New Venezuela fuel payment system gets off to slow start

Reuters ^ | 9/24/18 | Shaylim Castro

[Libloather]

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The new system entails Venezuelans applying for and using a state-backed digital identification document to pay for fuel, with the government providing gas stations with wireless devices that will read the card.

Leftist Maduro has said the system will limit the cross-border trading of gas, which is so heavily subsidized that drivers often do not even bother paying for it. Last week, he said the new payment system would roll out on Monday.

**SNIP**

“To me this system is garbage,” said Mercedes Fernandez, 41, a systems engineer. “We don’t even know how much it’s going to cost, or how we’re going to pay.”

Fernandez shortly thereafter filled her tank and paid for the fuel with a bank note worth 0.01 bolivars, currently the smallest denomination of legal tender.

[Libloather]

The combination of fixed fuel prices and annual inflation now topping 200,000 percent has made gasoline so cheap as to be effectively free. For the amount it costs to buy one kilo (2.2 pounds) of cheese, a driver could fill their tank 20,000 times.

I should go and fill up down there...

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t think the Venezuelans can fill their empty bellies with gasoline.

[Lurkinanloomin]

“Glorious revolution” is how one of the Kenyanesian Usurper’s toadies described Venezuela.

They intended to do that to US.

[P.O.E.]

Have they tried meth?

http://cbsnews10.com/erie-pennsylvania-woman-high-on-meth-dies-after-pumping-gasoline-into-her-anus/

[I want the USA back]

Just implementing communism, one piece at a time.

[PLMerite]

“Erie, Pennsylvania: Woman high on meth dies after pumping gasoline into her anus”

Obviously she mistook the gas hose for the compressed air hose.

http://www.japankyo.com/2018/07/wacky-weird-interesting-crazy-japanese-news-compressed-air-gun-up-butt-anus-rectum-cause-death-arrest-kill-coworker-ibaraki-japan-just-a-prank/

[spokeshave2]

So where does the gasoline come from....?...I read that the oil refinery lacks maintenance and spare parts....and the oil they have is heavy thick crude.

Anyone know.

At least they can stock up on Molotov cocktails.

[j.havenfarm]

Wow. I’ve never realized just how bad it can be to be the butt of someone else’s joke

[unixfox]

"We don’t even know how much it’s going to cost, or how we’re going to pay.”

Gee, where have we heard that before?

[catnipman]

“The combination of fixed fuel prices and annual inflation now topping 200,000 percent has made gasoline so cheap as to be effectively free. For the amount it costs to buy one kilo (2.2 pounds) of cheese, a driver could fill their tank 20,000 times.”

typical nonsensical pricing in a command economy ...

[bert]

Trinadad Tobago?

They have refineries bt no crude