Problems that we Venezuelans deal everyday with: GASOLINE CORRUPTION.

Hi guys! I made this post because I wanted to show you how in Venezuela something as ordinary as filling up your vehicle's gas tank is involved in problems and corruption; demonstrate this with photos and evidence the corruption that is experienced with gasoline in Venezuela. With real and physical evidence on the street.

Gasoline in Venezuela is extremely cheap, filling the tank of your car costs about 40-50 thousand Bolivares, the equivalent of 1 $ currently.

Here You fill the 45 liters of gas tank your car for only 1 $ while in the United States or Europe you spend 30 $ -50 $.
It sounds wonderful, but the reality is that there is a lot of corruption behind this.

In the border states of Venezuela, each car is assigned an electronic card with a chip that authorizes the owner of each vehicle to buy gasoline in the service pumps (you are not free to buy the amount you want the day you want freely). Each person has a quota to which they are assigned 40 liters of gas every two days and 8 liters of gasoline every two days.

Because gasoline is so cheap, there are many businesses and traps, people who take advantage of this to generate big profits. People fill their tanks completely and then travel to Colombia or Brazil (the two border Venezuela) and then sell gas at a higher price (gasoline contraband)

1. Motorized with his motorcycle's chip while the fireman puts the chip in the reader with the help of a tube.
2. Statal police officers without chips for gasoline, taking gasoline from the ambulance.

How do I know that they skipped the line and do not have a chip? They always come with authority direct to the firefighter and tell them to give gasoline at him, as if they were the owners of the bomb; and if they had a chip they would not behind the ambulance, they would be next to the other motorcycle, showing their chip properly.

Even the police and the national guard who are in charge of preventing the occurrence of unlawful acts when gassing, are the first to contribute to corruption, because they charge large sums of money to allow people to skip the line. Even the station's firemen charge money so that the cars and motorcycles without chips can put gasoline.

Police student waiting to skip the queue.

To be able to buy gasoline you must do BIG QUEUES, You can last more than 5 hours in them. people usually wait from 3 a.m. the previous day to be the first.

Let gifs load to see the queues, they are impressively long.

In this particular case the gasoline station was closed. The people had time waiting for the gasoline station to open, which was being filled.

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To avoid these queues, the people in the cars pay the firemen or the police to skip them.

The motorcycles simply arrive at the side of the gasoline hose and tell the firefighter that they do not have a chip, they ask him how much money they have to give him and he is paid after he take the gasoline. In this way:

These 4 people are also waiting to take gasoline from the car, while the other is taking gasoline from the car's quota.

1. Motorcycles with chip, legal. (They are not behind a car)
2. Motorcycles without a chip that pays to the gasoline man.

You will say, with or without a chip, people should be able to put gasoline as many times as they want, as a right.

The problem with this is that these people do not buy gasoline 1 time only, if not 4, 5, 6 times a day, making the queues get congested more and more and people who do not contribute with this corruption have to wait 5, 6 hours to buy gasoline ... when it should be something that is done in 10 minutes maximum.

Captured on camera paying the fireman.

In a queue we can find more than 200 vehicles, of which 60% or 70% sell gasoline at the border every day.

Venezuelans in border states work in this way as an alternative to obtain income, since a minimum wage is not enough to reach the month. This is one of the ways of "rummage" of many Venezuelans, to get an extra income, the unfortunate thing is that this does not provide a solution if it sinks us more and more into the crisis.