Govt. has stopped purchasing fuel from Iran
The government had stopped purchasing fuel from Iran as a result of the crisis in that region and had gone for alternatives to obtain fuel, Minister of Power and Energy Susil Premajayantha informed Parliament yesterday.
In response to a question raised by Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe in the House today, the Minister said the government had already gone into purchasing Arabian light fuel.
“ We can no longer purchase fuel from Iran because of the crisis,” he said.
The Minister also assured that fuel prices would be reduced the moment the global prices go down as it had been done in previous occasions.
He defended the increase of fuel prices stating that the loss incurred for a litre of furnace oil was Rs.48, while the loss incurred for a litre of kerosene was Rs.30 and Rs.26 for a litre of diesel before the recent price increase.
Responding to the statement made by the opposition leader that the CPC was a profit making venture during the UNP regime, Mr. Premajayantha questioned as to why the regime under Mr. Wickremesinghe sold one third of the CPC to an Indian company if it was running smoothly.
Courtesy: DM Online
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GOSL is wrong in stopping fuel import from Iran, yeilding to US censure on trading with Iran. This would lead to further immense complications including loss of exports to Iran. How foolish of GOSL to do this even when China and India continues to import crude oil from Iran, in defiance of US ban. USA is totally wrong in imposing a unilateral ban without UN approval. Such sanctions has to come through UN. USA cannot dominate the world in this manner and we should not yield to such dominance. We should maintain our sovereignty, our independance to flourish in our best interests.
We should remember that how Iran was helpful to us in crisis situations.
If Sri Lanka is united and democracy rules, then we dont have to yield to western dominance. First of all a united Sri Lanka, the rest is no problem.
When we will going to have our own oil in sri lanka?
The problem will be solved soon as The Knicker-less man, Dias is hard at work inventing machines to run on water! Bravo! It calls for a nomination for a Nobel Prize!