Tehran Moves to Tighten Gasoline Consumption

The Daily Star – Iran said Friday that it would stop importing gasoline in September and begin rationing it, ironic for a country that is OPEC’s number-two exporter of crude oil. “As there is nothing provisioned for petrol imports in the second half of this year’s budget … the imports will naturally stop and petrol will be rationed,” Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said on state television.

The minister said imports will end from September 23, and that the government will decide at a meeting next week when to begin the rationing.

Iran’s refineries have a capacity of 40 million liters of gasoline a day, but demand is close to 70 million liters.
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