Military government reduced selling oil 50% to people

 

Independent Mon News Agency

September 30, 2004

 

Burmese military government, Minister of Energy (ME) reduced selling oil 50% to the owner of vehicles that registered with the government according to car owners who are routing their car in Southern Burma.

 

“Previous months we received oil from Myanmar Petroleum Products Enterprise (MPPE) under ME everyday before we go for route. But now we only get from MPPE for three days in a week,” said Mr. Nai Hla Man a car owner in Thanpyuzayart township.

 

“We can’t wait the oil from MPPE now. If we wait, we can’t route. Now we buy oil from the public oil seller for routing,” said Mr. Nai Hla Maung who is a member of Sin Pyu Door, a vehicle groups that is routing in Mon State and Karen state.

 

MPPE is an oil company under the military government Minister of Energy and selling oil to the vehicles owner with low price in the whole country.

 

MPPE sells 700 Kyat a gallon to vehicles while the public oil prices reached 1800 Kyat a gallon. For vehicles in Rangoon and special people who closed to government authorities MPPE only sale 180 Kyat a gallon.

 

A motorbike owner, Mi Win said, “in the previous month, MPPE sale four gallons of petrol to a motorbike in a month. They sale only two gallons a month now.” “But why MPPE reduced it, we did not know,” she added.

 

According to MRTV and The Myanmar Times Journal reported on September 27, military government Minister of Energy planned to reduce the need imported oil which is world community facing the crisis.

 

Today oil price is slowly jumping up in side Burma. Last month a tank of diesel oil price was 64,000 Kyat and now it jumped more than 70,000 Kyat a tank in this month according to Mr. U Min Oo an oil seller in Moulmein.

 

Because of oil price jumped up, the cost of traveling in the country also jumped up according to the travelers.

 

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