"The rich who have mansions by the sea should not receive government subsidies." Geraldo Rivera
media call it "gasolinazo" because they seek to pressure the government to suspend the adjustments in the price of gasoline. In my view, however, these increases are modest and should gradually rise.
This past May 14 Magna gasoline rose 8 cents to fetch 9.16 pesos per liter. Is an increase of 0.72 percent. It can hardly be called a "gasolinazo" even though the increase is the fifth year. Assuming that the price of Magna climbed 8 cents per month for 12 months, rising would amount to about 96 cents, 8.7 percent above the level of 09.08 pesos per liter in April.
More than this increase, which lags far behind the increases that have occurred in the world, I am concerned that the Government was doing damage to the environment and the economy of the poorest Mexicans with a petrol subsidy of 100 billion pesos in the 2011, three times what was originally planned for this year.
The main damage done by subsidizing gasoline is also promoting greater use of this fuel. The advanced countries have had to pay higher prices for gasoline in recent years due to increasing crude oil prices and this has served to significantly reduce the use of gasoline. One consequence is the reduction of emissions of air pollutants at a time when this is considered essential to reduce global warming.
Mexico has been in the opposite direction and becoming more pollution. In 2006, according to figures from Pemex, the country sold 601 000 Magna 800 barrels of gasoline each day. March 2011 reached a level of 755 thousand 200 barrels per day. This is an increase of 25 percent in just five years in gasoline cheaper and more polluting. This increase automatically cancels all that the Government is making efforts to reduce carbon emissions to atmosphere.
The problem of gasoline subsidies, however, is not limited to pollution. In fact, this subsidy represents a regressive transfer of resources from poorer to richer.
More than 40 percent of the population of our country lives in poverty. A very high percentage in this group is completely devoid of its own assets. In fact, his only real wealth is the part you played in the country's oil resources, which supposedly belong equally to all Mexicans.
Instead of receiving dividends as shareholders, Pemex could be distributed among the Mexicans, which do more to help you have less, the Treasury Department is using 100 billion dollars of income from oil monopoly, three times what it spent on the Ministry of Public Security, to subsidize motorists, who represent 20 percent richer society .
One of the reasons why Mexico has so many poor people is that we have built a hacienda system that robs the poor to subsidize the rich. In the case of gasoline subsidies that transfer is not only extremely regressive, but also fills the skies of pollution. Far from challenging the modest increases in the price of gasoline, we should demand a true gasolinazo, leading prices of the fuel to levels currently prevailing in our trading partners. Tenure
Eruviel Avila, the PRI candidate to the State Government of Mexico, promised to eliminate vehicular tenure if he wins the election next July 3. This joins a populist and regressive. Remove the holding means those who can not buy a car to subsidize the services that are provided to motorists, much more prosperous than they are. Sergio Sarmiento
www.sergiosarmiento.com
media call it "gasolinazo" because they seek to pressure the government to suspend the adjustments in the price of gasoline. In my view, however, these increases are modest and should gradually rise.
This past May 14 Magna gasoline rose 8 cents to fetch 9.16 pesos per liter. Is an increase of 0.72 percent. It can hardly be called a "gasolinazo" even though the increase is the fifth year. Assuming that the price of Magna climbed 8 cents per month for 12 months, rising would amount to about 96 cents, 8.7 percent above the level of 09.08 pesos per liter in April.
More than this increase, which lags far behind the increases that have occurred in the world, I am concerned that the Government was doing damage to the environment and the economy of the poorest Mexicans with a petrol subsidy of 100 billion pesos in the 2011, three times what was originally planned for this year.
The main damage done by subsidizing gasoline is also promoting greater use of this fuel. The advanced countries have had to pay higher prices for gasoline in recent years due to increasing crude oil prices and this has served to significantly reduce the use of gasoline. One consequence is the reduction of emissions of air pollutants at a time when this is considered essential to reduce global warming.
Mexico has been in the opposite direction and becoming more pollution. In 2006, according to figures from Pemex, the country sold 601 000 Magna 800 barrels of gasoline each day. March 2011 reached a level of 755 thousand 200 barrels per day. This is an increase of 25 percent in just five years in gasoline cheaper and more polluting. This increase automatically cancels all that the Government is making efforts to reduce carbon emissions to atmosphere.
The problem of gasoline subsidies, however, is not limited to pollution. In fact, this subsidy represents a regressive transfer of resources from poorer to richer.
More than 40 percent of the population of our country lives in poverty. A very high percentage in this group is completely devoid of its own assets. In fact, his only real wealth is the part you played in the country's oil resources, which supposedly belong equally to all Mexicans.
Instead of receiving dividends as shareholders, Pemex could be distributed among the Mexicans, which do more to help you have less, the Treasury Department is using 100 billion dollars of income from oil monopoly, three times what it spent on the Ministry of Public Security, to subsidize motorists, who represent 20 percent richer society .
One of the reasons why Mexico has so many poor people is that we have built a hacienda system that robs the poor to subsidize the rich. In the case of gasoline subsidies that transfer is not only extremely regressive, but also fills the skies of pollution. Far from challenging the modest increases in the price of gasoline, we should demand a true gasolinazo, leading prices of the fuel to levels currently prevailing in our trading partners. Tenure
Eruviel Avila, the PRI candidate to the State Government of Mexico, promised to eliminate vehicular tenure if he wins the election next July 3. This joins a populist and regressive. Remove the holding means those who can not buy a car to subsidize the services that are provided to motorists, much more prosperous than they are. Sergio Sarmiento
www.sergiosarmiento.com
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Subsidizing gasoline as the zero rate on food and medicine is the worst injustice that makes the Mexican tax system against the poor. Unfortunately a group of populist demagogues, especially the PRI, PRD and PT, continue to press for such subsidies remain widespread. A general allowance has the most benefits, not the poor. Subsidies should be directly not widespread.
gasolinazo And if we speak, the PRI did in the 70's, 80's and 90's these if they were gasolinazo. With increases of 30, 50 and up to 100% overnight for another, without warning. Now they are small, and throughout the year do not reach even 10%. And yet we are subsidized gasoline. Enough of the mentality Third, we hope that all the resolution of the government, give us all free. Reflect on it.