It is reported that the Petroleum Statutory Corporation has announced that it has decided not to reduce the price of kerosene after it was discovered that private bus owners are misusing the benefit given for the use of kerosene by the poor.
Accordingly, it is stated that the price of kerosene will not be reduced in order to stop the smuggling of kerosene instead of diesel for private buses including long-distance services.
As the price of kerosene has been brought close to the price of diesel, the plantation people have resorted to the use of firewood. It is also reported that it is for this reason that they have decided to sell jet oil to further improve kerosene and earn dollars.