Vijayawada: Oil marketing companies own started imposing curbs on present of petrol and diesel to gas stations. At usual times, oil companies love IOC, BPCL and HPCL present virtually seven lakh litres of diesel and four lakh litres of petrol to about 3,500 gas stations all the device by AP per day.
Bharat Petroleum started cutting again present in Visakhapatnam on Thursday, providing gas to a runt different of gas stations and other companies followed dash smartly with. The time of loading of gas to underground tanks at gas stations as been restricted to between 10 am and 3.30 pm towards the earlier 8 am to 6.30 pm.
Oil companies claimed that following the revision of charges, they had been incurring losses attributable to the variation between the price and sale mark to the tune of Rs 25 on diesel per litre and Rs eight on petrol. They said they had been ready to prune present to meet half the inquire.
Sources said that though the oil companies had gas, they had been supplying much less to lower their losses.
P. Ravi Kumar, AP Federation of Petroleum Traders advise smartly-liked secretary, said, “We desire the Centre and the advise govt to arena directions to the oil companies no longer to impose cuts gas present to prevent terror searching for.”
He said, “We attraction to the advise govt to arena directions to the district collectors to video display present of gas as per inquire to lead sure of any shortage.”
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