Metin Deidari said: According to the investigations carried out, the Chinese plans to convert methanol into gasoline are not feasible in Iran.
A member of the Energy Commission of the Islamic Parliament said: "A targeted comment has been made with last year's rates, and the government should not have a plan to increase the price of gasoline or increase it to three rates."
One of the environmental issues that has always been the subject of debate among experts is the quality of gasoline, but now the news of the possibility of producing Euro 5 gasoline in one of the country's refineries has been published in the media.
The deputy oil minister said: I believe that the added value created from the products produced at the end of the methanol chain is more economical, but the closest way to prevent crude sales and methanol exports and to prevent gasoline imbalances in the country is to implement MTG plans.
While concerns about the quality of gasoline produced from methanol are increasing, petrochemicals are happy that 50% of petrochemical producers are dedicated to this issue, they are not even willing to inform about the quality and method of producing gasoline from methanol.
A member of the Energy Commission of the Iranian Parliament said: Maybe someone does not want to own a car or does not have a license or prefers to use a public vehicle, so there is no need to allocate fuel to people.
Ahmad Alireza Begi believes that the government wants to increase the price of gasoline, but it does not take this risk due to the lack of necessary social capital and the closeness of the presidential elections.
The secretary of the Iranian Petrochemical Employers Association said: Many industries are complaining about why the propylene market is so chaotic; The problem is that due to the lack of naphtha, the production and supply of propylene and polypropylene has decreased.
Examining the second part of the 2024 budget bill shows that the government's forecast of oil sales in 2024 is one million barrels per day.
Referring to the import of two billion dollars of gasoline last year, the chairman of the parliament's program and budget committee announced the forecast of a budget deficit of 300 hemtas for 1403.