(UTV|COLOMBO) – The Government will cancel permits of filling stations which misuse the kerosene subsidy meant for the poor, Petroleum Resources Development Minister Arjuna Ranathunga said on Thursday (22).
He said the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) had revealed that the some of the petrol filling stations mix kerosene with petrol or diesel and provide them to buses and lorries.
The Minister added that some buses and lorries run on kerosene all along. He said that the addition of kerosene is made outside filling stations in fuel bowsers. This is illegal and has caused an artificial increase in kerosene requirement.
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