Several complaints have been registered in Venezuelaspecifically in the state Zuliato the west of the country, that at least six cars have caught fire in less than a weekproduct of the use of adulterated fuel that is being sold in the service stations of the state PDVSAin the different areas of the entity, including the capital, maracaibo.
Such is the recent case of Isabella Baticciniwho was driving his vehicle regularly and had just dumped fuel, when he noticed that another driver started honking and waving at him because he had noticed that the car was on fire from the bottom.
The woman got out of the car to try to understand what was happening, but in a matter of seconds his car was consumed in flamesaccording to local media reports, The National.
He Fire Department of the city of Maracaibo He arrived at the scene to attend to the fire and managed to fight the flames. However Baticcini suffered the total loss of his car.
According to the complaints, hehe explosions of vehicles have even been recorded in the vicinity of service stations, once they leave to refuelas was the case of one of the fires that was reported this week at the El Portal gas station, located on Fuerzas Armadas avenue in Maracaibo.
With the six explosions this week there are already more than 20 so far this yearonly in the state of Zulia, product of the use of fuel in poor condition, which has generated shock among users because gasoline is purchased at state-owned service stations PDVSAunder the control of the regime of Nicolas Maduro.
In addition, citizens have also denounced that not only are fires one of the consequences that are affected by adulterated fuel, but also that vehicle spare parts also end up damaged by the same problem and the worst thing is that in The dealers do not cover the warranty of the auto parts when it is for bad gasolinethis directly affects the pocket of people.
Jesus Castillo Molledadirector of the Polianalitica agency, dedicated to monitoring political events in Venezuela, said that people would be spending between 30 and 200 dollars to repair the cars because of the poor quality of gasoline.
In addition angel suarezan electronic engineer in automation and process control, assured that one of the reasons that would be generating the problems in the cars of the Zulians is because high sulfur content in fuel that is arriving at service stations, as reported by the media The newspaper.
In the midst of the strong wave of complaints that have been generated throughout the Zulia by the fires and the cars affected, the regime of Nicolas MaduroThrough their political propaganda apparatus, they circulated a video of the state-owned PDVSA promoting an unusual solution to the problem that afflicts people.
In the images, it is possible to see several civil servants of PDVSA as police officers, giving citizens the gasoline to smell in mineral water containers, so that they can “verify the quality” of the product.
“This is the beginning of something positive”says one of the Chavista officials in the supposed experiment.
“In this way we can highlight the work that PDVSA has been doing to guarantee the quality, distribution and commercialization of fuel in all corners of the country,” they say in the video.
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