Isam Bayazidi’s Blog

I was not really surprised when I read today’s Alghad headline about the the diesel produced by the Jordan Petroleum Refinery (which is having a monopoly of petroleum fuel until 2008) against the Jordanian standards for diesel. The Jordanian standards says that a 1KG of diesel should have no more than 350 milligram of Sulfur, while Jordanian diesel have 10,000-11,000 milligrams (no wonder diesel vehicles in Jordan are known to have extremely black smoke). I kind never had doubts that the Jordanian standards are the problems, problem is always in implementing those standards. Now the funny/sad part is that they are given until 2008 to fix that error, while the refinery officials said that they are unable to comply with the standards because of the high costs of having extra filters.

Recently, diesel had a price hike of around 25%.. only if a small part of that is given to the refinery to have those filters and allow us to have some cleaner air. I guess that our lungs does not have a high priority.

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