中国石化新闻网讯 据委内瑞拉《石油世界》(Petroleumworld )8月6日加拉加斯报道,委内瑞拉周五开始对全国汽车拥有者进行一次全面普查,委内瑞拉政府表示,此举将有助于确定燃料“合理的”使用,但批评人士警告说,此举可能导致这个饱受危机困扰的欧佩克成员国实行汽油定量配给。
在委内瑞拉,燃料短缺已是家常便饭。委内瑞拉连续第五年出现严重经济衰退,导致国内炼油厂停产以及石油产量大幅下降。
委内瑞拉总统马杜罗上周末表示,委内瑞拉需要“合理”使用燃料,而普查是“解决这一问题的重要手段”。执政党的一名高级官员还提议提高高补贴燃料的价格。委内瑞拉的燃料是世界上最便宜的燃料。
委内瑞拉政府计划的细节公布很少,委内瑞拉信息部没有回复记者的置评请求,但委内瑞拉人担心此次普查可能会为今后限制汽油销售创造条件。
李峻 编译自 石油世界
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Venezuela to ration gasoline, begins car censusCARACAS
Venezuela on Friday began a census of car owners, a move the socialist government says will help determine a “rational” use of fuel but critics warn could lead to rationing in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation.
Fuel shortages are already frequent in Venezuela, where a fifth straight year of a brutal recession has led to refinery outages and steep falls in oil production.
President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend said Venezuela needed “rational” gas use and that a census was “the answer to that.” One top party official also proposed increasing the price of highly subsidized fuel, the world's cheapest.
Details of the government's plans are scarce and the Information Ministry did not respond to a request for comment, but Venezuelans have fretted that the census could be setting the stage for more restrictive gasoline sales.