85% of Guadalajara gas stations closed due to fuel shortages

Because Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has not been able to comply with the supply of fuel agreed for Jalisco the previous week, the deficit in the hydrocarbon supply remains at 40%.

However, consumer panic purchasing by motorists in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara have caused 85% of the service stations to close, according to the coordinator of the economic cabinet of the state government, Alejandro Guzmán Larralde.

The official said that since the Salamanca-Guadalajara pipeline was reopened to try to normalize the supply this weekend there has been a lot of intermittency in the shipment of fuel and . . .