Kazemi, former CEO of the National Petroleum Products Refining and Distribution Company, said: "Low-income groups in society consume more gasoline than high-income groups because their work and jobs require gasoline due to their economic conditions."

According to the experts present on this expert panel, if the situation continues as it is, we will need to import 50 million liters of gasoline in the next three to four years, and this amount may reach 100 million liters in the next 10 years.

Not long ago, Iranian methanol producers raised the issue of producing gasoline from methanol.

The director of the National Petroleum Products Distribution Company in Tehran said: The average daily consumption of gasoline in Tehran is 22 million liters.

An energy expert said: "The energy imbalance in the country is increasing every year, such that gasoline consumption has increased by 50 percent in five years, and a similar situation exists in other energy carriers. It seems that in these circumstances, an energy ministry should be established."

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency pointed out the role of substandard gasoline in air pollution and said: "Some of the gasoline consumed by mobile sources, including cars, does not comply with the national standards approved by the National Standards Organization."

Fatemeh Mohajerani, a spokeswoman for the 14th government, emphasized: "The gasoline imbalance is a serious issue that has two solutions: importing gasoline and managing consumption."

The CEO of the National Iranian Petroleum Refining and Distribution Company announced an increase in production of 8 million liters of gasoline and 7 million liters of oil and gas during the 14th government.

Mohsen Zanganeh, deputy chairman of the 1404 budget bill consolidation committee, said: "The import of gasoline into the country has not been banned according to the approvals of the consolidation committee."

The most important challenges of energy imbalance, centered on "gasoline", were examined in a meeting of economic experts, and emphasis was placed on governance reform and infrastructure development and modernization.