For those who thought they were escaping the clutches of José Manuel Soria and his energy reform, by having a gas supply in their home or business, we have bad news. The PP minister, in charge of bleeding the population with energy consumption and ending alternative energies, has been negotiating for months with gas supply companies and threatens to act on taxes on them and the final price.
It is only a matter of months before this comes to light, the truth is that Industria has already sat down with gas companies to "promote a cost adjustment. According to European gas statistics, Eurostat places the Spanish State at the head of prices in the Eurozone, with Enagás, Gas Natural Fenosa, Naturgas, Gas Madrid and Redexis being the main suppliers today. And in the Canary Islands, exclusively DISA Gas, the competition of the multinational oil company Repsol, which seems to have a large part of the government of Spain and, above all, those of the Ministry of Industry and Energy on its payroll.
According to data made public on May 28 by the Competition Commission, the gas tariff deficit between January and March of this year amounted to 222 million euros, 17% more than in the same period of 2013. The final imbalance of last year, which amounted to 326 million euros, will be passed on to the 2014 bill.
DISA is the pioneer of gas supply in the State and in the Canary Islands, starting this work in 1954. Since then, according to themselves, it "has been expanding its activity to all the islands of the Canary Archipelago, currently having storage, packaging and distribution plants for LPG in the seven Canary Islands" and monopolizing the market exclusively.
Most of it is butane gas, in 11 or 13kg propane cylinders, these being the products that most reach the citizens. To which are added the 35 or 40Kg propane cylinders. of butane, for industrial use. It also owns the distribution network, covering the entire territory of the archipelago and subjecting the user to prices without competition that are equal, whether it is home delivery or purchase in a warehouse.
Recently they have started with bulk supply, which DISA carries out in the islands of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, of propane, and bulk butane in the island of La Palma. Regarding piped gas, DISA supplies propane gas to various industries, urbanizations, residential buildings, hotels and shopping centers in the islands of Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria.
On the other hand, in 2003 they began to supply Autogas to the bus fleets of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Guaguas Municipales) and Tenerife (TITSA), in this case, liquid propane gas.
It would be ignorant to think that with gas consumption someone was going to escape the abuse of energy consumers that the Spanish government, led by Minister Soria, is carrying out. It was only a matter of time, although it has always been noticeable that it was rising little by little.
What keeps me in ignorance is how, after so much mistreatment and abuse, after having destroyed the PECAN, that Canarian Energy Plan, alternative energies, in this land that is an unparalleled enclave for the exploitation of wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. Soria, still does not have the true consideration of persona non grata in the archipelago. I don't understand the endurance that my People have!
I am aware that the official qualification has to come from a State, a sovereign State, not with the "sovereignty" or the lack of it that the archipelago has. But, at the same time, I am also aware that the title of "adopted son" is acquired by a person before it is granted, for their merits.
Well, I am of the idea that Soria, without being granted it, has earned the title of "persona non grata" and, even if it is only symbolically and has no real effect or becomes a declaration of war, I ask loudly that this consideration be made public by every person, organization or institution of this archipelago so mistreated and ignored by this element, to which calling it "person" is already too much.
Pedro González Cánovas, member of ANC
