Due to the policies of price liberalization and removal of subsidies maintained by the government of President Javier Milei, in Salta, bottle prices can reach up to 25 thousand pesos. The “Garrafa Solidaria” program is coming to an end and speculations began to abound.
This was reported in the program, Informate Valle, which is broadcast on Wednesdays from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., on Tele 10, by the Secretary of Citizen Participation, Iván Mizzau.
“We have been talking with the gas companies to analyze the costs of the social bottle because at the national level the program disappeared. “It is a great negative impact for the interior municipalities,” he said. In that same sense, he indicated that like the “Conectate Agua y Gas” programs, they were the first to be defunded.
“The Nation has already stopped sending official resolutions and this new Government is managed with informal communications. All decisions are communicated on time, which generates a lot of misinformation,” he said.
In Salta, there are more than 6,000 people who access the social bottle per week; That is to say, there are about 24 thousand families that buy per month. In December 2023, the bottle cost $6,000 after the new government took office and in just five months, it was worth $10,000. The situation is complex since there are families that require up to two bottles per month to survive.
“Unfortunately the projections are not good, the bottle could cost $25 thousand pesos. In gas alone, a family would have to have $50,000 for the month’s bottles,” she explained.
Mizzau stated that outside the national program, completely unfunded and without information of its existence, they are talking with companies to contain the increase. In any case, the negotiations are truncated without official communications.
The official confirmed to The Tribune that they are “opening a dialogue with companies” about the prices of the bottles to obtain a “differentiated rate.”
“If today they would have to sell the bottles at a free price, without any type of subsidy, we understand that the price would be 25 thousand pesos for 10 kilos. This is due to the costs of transportation and fuel. From the Province we are getting ahead of ourselves to see how we can do so that the impact is not so strong on our families,” Mizzau said.
The answer
The Tribune He consulted the director of one of the gas plants that is installed in our province, José Fernández, about the announcements made by the Salta official. “It is very difficult to make a forecast on prices in the immediate term. We do not know what will happen next month. The only thing we know is that the Solidarity Bottle program has come to an end; however, prices are not released for the plants. We continue selling at 8,200 pesos for a 10 kilo bottle,” said Fernández.
For the businessman, prices are not completely released because the plants continue to maintain a value set by the Government. What is released are the prices in stores where they must already be selling for 25 thousand pesos with the early cold weather of this past May, especially in the most distant places of distribution.
“We do not have any certainty about the prices. The only thing we know is that the Solidarity Carafe ends on July 1, but we do not know how the prices will behave,” Fernández concluded.
