After the first petrol stations were closed in Croatia, there is a fear that the same scenario could happen in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Abolish excise taxes
While the government in our country remains deaf to the cries and refuses to abolish excise taxes on fuel, the average price of a liter of fuel is 3.66 BAM, approaching the amount of four marks.
Citizens, who already have shallow pockets, are turning to alternative means of transportation. On the other hand, petrol station owners resent the purchase prices of fuel, which are equal to the selling prices, and face losses in business.
Director of Tioil company Tihomir Matosevic, owner of 40 gas stations in BiH, told Avaz that the situation is getting worse.
“Everyone says that we are oilmen, but we can’t influence anything. In Bosnia, too, there will soon be closures like in Croatia, because it can happen that we buy goods more expensive than we sell them at the pump, there are so many fluctuations in prices that it becomes impossible. What used to change the price in half a year, today it changes in one day,” said Matosevic.
In court
Soon, he will also go to court because of the inappropriate behavior of an inspection officer.
“During the control of the margins brought by the state, an inspector came and said: “What is it to pay him?” Can an inspector come to the foreman at the pump who takes care of 12 employed people and from whom the state collects its money and say “what’s the point of paying him”? It is a tribute,” said Matosevic.
Sufficient quantities
Senahid Lemes, director of the “Selex” pumps, told Avaz that they have sufficient quantities of fuel and emphasized that the market is unpredictable and that it is impossible to make any forecasts.
“We lowered the prices, we have guaranteed quantities and there will be no shortage,” Lemes said briefly.
