Those affected by the 'dinner' to which Sánchez invites and pay the gas stations: "We are going to have to ask the bank for a loan"

The chaotic first day with the 20-cent reduction in fuel has saturated service stations and computer systems throughout Spain.

From the sector, however, they consider it more worrying

in volumes that can be around 40,000 euros per month.

Who can not face it, must close.

The bosses have compared it to inviting them to dinner and making the guest pay.

Who makes the invitation is Pedro Sánchez and who puts the wallet, the gas stations, which must advance this discount of 20 cents.

Itzíar Muñoa, a businesswoman in the sector, used a similar metaphor - "it's like saying that I'll invite you to a drink, but the bar pays for it" - to criticize during the first day of discounts that, in the end "brown leaves us to the gas stations themselves".

The problem, in any case, is not so much who pays - the State will do it - but when it does so.

The vehicle through which the fuel discount is transmitted are the gas stations, which charge their fuel once the discount has been made.

In other words, they sell gasoline and diesel at a loss and then - it is still not very clear when -

.

An advance program will also be launched to which it is already possible to sign up, but which will not begin to receive its funds until next week.

"They use us as a vehicle to transmit this bonus to users," summarizes

, president of the Huesca and Aragon provincial associations of Aevecar.

Gallinad also owns a service station in Fraga, a municipality in the province of Huesca.

"It's not that they are poor areas, but it is an area with much less population and there are many agricultural cooperatives with their suppliers," he explains.

"It is another business model than that of a large station in Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia," he points out to contextualize what it can mean to contribute the between 1,000 and 1,500 euros a day that it is estimated that they will have to put, on average, out of their pocket.

If there are delays in payment or if the advances from the Government do not arrive on time, "

", he explains, to meet his own expenses.

And he does not believe that he is the only one in this situation, which, moreover, would force them to pay interest that they cannot collect from the Treasury.

With sarcasm and rhetoric, he wonders what would happen if they were the ones who had to borrow the money from the government.

"It creates a very large debt for us," the businessman complains.

The calculations are not unreasonable: at 20 cents per liter and with gasoline and diesel above 1.81 (according to data from the European Union Petroleum Bulletin for this week), filling a 50-liter tank will cost 90.5 euros .

However, they

.

Each 100 of these clients represent, therefore, 1,000 euros.

"There are companies that have lungs to hold on, but others don't," Gallinad denounces before pointing out what many would sign: "I'd rather owe you 100,000 euros than you owe me."

Another of the complaints repeated in the sector is the rush and improvisation with which the measure, approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, seems to have been taken.

Between the announcement and the last fringes, barely a day and a half to prepare the computer systems - totally lost - and the impossibility of requesting an advance from the Government

.

Hopefully it will arrive next week.

"It's a very sensitive issue, because it's a lot of money," recalls the Aevecar director, who understands the measure and even shares it - "we are delighted that it is subsidized, because the cheaper the product, the more we benefit: that give 20, no; give them 40!" -, but not so much the forms.

"That we are the ones who have to advance that money

," he lamented.

He understands, therefore, that there are those who have decided to close on the busiest day of the year so far.

In their case, they opened, albeit a little later to make sure there were enough workers.

Despite the fact that there has been "more influx and with more refueling", they have not had major problems.

Regarding the calculation of the 1,000 euros per day, he sees it as "very possible", especially considering that sales are increasing and Easter is approaching.

In any case, he appreciates it after several days with hardly any movement while waiting for the discount: "I hope people circulate, we'll level things as well as we can."

After the initial blow, Gallinad hopes that there will be "fluidity" between the Administration and the gas stations so that the advance of the 20 cents is paid quickly.

"What we can't bear is €50,000 or €100,000 with no money-back guarantee," he describes.

"Let's see, we're talking about the Treasury, but

," he complains.

"We are talking about a lot of money and the money that many families and their workers need to live on," he says from his only service station.

"When you have a brand like Repsol, Cepsa or BP on you, they think that we are riding on the dollar, but that is not the case: we are families with our workers."

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