Mukdahan petrol station caught selling biodiesel slated for export

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Mukdahan petrol station caught selling biodiesel slated for export

By The Nation

 

 

Police and Excise Department officials Monday raided a petrol station in Mukdahan’s Muang district and discovered it was selling some 4,000 litres of a type of biodiesel that is allowed for export only.

 

Police and excise officials checked the biodiesel at the station at 3pm following complaints that it was selling substandard biodiesel.

 

The officials took a sample of the biodiesel from the station’s underground storage to test in a mobile lab and found that it contained 8.2 per cent of methyl esters. 

 

The Excise Department allows biodiesel with no more than 6.7 per cent of methyl esters to be sold in the country. Fuels with higher methyl esters are for export only.

 

The station owner was charged with smuggling oil meant for export to sell in his station without paying excise tax. He was fined Bt160,000 and the oil was seized.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30376289

 

 

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[trainman34014]

And the supplier ?

[tifino]

lucky the Oil seized, before there are engines seized?

[zyphodb]

So they export sub-standard diesel then?

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, zyphodb said:

So they export sub-standard diesel then?

Shove the <deleted> to the neighbors.

[trainman34014]

Turns out one of my Mrs old school friends was caught up in this when her engine blew and the garage that towed it in soon told her what the problem was, so she contacted the Cops.  Apparently they had already recieved multiple complaints from people with the same problems after filling up at this place.