January 17-2014
The government is being urged to import high quality gasoline—gasoline of a standard the Ahmadi-nejad Administration said it was already producing—in order to fight choking pollution. Hossain Hashemi, the new governor-general of Tehran province, clearly doesn’t believe past claims that Iran is refining enough gasoline at the euro-4 standard. (The claims have been dropped by the new Administration.) He called on the government last week to import euro-4 gasoline until Iran can make enough to supply all gasoline stations in the country. Masumeh Ebtekar, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, also has called for euro-4 imports. Euro-4 is the EU gasoline standard adopted in 2005 and replaced by euro-5 in 2008, which will be superceded by euro-6 this year. Euro-4 provides for low amounts of sulfur and benzene in gasoline.
