Mexico City /
Almost a year after the publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) of the so-called anti-huachicol decree by the Ministry of Energy (Sener), the member of the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE)Walter Julian Angel believes that The impact is minimal in terms of fuel adulteration.
“What happens is that there are a number of products that are not intended for sale as gasoline and if they have any problems with not being able to introduce or import them, they speak with Sener. Personally, as a commissioner, I don’t see a drastic change. I think it’s an organized industry that found a way to get around the restriction,” he told MILLENNIUM.
This measure Restricts the import of certain goods (mineral fuels, mineral oils and their distillation products; bituminous materials; mineral waxes) which are susceptible to mixing with gasoline, with the aim of combating the illicit fuel market and smuggling.
The commissioner considered that the problem will not have a conclusion until they reach an agreement between the regulator and the regulated in the industry in general. He added that these adulterated fuels They are not sold clandestinely, but rather reach the regulated market through service stations with permits.
“I think that from that perspective we need to put a stop to it and re-do new regulatory agreements, we need to get people involved in the agreements, promote new measures, speak from the social media as containment measures to be able to mitigate. It is a very big problem,” he said.
The CRE commissioner commented that in the fuel adulteration They are intervening in a well-established and well-built industry with large facilities. “We have been on top of them. On one occasion we took aerial photographs of at least 50 tanker trucks installed on a property, but the information was leaked and they were all gone in one night.”
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