KABUL (SW) – A number of Kabul city car drivers complain about the sale of low-quality oil and say that oil traders sell low-quality oil to drivers at a low price.
Ahmad Shah, a taxi driver in Kabul city, says: “There are three grades of oil sold in pumping stations. One is super, the other is average, and the last one is low quality, which is sold at 75, 70, and low quality at 62 afghanis.”
Sayed Gol, another taxi driver in Kabul city, also says: “I am telling my point of view, no inspection team came to inspect these same gas stations? Who came and did the lab tests? Due to the use of low-quality oil, our cars wear out and develop complications.”
Another number of taxi drivers in Kabul city want the officials of the relevant institutions to control the quality of oil in the markets of the country.
Shekran, a taxi driver in Kabul city, says: “Well, they say that the quality of oil is good, but it is not clear. In my opinion, it is not good, and our cars pollute the air more and are damaged, and all that is the effect of its low quality, and in my opinion, its quality should be 2 or 3.”
City car drivers in Kabul city add that the use of low-quality oil, in addition to polluting the air, also damages the cars.
Officials in the National Standard Administration accept the existence of low-quality oil in oil tanks in the capital, but they say that during the past few months, 300 oil tanks have been closed in Kabul due to the sale of low-quality oil.
Ashiqullah Wazir, the spokesperson of the National Standards Authority, told Salam Watandar about this: “We sealed more than 300 oil reserves in Kabul because they were selling low-quality oil. There are different kinds of things that our citizens say, yes. A95, A92, A80, these are the fuels that are allowed and can be used. But, A92 oil is of high quality and there is an investigation going on in all provinces to reduce low-quality goods and properties.”
Officials in this department added that they have recently returned 76 oil tankers that were imported from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan after inspection at Haritaran port due to low quality.
It should be mentioned that now low-quality petroleum products are widely sold in parts of Kabul city at a low price, but so far, the National Standards Authority has not been able to stop its sale.
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