{"id":192290,"date":"2021-04-16T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/?p=192290"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:59:00","slug":"fuel-prices-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/fuel-prices-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices continue to rise in Lebanon, government blames smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fuel prices in Lebanon continue to rise, while the government attributes the reason for the increase to the activities of smuggling to Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lebanese Minister of Energy and Water, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjWqLTDkIPwAhXM_qQKHVCQDVUQmhMwHXoECBAQAg&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRaymond_Ghajar&amp;usg=AOvVaw2zCQKYhSttzdXvB7wZAPBz\">Raymond Ghajar<\/a>, said that smuggling of fuel to Syria has severely affected prices, \u201cand, therefore, these illegal activities must be put to an end\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon suffers from several crises, most notably the shortage of foreign currency supply and the mad rise in the Lebanese pound. At the same time, inflation has reached record levels in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fuel prices in Lebanon<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghajar&#8217;s speech came after a meeting held by the government, headed by the caretaker prime minister, Hassan Diab, to discuss the fuel crisis, and was attended by all concerned parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said after the meeting: \u201cWe presented the causes of the gasoline crisis, and it became clear to us that the main reason for the scarcity is the smuggling out of Lebanese territory because of the difference in prices between Lebanon and Syria\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghajar added, \u201cthe need in the Syrian market for gasoline drives the Lebanese smugglers to smuggle gasoline into Syria to achieve huge profits, knowing that this it is subsidized by the Lebanese state for Lebanese citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Price control<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said that he solution is to control the prices and not raise the subsidy. The also said that the government will not lift the subsidies soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on the security forces and the Lebanese army to activate checks at the official and unofficial borders to curb smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prices of both 95-octane gasoline and 98 octane raised 100 liras, while the prices of diesel fuel decreased 100 liras while gas decreased 300 liras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, the prices became as follows: gasoline 95 octane at 38,800 liras, gasoline 98 octane at 40,000 liras, diesel at 26,300 liras, and gas at 25,500 liras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/inflation-in-lebanon\/\">inflation in Lebanon<\/a> has jumped to record levels in recent months, adding to the pressure on foreign exchange reserves, which are suffocating day after day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel prices in Lebanon continue to rise, while the government attributes the reason for the increase to the activities of smuggling to Syria. The Lebanese Minister of Energy and Water, Raymond Ghajar, said that smuggling of fuel to Syria has severely affected prices, \u201cand, therefore, these illegal activities must be put to an end\u201d. Lebanon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":192293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[278,616],"class_list":["post-192290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-featured","tag-lebanon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fuel prices continue to rise in Lebanon, government blames smugglers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bnreport - Fuel prices in Lebanon continue to rise, while the government attributes the reason for the activities of smuggling to Syria.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/fuel-prices-in-lebanon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fuel prices continue to rise in Lebanon, government blames smugglers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bnreport - 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