MOL and Shell have temporarily restricted the amount of fuel that can be purchased at their petrol stations in Slovenia due to surging demand, the companies announced on Wednesday.
According to MOL, private individuals are limited to 30 litres, while legal entities and lorries may purchase up to 200 litres.
The firm attributed the decision to an extraordinary surge in demand over the past two weeks, exacerbated by stockpiling purchases and cross-border fuel tourism. The measure, they said, is intended to safeguard supply security and avert shortages.
MOL described the restriction as precautionary, aimed at preventing a repeat of the logistical disruption on 9 March, when heightened demand left stations unable to meet requirements.
Shell has introduced its own limits, capping single purchases at retail stations at 100 litres, while no such restrictions currently apply at pumps reserved for lorries.
The market leader Petrol has so far refrained from similar steps.
The Slovenian government cut excise duties on fuels earlier this month, rendering prices lower than in some neighbouring countries. Data from the Slovenian motorists’ association (AMZS) show 95-octane petrol now at €1.466 per litre (around 554 Hungarian forints), and diesel at €1.528 (around 578 forints).
Energy Minister Bojan Kumer said on Tuesday that the government plans a further excise duty reduction, though fuel price rises are nonetheless expected next week.
If you missed our articles concerning MOL:
- Looming fuel shortage in Hungary? Oil reserves at historic low, quantity limits introduced
- Hungarian MOL searches for oil at Lake Balaton from the sky
Has Orban already sent his thanks to his guardian angel for the rising prices and worldwide chaos?
https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/trading-commodities/brent-crude-oil
And what about gas?
https://de.investing.com/commodities/ice-dutch-ttf-gas-c1-futures
The Russians will be pleased to have two such successful allies, USA and Hungary, who are unconcerned about tens of thousands of dead.
Perhaps Orban could be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I suggest you take a moment to familiarize yourself with the regime of those backward clerical scoundrels in Iran! Then just look up how many of their own population they have slaughtered and the number of deaths they caused by sponsoring global terrorism!!In Belgium, we also had to deal with this when brainwashed Muslim extremists blew themselves up with suicide belts at the national airport and Maalbeek metro station in Brussels on March 22, 2016! In this, 32 innocent civilians lost their lives, including several children! Hundreds were injured and many maimed for the rest of their lives! The bastards had also brought suitcases filled with explosives and nails! You can find the footage of the devastation on YouTube!Finally, one more thing! You are responding under a pseudonym, and this says a lot about you! Karl May was not without controversy either, by the way! Should you respond, do not forget the flag of the Russian Federation, as it was prominently displayed last time! So pathetically meaningless, but above all, clichéd!
The evaluation of the Iranian system is a different matter. But if you only see things in black and white, as simply good and bad, you have a big problem! As the saying goes, every coin has two sides! What do I mean by that?
No one denies that the regime is inhumane, but there’s no need to support an idiotic measure that only makes everything worse and renders a solution practically impossible.
Intelligence isn’t a matter of brute strength! Even Trump, with his inhumane approach, can’t invalidate this age-old truth.
That should make my position clear to everyone here. I will no longer respond to veiled insinuations.
PS Of course, you can call me Hugo Wils if you like. Names are just names, nothing more!