(Photo : I.D. Required for Retailed Gasoline Sale)

In the recent days, the Public Security Bureau, Municipal Economic and Infomatization Commission, the Safety Inspection Bureau and the Administration of Industry and Commerce of Guangdong Province publish an article of , saying that people should provide their Public Security Bureau approved identification to purchase the retailed gasoline.

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The gas station, as defined, is the place where the people refill their motor vehicles by using the machines. No retailed gasoline can be purchased from the gasoline station accordantly. If people need the gasoline for their other productive activities, they should acquire the purchasing order and send it to the Public Security Bureau for verification. The order should state clearly the single use and volumes, etc. The Public Security Bureau will clear the request and sealed then people can purchase the gasoline with the sealed purchasing order.

It is also stated that any gas station that violate the announcement will be listed in the record as inspection target without faith. If the gasoline is misused in any criminal offences, the associated institution, including the gas station, will be sentenced to related penalties.

The announcement affects only to gasoline, exclusively diesel. The journalists talked to some gas stations and learned that the retailed gasoline is a rare situation. If a company needs the gasoline, they can provide their request and signed by the managed. For the driver who runs out of the gas, they can contact with the closest gas station. The station will send the people and the gasoline to the driver, and it is not considered as retailed gasoline sale.

Specialists point out that it is difficult to control the retailed gasoline sale from the gas station since the gas station is the end terminal of the manufacturing line. Retailed gasoline sale may happen at the oil refinery, at the wholesaler, and at the vendors. Gas station is only one of these approaches to get the retailed gasoline.