Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail said the government is pumping more diesel fuel into the market to refute rumors about shortages of the fuel.
This came at a meeting with Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb on Tuesday in the presence of the ministers of trade and industry, planning, supply, electricity, finance, international cooperation and investment to discuss the problem.
Ismail talked about a black market Mafia that deals in diesel fuel like the gangs of the butane gas cylinders.
He said supervision of gas stations would be intensified so that they do not hide the fuel to sell on the black market, adding that school buses would be fueled on location away from gas stations.
“Rumors about hiding the fuel to increase prices are launched only to cause confusion before the economic conference of Sharm el-Sheikh,” he said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
