase would expose the unions to penalties.
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