Bečarević: People and businesses pay for all of Džindić and Hadžialjević's failures

By Almir Bečarević

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After the FBiH Government's decision to increase the price of gas for distribution companies by more than 30% in two months, what could have been predicted is happening, everyone is surprised.
Everyone is surprised, and the answers are simple.

People and businesses pay for all of Nermin Džindić and Bisera Hadžialjević's failures. You switched to TurkStream and promised a 25% lower gas price, and we got over 30% higher in two months. What they continue to lie to citizens about is that the gas was obtained under the same conditions. If it was obtained under the same conditions, why is the price higher, or why will the gas price be even higher from April?

How is it that FBiH only gets 1.2 million Sm3 of gas per day when Sarajevo alone needs that 1.2 million Sm3 during colder periods?

Does this mean that the higher the price of gas, the fewer cubic meters, or has it already been calculated that citizens will give up on gas?
The Canton of Sarajevo spends all its money to subsidize the price of gas. To subsidize the price of gas created by business failures, rather than reporting these failures to all relevant authorities.

I am always in favor of subsidies for vulnerable citizens, not bankers, politicians, directors, etc. Give millions to children, not to gas dilettantes who have destroyed everything they get their hands on.

Is it possible that we have the justification being served to us that there won't be enough gas for everyone, when the gas pipeline capacity is 1.8 million Sm3, and we are expected to believe the story that there is only enough for 1.2 million Sm3. In this polluted city, gas consumption should be increased, not limited.
It is shameful what is being presented to the public to justify the switch to TurkStream, and all the answers are in the invoices that the Energy Committee of the FBiH Parliament is requesting, but they are not being provided.

This is proof of power, because if there were a state that seeks answers (FBiH Parliament) and does not get them, what should that state do, withdraw as in this case?

They say they have secured gas for 2022, but a contract has been concluded for the first 5 months of this year. There are no answers as to why not for the entire 2022 and why the price will continue to rise.

Why don't they answer how the arbitration in Zurich, amounting to millions, will be financed and from what they will pay 21.1 million USD if the case is lost?

All the answers exist, but the police and the Prosecutor's Office are silent, and in the meantime, pay from your own wallet or budget, until the next price increase in April when we will all be surprised again. God willing, oil will drop to 50 USD so that I can be wrong for once.

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The author is a gas expert and advisor to the former director of BH-Gas